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Process   /prˈɑsˌɛs/  /prˈɔsˌɛs/   Listen
Process

noun
1.
A particular course of action intended to achieve a result.  Synonym: procedure.  "It was a process of trial and error"
2.
(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents.  Synonyms: cognitive operation, cognitive process, mental process, operation.  "The cognitive operation of remembering"
3.
A writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant.  Synonym: summons.
4.
A mental process that you are not directly aware of.  Synonym: unconscious process.
5.
A natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant.  Synonyms: appendage, outgrowth.
6.
A sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states.  Synonym: physical process.  "The process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"
verb
1.
Subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition.  Synonym: treat.  "Process hair" , "Treat the water so it can be drunk" , "Treat the lawn with chemicals" , "Treat an oil spill"
2.
Deal with in a routine way.  "Process a loan" , "Process the applicants"
3.
Perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information.
4.
Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against.  Synonyms: action, litigate, sue.  "She actioned the company for discrimination"
5.
March in a procession.  Synonym: march.
6.
Shape, form, or improve a material.  Synonyms: work, work on.  "Process iron" , "Work the metal"
7.
Deliver a warrant or summons to someone.  Synonyms: serve, swear out.



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"Process" Quotes from Famous Books



... regulations, divides it into twelve shires, and, in short, reduces it into the same order in which it stands at this day; differing from the kingdom of England in only a few particulars, and those too of the nature of privileges, (such as having courts within itself, independent of the process of Westminster hall) and some other immaterial peculiarities, hardly more than are to be found in many ...
— Commentaries on the Laws of England - Book the First • William Blackstone

... that I have never gone through the somewhat laborious process of minutely comparing the Revisers' text with the text of Westcott and Hort, but I cannot help thinking that the example I have chosen is a typical one, and does show the sort of relations between the two texts, when what ...
— Addresses on the Revised Version of Holy Scripture • C. J. Ellicott

... undertaking, they were willing to engage persons from Italy, acquainted with the method of feeding the worms and winding the thread from the cocoons, to go over with the settlers, and instruct them in the whole process. And they intended to recommend it strongly to the emigrants to use their utmost skill and diligence in the culture of mulberry trees, and the prompt attention to the purpose to which their leaves were to be applied; so that, in due time the nation might receive such remittances ...
— Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe • Thaddeus Mason Harris

... invading sand. The sphynx, buried almost up to the head, till the French cleared her down to the back, attested equally the desolating progress of this mighty sand-flood."—"And if we turn to the valley of the Nile of Egypt, we shall see at this moment the very process going on by which the lower part of the Niger, or Nile of Bornou has been choked up and obliterated by the invasion of the Great Sahara, under the names of the desarts of Bilmah and Lybia. Thus has been rubbed out from ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 14, Issue 398, November 14, 1829 • Various

... made by the fishermen, but now the process is a more scientific one, and the prince of this special industry is the celebrated ...
— The Waif of the "Cynthia" • Andre Laurie and Jules Verne


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