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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



... wasn't worth it she could have let him go. And the family! Think of their accepting his proposal in silence. Why, can they even be married, Henry, without some process ...
— A Touch Of Sun And Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote
... a day or two, the Captain was missed, and everyone marvelled what was become of him. Mr. Philpot thought he must have been exploring a river, and fallen in and got drowned in the process. Mr. Firedamp had no doubt he had been crossing a mountain bog, and had been suddenly deprived of life by the exhalations of marsh miasmata. Mr. Henbane deemed it probable that he had been tempted in some wood by the large black brilliant berries of the Atropa ...
— Crotchet Castle • Thomas Love Peacock
... instrument of the hands or of the other organs have carried out the behest. The thing is done before it is done when the man has resolved, with a fixed will, to do it. The betrayal was as good as in process, though no step beyond the introductory ones, which could easily have been cancelled, had yet been accomplished. Because there was a fixed purpose which could not be altered by anything now, therefore Jesus Christ regards the act as completed. It is what we think in our hearts that we are; and ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. John Chapters I to XIV • Alexander Maclaren
... "To be carried along by somebody's suggestions from the time you begin until the time when you are thrust groping and helpless into the world, is the very negation of education. By the nursing process, by the coddling process you are sapping a race; and only loss can possibly result except upon the part of individuals here and there who are so intrinsically strong that you ...
— Library Work with Children • Alice I. Hazeltine
... Horus became assimilated with him. When the belief became more and more insistent that the dead king had acquired the boon of immortality and was really alive, the distinction between him and the actually living king Horus became correspondingly minimized. This process of assimilation was advanced a further stage when the king became a god and was thus more closely identified with his father and predecessor. Hence Horus assumed many of the functions of Osiris; and amongst ...
— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith


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