process
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English proces, from Old French procés (“journey”), from Latin prōcessus (“course, progression”), nominalization of prōcēdō (“proceed, advance”).
Inflected forms:
form: processes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: processes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: processing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: processed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: processed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A series of events leading to a result or product.
pos: noun
examples: This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
But they came up against an impressive force in Bayern, who extended their run to 10 wins on the trot, having scored 28 goals in the process and conceding none.
Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […] In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
For each of the schemes discussed, there is the four-stage process of planning, funding, delivery and operations, in which the various parties involved might be the lead, a partner or an influencer.
gloss: The set of procedures used in the manufacture of a product, especially in the food and chemical industries.
pos: noun
examples: 1960, Mack Tyner, Process Engineering Calculations: Material and Energy Balances – Ordinarily a process plant will use a steam boiler to supply its process heat requirements and to drive a steam-turbine generator.
1987, J. R. Richards, Principles of control system design in Modelling and control of fermentation processes – The words plant or process infer generally any dynamic system, be it primarily mechanical, electrical, or chemical process in nature, and may extend also to include social or economic systems.
gloss: A path or succession of states through which a system passes.
pos: noun
examples: We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
gloss: Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
pos: noun
gloss: Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
pos: noun
examples: But if either at Calling by the Clerk, after the Session Bell, or before the Ordinary by the Roll, an Advocat compears, and craves to be Marked for the Defender, and to see the Process; The Clerk in the first Case, and the Judge in the second, will allow him to see it
gloss: An outgrowth of tissue arising above a surface, such as might form part of a joint or the attachment point for a muscle.
pos: noun
gloss: An executable task or program.
pos: noun
gloss: The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.
pos: noun
gloss: To perform a particular process on a thing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Processing the harvested cocoons begins with grading and then boiling them in soapy water to soften the sericin that binds the fibers together.
gloss: To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We have processed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions.
If you process you own digital files, it's as time consuming, or maybe even more time consuming, than it is to process and print your own film.
CBP told CNN it currently processes “nearly 4 million duty-free de minimis shipments a day.”
gloss: To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: I didn't know she had a criminal record. That will take me a while to process.
gloss: To develop photographic film.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To take legal proceedings against.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When I saw that he would not let me alone, I processed him for £12. My mother was with his brother John, and he allowed her six guineas for clothes; and if she did not want the money, he would allow it to me in the rent, and I made him pay that when he would not leave me alone.
Related words: proceed
procedure
Derived words: autoprocess
bioprocess
geoprocess
hydroprocess
lyoprocess
misprocess
overprocess
photoprocess
postprocess
preprocess
processability
processable
processed
processible
processor
reprocess
subprocess
underprocess
unprocessability
wordprocess
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