Edit and Progress

edit

Prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting.
- usage: "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"
- synonyms: redact
Supervise the publication of.
- usage: "The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years"
Cut and assemble the components of.
- usage: "edit film"; "cut recording tape"
- synonyms: cut, edit out
Cut or eliminate.
- usage: "she edited the juiciest scenes"
- synonyms: blue-pencil, delete

(v.t.) To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Edit is a feminine given name

progress

Gradual improvement or growth or development.
- usage: "advancement of knowledge"; "great progress in the arts"
- synonyms: advancement
The act of moving forward (as toward a goal.
- synonyms: progression, procession, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion
A movement forward.
- usage: "he listened for the progress of the troops"
- synonyms: progression, advance

Develop in a positive way.
- usage: "He progressed well in school"; "My plants are coming along"; "Plans are shaping up"
- synonyms: come on, come along, advance, get on, get along, shape up
Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense.
- usage: "Time marches on"
- synonyms: advance, pass on, move on, march on, go on
Form or accumulate steadily.
- usage: "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly"; "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"
- synonyms: build up, work up, build

(n.) Toward ideal completeness or perfection in respect of quality or condition; -- applied to individuals, communities or the race; as, social, moral, religious or political progress.
(n.) In business of any kind; as, the progress of a negotiation; the progress of art.
(v.i.) To make improvement; to advance.
(v.i.) To make progress; to move forward in space; to continue onward in course; to proceed; to advance; to go on; as, railroads are progressing.
(n.) A journey of state; a circuit; especially, one made by a sovereign through parts of his own dominions.
(n.) In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
(n.) A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance.
(n.) In knowledge; in proficiency; as, the progress of a child at school.
(n.) In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc.
(v.t.) To make progress in; to pass through.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary