progress vs regress

progress and regress both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
progress	Yes	No	Yes	No
regress	Yes	No	Yes	No

progress (noun)	regress (noun)
the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)	returning to a former state
gradual improvement or growth or development	the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
a movement forward

progress (verb)	regress (verb)
develop in a positive way	go back to bad behavior
form or accumulate steadily	get worse or fall back to a previous condition
move forward, also in the metaphorical sense	go back to a previous state
	go back to a statistical means