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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



... course. He does not say a word until he sees that she is beginning to calm down a little, when he completes the soothing process ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... to be drawn up to their apartments like babes in a basket!" he said laughingly, alluding to the "lift" process—"Upon my word, when I think of the strong people of a past age and compare them with the enervated race of to-day, I feel not only pity, but shame, for the visible degeneration of mankind. Frail nerves, weak hearts, ...
— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli
... plainer, and the sentences more accurately framed. Something also may be attributed to the feebleness of old age. Even a rough sketch of the Phaedrus or Symposium would have had a very different look. There is, however, an interest in possessing one writing of Plato which is in the process of creation. ...
— Laws • Plato
... powder of gold, which we found in their huts, and which they stick on their skin by means of some greasy substances, they told us that in a certain plain they tore up the grass, and gathered the earth in baskets, to subject it to the process of washing." Raleigh page 109. Can this passage be explained by supposing that the Indians sought thus laboriously, not for gold, but for spangles of mica, which the natives of Rio Caura still employ as ornaments, when they paint their bodies?) When we examine the structure ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America V3 • Alexander von Humboldt
... bones. This creature evidently plays an ugly part in the piece,—that of a horrible old ghoul, spiteful and famished. Still more appalling than her person is her shadow, which, projected upon a white screen, is abnormally and vividly distinct; by means of some unknown process this shadow, which nevertheless follows all her movements, assumes the aspect of a wolf. At a given moment the hag turns round and presents the profile of her distorted snub nose as she accepts the bowl of rice which is offered to her; on the ...
— Madame Chrysantheme • Pierre Loti


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