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Definition of Process
1. Verb. Subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition. "Treat an oil spill"
Specialized synonyms: Propagate, Iodise, Iodize, Nitrate, Tank, Aerate, Oxygenate, Oxygenise, Oxygenize, Mercerise, Mercerize, Malt, Fluoridate, Fluoridise, Fluoridize, Creosote, Chlorinate, Carbonate, Camphorate, Bromate, Brominate, Ammoniate, Irradiate, Ray, Scald, Refine, Nitrify, Nitrogenise, Nitrogenize, Reverberate, Curry, Seed, Dose, Sulfur, Sulphur, Vulcanise, Vulcanize, Chrome, Bituminise, Bituminize, Agenise, Agenize, Run, Carboxylate, Beneficiate, Digest, Fume, Fumigate, Air-condition
Generic synonyms: Affect, Bear On, Bear Upon, Impact, Touch, Touch On
Derivative terms: Processing, Processor, Processor, Treatment
2. Noun. A particular course of action intended to achieve a result. "It was a process of trial and error"
Specialized synonyms: Bertillon System, Fingerprinting, Genetic Fingerprinting, Genetic Profiling, Diagnostic Procedure, Diagnostic Technique, Emergency Procedure, Experimental Procedure, Calculation, Computation, Computing, Medical Procedure, Chromosome Mapping, Mapping, Operating Procedure, Stiffening, Indirection, Rigamarole, Rigmarole, Modus Operandi, Routine, Condition, Experimental Condition, Formula, Rule
Generic synonyms: Activity
Derivative terms: Procedural, Proceed
3. Verb. Deal with in a routine way. "Process the applicants"
4. Noun. (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents. "The cognitive operation of remembering"
Generic synonyms: Cognition, Knowledge, Noesis
Specialized synonyms: Basic Cognitive Process, Higher Cognitive Process
Category relationships: Psychological Science, Psychology
Derivative terms: Operate
5. 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"
Derivative terms: Processor
6. Noun. 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.
Generic synonyms: Judicial Writ, Writ
Specialized synonyms: Citation, Monition, Process Of Monition, Ticket
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Derivative terms: Summons
7. Verb. Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against. "They process to move "; "She actioned the company for discrimination"
Generic synonyms: Challenge
Specialized synonyms: Expedite
Related verbs: Litigate
Derivative terms: Action, Actionable, Litigation, Suer, Suit
8. Noun. A mental process that you are not directly aware of. "The process of denial"
Generic synonyms: Cognition, Knowledge, Noesis
Specialized synonyms: Sleep Talking, Somniloquism, Somniloquy, Condensation, Defence, Defence Mechanism, Defence Reaction, Defense, Defense Mechanism, Defense Reaction
9. Verb. March in a procession. "The children process to the playground"; "They processed into the dining room"
Generic synonyms: Walk
Specialized synonyms: File, Parade, Promenade, Troop, Goose Step, Countermarch, Debouch, March Out
Derivative terms: March, March, Marching
10. Noun. A natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant. "A bony process"
Specialized synonyms: Horn, Horn, Crest, Pseudopod, Pseudopodium, Flagellum, Hair, Cirrus, Spine, Aculea, Style, Villus, Tail, Fetlock, Tentacle, Arista, Acromial Process, Acromion, Ala, Alveolar Arch, Alveolar Process, Alveolar Ridge, Gum Ridge, Acrosome, Caruncle, Caruncula, Condyle, Coronoid Process, Processus Coronoideus, Epicondyle, Fimbria, Apophysis, Spicule, Spiculum, Osteophyte, Papilla, Papilla, Appendix, Cecal Appendage, Vermiform Appendix, Vermiform Process, Mastoid, Mastoid Bone, Mastoid Process, Mastoidal, Styloid Process, Pterygoid Process, Eminence, Tubercle, Tuberosity, Zygomatic Process, Trochanter, Transverse Process, Odontoid Process, Metaphysis, Olecranon, Olecranon Process, Ridge, Excrescence, Papilla, Enation, Plant Process
Generic synonyms: Body Part
11. Verb. Shape, form, or improve a material. "Work the metal"
Generic synonyms: Transform, Transmute, Transubstantiate
Related verbs: Forge, Form, Mold, Mould, Shape, Work
Specialized synonyms: Hot-work, Cold Work, Coldwork, Overwork, Make Over, Retread, Rework, Rack, Tool, Till
Derivative terms: Workable
12. Noun. A sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states. "The process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"
Generic synonyms: Physical Entity
Specialized synonyms: Phenomenon, Chelation, Dealignment, Decrease, Decrement, Degeneration, Devolution, Development, Evolution, Economic Process, Encapsulation, Execution, Instruction Execution, Human Process, Growth, Increase, Increment, Industrial Process, Irreversible Process, Iteration, Looping, Iteration, Loop, Action, Activity, Natural Action, Natural Process, Functioning, Operation, Performance, Biological Process, Organic Process, Photography, Processing, Reversible Process, Sensitisation, Sensitization, Defining, Shaping, Variation
13. Verb. Deliver a warrant or summons to someone. "He was processed by the sheriff"
Specialized synonyms: Subpoena, Rinse, Wash
Generic synonyms: Deliver
Definition of Process
1. n. The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.
Definition of Process
1. Noun. A series of events to produce a result, especially as contrasted to product. ¹
2. Noun. (legal) The act of serving a defendant with a summons or a writ. ¹
3. Noun. (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell. ¹
4. Noun. (computing) A task or program that is or was executing. ¹
5. Noun. (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries. ¹
6. Noun. A path of succession of states through which a system passes. ¹
7. Verb. (transitive) To perform a particular process. ¹
8. Verb. (transitive) To treat with a substance ¹
9. Verb. To walk in a procession. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Process
1. to treat or prepare by a special method [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Process
Literary usage of Process
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by Iron and Steel Institute (1893)
"The Decline of the Bessemer process with Small Converters.—O. Vogel * discusses
the decline of this process in the United States. Referring to the out-turn ..."
2. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"CHAPTER VIL THE LABOUR-process AND THE process OF PRODUCING SURPLUS-VALUE. ...
Labour is, in the first place, a process in which both man and Nature ..."
3. Annual Report by New Jersey Civil Service Commission (1910)
"Kind of gas supplied and the process of manufacture. Gl Buffalo Gas Co.: a. ...
Water gas: Lowe process. town roads In town of North Hempstead. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The process, which has since borne his name, was neither a difficult nor a ...
The man who finally undertook to manufacture paper by this process was JB ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The next great advance in the metallurgy of steel was the development of the
open-hearth process. (See STEEL, OPEN HEARTH MANUFACTURE). ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The "three-color process" and the Rtri-chro- matic process," are the names given
to an indirect process of color photography and color printing which has ..."
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