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PROCEEDS
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
Example:
the average return was about 5%
Synonyms:
issue; payoff; proceeds; return; take; takings; yield
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("proceeds" is a kind of...):
income (the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "proceeds"):
economic rent; rent (the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions)
payback (financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb proceed
Context examples:
He proceeds at his own risk.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
They have no fondness for their colts or foals, but the care they take in educating them proceeds entirely from the dictates of reason.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Since retinal vascular development proceeds from the optic nerve to the ora serrata, the zones are centered on the optic disc rather than the macula.
(Immature Retinal Vasculature, NICHD)
One day (they had grub-staked themselves from the proceeds of the raft and left Dawson for the head-waters of the Tanana) the men and dogs were sitting on the crest of a cliff which fell away, straight down, to naked bed-rock three hundred feet below.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Biosynthesis of GPI anchors proceeds in three stages: (i) preassembly of a GPI precursor in the ER membrane, (ii) attachment of the GPI to the C-terminus of a newly synthesized protein in the lumen of the ER, and (iii) lipid remodeling and/or carbohydrate side-chain modifications in the ER and the Golgi.
(Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-Anchor Biosynthesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
A form of programmed cell death that begins when a cell receives internal or external signals, then proceeds through a series of characteristic stages typically including rounding-up of the cell, retraction of pseudopods, reduction of cellular volume (pyknosis), chromatin condensation, nuclear fragmentation (karyorrhexis), and plasma membrane blebbing, and ends with the death of the cell.
(Apoptosis, NCI Thesaurus)
At this point the alternative pathway proceeds in the same manner as the classical pathway, recruiting additional complement factors (C6, C7, C8 and C9) to ultimately form the membrane attack complex and lyse the associated cell.
(Alternative Complement Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
That processing proceeds step-by-step into higher-level features, such as the source of the sound production (for example, whether the sounds are produced by speech) and the identity of the person or thing producing the sound.
(Understanding how the brain makes sense of sound, National Science Foundation)
As a matter of fact, burglars who have done a good stroke of business are, as a rule, only too glad to enjoy the proceeds in peace and quiet without embarking on another perilous undertaking.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She was born in a rural district of England, where life proceeds by rule of thumb and the unexpected is so very unexpected that when it happens it is looked upon as an immorality.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
