Associations to the word «Regress»
Noun
Wiktionary
REGRESS, noun. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
REGRESS, noun. The power or liberty of passing back.
REGRESS, verb. (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
REGRESS, verb. (transitive) (statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
Dictionary definition
REGRESS, noun. The reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence.
REGRESS, noun. Returning to a former state.
REGRESS, verb. Go back to a statistical means.
REGRESS, verb. Go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules".
REGRESS, verb. Get worse or fall back to a previous condition.
REGRESS, verb. Go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals".
Wise words
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe.
Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with
things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.