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process
[ pros-es; especially British proh-ses ]
noun
- a systematic series of actions directed to some end:
to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
Synonyms: operation
- a continuous action, operation, or series of changes taking place in a definite manner:
the process of decay.
- Law.
- the summons, mandate, or writ by which a defendant or thing is brought before court for litigation.
- the whole course of the proceedings in an action at law.
- Photography. photomechanical or photoengraving methods collectively.
- Biology, Anatomy. a natural outgrowth, projection, or appendage:
a process of a bone.
- the action of going forward or on.
- the condition of being carried on.
- course or lapse, as of time.
verb (used with object)
- to treat or prepare by some particular series of actions, as in manufacturing.
- to handle (papers, records, etc.) by systematically organizing them, recording or making notations on them, following up with appropriate action, or the like:
to process mail.
- to mentally or emotionally deal with and make sense of:
Cognitive therapy can be helpful in processing traumatic events and experiences.
The disease affects the brain's ability to process bodily sensations.
- to require (someone) to answer questionnaires, perform various tasks, and sometimes to undergo physical and aptitude classification examinations before the beginning or termination of a period of service:
The army processes all personnel entering or leaving the service.
- to convert (an agricultural commodity) into marketable form by a special series of steps, as pasteurization.
- to institute a legal process against; prosecute.
- to serve a process or summons on.
- Computers. to carry out operations on (data or programs).
verb (used without object)
- to deal with something mentally or emotionally and make sense of it:
That movie completely blew me away—I’m still processing a week later.
- to undergo administrative activities involved in hiring or firing personnel, organizing and reviewing information to make a decision, etc.:
The recruits are expected to process in four days.
Your application for admission is still processing, but you should hear from us shortly.
adjective
- prepared or modified by an artificial process or procedure:
process cheese.
- noting, pertaining to, or involving photomechanical or photoengraving methods:
a process print.
- Informal. of or relating to hair that has been conked, or chemically straightened.
- Movies. created by or used in process cinematography:
a moving background on a process screen.
process
1/ ˈprəʊsɛs /
noun
- a series of actions that produce a change or development
the process of digestion
- a method of doing or producing something
- a forward movement
- the course of time
- a summons, writ, etc, commanding a person to appear in court
- the whole proceedings in an action at law
- a natural outgrowth or projection of a part, organ, or organism
- a distinct subtask of a computer system which can be regarded as proceeding in parallel with other subtasks of the system
- modifier relating to the general preparation of a printing forme or plate by the use, at some stage, of photography
- modifier denoting a film, film scene, shot, etc, made by techniques that produce unusual optical effects
verb
- to subject to a routine procedure; handle
- to treat or prepare by a special method, esp to treat (food) in order to preserve it
to process cheese
- to institute legal proceedings against
- to serve a process on
- photog
- to develop, rinse, fix, wash, and dry (exposed film, etc)
- to produce final prints or slides from (undeveloped film)
- computing to perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information
- to prepare (food) using a food processor
process
2/ prəˈsɛs /
verb
- intr to proceed in or as if in a procession
Pronunciation Note
Other Words From
- pro·ces·su·al [pro-, sesh, -oo-, uh, l, proh-], adjective
- o·ver·proc·ess verb (used with object)
- pre·proc·ess verb
- re·proc·ess verb (used with object)
- sem·i·proc·essed adjective
- trans·proc·ess noun
- un·proc·essed adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of process1
Origin of process2
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
We had a lot of new rules to process, there were a lot of positive tests and there was a fear factor for people who were flying again.
It’s the process of optimizing your video to be indexed so that it ranks on the results pages for keyword searches.
So this should make the process of responding to customers easier for some businesses.
The process to become CPSC certified involves tests that are largely based on ones created in the 1950s by the Snell Memorial Foundation.
Unfortunately, getting the most out of your PPC bidding can be a tricky process, to say the least.
In the process, we get straightjacketed into emotionally distant, competitive lives.
Or how much richer a few rich Mexicans are going to get in the process?
Then we all have to do our part to engage the officers and our community, and hold everyone accountable in the process.
“The process of getting the approval is too slow and is too cumbersome,” Rogers said.
The process of co-opting black music and selling it back to the adoring public in whiteface is as American as apple pie.
On certain of the stems the fertile cone appears and the spores are ripened about June, after which the process withers.
By the second process, it is made to the advantage of the issuer of the notes to hasten their withdrawal himself.
The quickening of one part of the process necessitated the "speeding up" of all the others.
That, too, is a process which in this changing new world of ours can never be completed.
A smile of beatitude spread over his enormous countenance during the process.
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