Process
['prəʊses] or ['prɑsɛs]
Definition
(noun.) a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states; 'events now in process'; 'the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls'.
(noun.) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; 'a bony process'.
(noun.) (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; 'the process of thinking'; 'the cognitive operation of remembering'.
(noun.) a mental process that you are not directly aware of; 'the process of denial'.
(verb.) subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; 'process cheese'; 'process hair'; 'treat the water so it can be drunk'; 'treat the lawn with chemicals' ; 'treat an oil spill'.
(verb.) perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information; 'The results of the elections were still being processed when he gave his acceptance speech'.
(verb.) deal with in a routine way; 'I'll handle that one'; 'process a loan'; 'process the applicants'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.
(n.) A series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature.
(n.) A statement of events; a narrative.
(n.) Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.
(n.) The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; -- a generic term for writs of the class called judicial.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Course, progress.[2]. Operation, procedure, proceeding, action, performance, step, transaction, measure, conduct, management, series of measures, mode of operation.[3]. (Law.) Suit, trial, action, case.[4]. (Anat.) Projection, protuberance.
Editor: Mary
Definition
n. a gradual progress: manner of acting or happening: operation: the whole proceedings in an action or prosecution: series of measures: a projection on a bone or plant (also Proces′sus): the same as photo-process the reproduction as a drawing &c. by any mechanical (esp. photographic) process: (Shak.) a narrative account.—v.t. to proceed against by legal process: to produce a reproduction of a drawing as above.—n. Proc′ess-serv′er (Shak.) a bailiff.
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Examples
- Such is the process by which the youth passes from the necessary pleasures to the unnecessary. Plato. The Republic.
- Now she was simply ripening into a copy of her mother, and mysteriously, by the very process, trying to turn him into a Mr. Welland. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Always, also, it may be well to bear in mind that by the word 'creation' the zoologist means 'a process he knows not what. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- There is an activity in process; one is taken up with the development of a theme. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Again, let us see how the democratical man grows out of the oligarchical: the following, as I suspect, is commonly the process. Plato. The Republic.
- De Chardonnet’s Process of Making Artificial Silk. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Thus, by this simple and beautiful process, the party is informed that his mother is dead, and he weeps. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- What are known as the soda-pulp and the sulphite processes are examples of this. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But even thus early the stronger love of mechanical processes and of probing natural forces manifested itself. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He understood the various processes of handling wool and cotton, although his own work lay outside them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Inventions and discoveries in the field of surgery relate not only to instrumentalities but processes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The alchemists sought to discover processes whereby one metal might be transmuted into another. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- One of the most important and lucrative industrial processes of the world to-day is that of staining and dyeing. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They had reduced the force of earlier times by making larger quantities by better processes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Hog hair would probably not appeal to the average person as being a thing of particular value, but it is processed so as to make the finished product worth as much as the meat itself. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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