The difference between Ingress and Regress
When used as nouns, ingress means the act of entering, whereas regress means the act of passing back.
When used as verbs, ingress means to intrude or insert oneself, whereas regress means to move backwards to an earlier stage.
check bellow for the other definitions of Ingress and Regress
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Ingress as a noun:
The act of entering.
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Ingress as a noun:
Permission to enter.
Examples:
"All ingress was prohibited."
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Ingress as a noun:
A door or other means of entering.
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Ingress as a noun (astronomy):
The entrance of the Moon into the shadow of the Earth in eclipses, or the Sun's entrance into a sign, etc.
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Ingress as a verb (intransitive):
To intrude or insert oneself
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Ingress as a verb (transitive, US, chiefly, _, military):
To enter (a specified location or area)
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Ingress as a verb (intransitive, astrology, of a planet):
To enter into a zodiacal sign
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Ingress as a verb (Whiteheadian, _, metaphysics):
To manifest or cause to be manifested in the temporal world; to effect ingression
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Regress as a noun:
The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
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Regress as a noun:
The power or liberty of passing back.
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Regress as a noun:
In property law, the right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
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Regress as a verb (intransitive):
To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
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Regress as a verb (intransitive, astronomy):
To move from east to west.
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Regress as a verb (transitive, statistics):
To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
Examples:
"When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those of Y."