What is the difference between ...

Mình muốn có một chỗ để hỏi một số từ có nghĩa gần nhau. Bắt đầu là:

1. procedure vs proceedings



Your insight is appreciated.

Hi there,

Procedure is a very popular, so you better stick to it and forget about the other, which is likely for the experts. Besides, proceedings is more like a legal term.

Anyway, use procedure when there's a series of steps you have to do as a correct way to do something, while proceedings is also a series of things, but just in general, and they are not followed step by step, they just happen one after another at a certain place or occasion.

Trong ngữ cảnh nào ?????


http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/proceedings


http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/procedure

Apparently you don't approve my answer. Correct it, please!

Apparently you did not understand my post.

I believe we should compare those two words (or may be three by adding Process) in the context of "a series of actions/steps". I checked several sources like Merriam-Webster, Reference.com, etc. But the sources give us different explanations to some extent. It seems those words are interchangeable in some context but not in other. Quite confusing.

@all I raised the question trying to find an clear cut explanation or correct/accepted usage of those words. But it also gives us an oppotunity to use English (writing/word usage) in a some how advanced way. That why I did not cite (copy/paste) available explanation from other sources. I appreciate your insight in your own words. That helps us all in many ways. We are no lexiconist, then mistake is inevitable. But that is why we join this forum. Thank you.

I would use procedure in that context.

I have never heard of anyone using proceedings in place of procdure in the context, especially in technical documentation. But it does not mean it can't be used.

As for process, I have not heard it used to describe in detail series of steps. But it doesn't mean people don't use it to describe procedure. However, I have heard it used to indicate a "general" way to produce, make some thing.

I guess we all have a lot more to learn about English.

"Tự phát" ơi, i think we should differentiate these above words as followed

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Process
Process (lat. processus - movement) is a naturally occurring or designed sequence of changes of properties or attributes of an object or system. More precisely, and from the most general systemic perspective, every process is representable as a particular trajectory (or part thereof) in a system's phase space.

Proceedings means events, or the minutes of a formal meeting. In conferences, the proceedings are written record that includes the papers and the presentations given. In a legal sense, “proceedings” means that what happens in a court of law to settle a dispute.