PROCESS
Definition:
- [noun] a particular course of action intended to achieve a result; "the procedure of obtaining a driver's license"; "it was a process of trial and error"
Synonyms: procedure
- [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] (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"
Synonyms: cognitive mental operation, cognitive operation
- [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
Synonyms: summons
- [noun] a mental process that you are not directly aware of; "the process of denial"
Synonyms: unconscious
- [noun] a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process"
Synonyms: outgrowth, appendage
- [verb] deal with in a routine way; "I'll handle that one"; "process a loan"; "process the applicants"
- [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"
Synonyms: treat
- [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] institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination"
Synonyms: action, sue, litigate
- [verb] shape, form, or improve a material; "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal"
Synonyms: work, work on
- [verb] deliver a warrant or summons to someone; "He was processed by the sheriff"
Synonyms: serve, swear out
- [verb] march in a procession; "They processed into the dining room"
Synonyms: march
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Related Words:
- propagate
- iodize, iodise
- nitrate
- tank
- oxygenate, oxygenize, oxygenise, aerate
- mercerize, mercerise
- malt
- fluoridate, fluoridize, fluoridise
- creosote
- chlorinate
- carbonate
- camphorate
- bromate, brominate
- ammoniate
- irradiate, ray
- scald
- refine
- nitrify, nitrogenize, nitrogenise
- reverberate
- curry
- seed
- dose
- winnow
- sulphur, sulfur
- vulcanize, vulcanise
- chrome
- bituminize, bituminise
- Agenize, Agenise
- run
- carboxylate
- beneficiate
- digest
- fumigate, fume
- air-condition
- expedite
- coldwork, cold work
- overwork
- rework, make over, retread
- rack
- tool
- till
- subpoena
- file
- parade, troop, promenade
- goose step
- countermarch
- debouch, march out
- Bertillon system
- fingerprinting
- genetic profiling, genetic fingerprinting
- diagnostic procedure, diagnostic technique
- emergency procedure
- experimental procedure
- calculation, computation, computing
- medical procedure
- mapping, chromosome mapping
- operating procedure
- stiffening
- indirection
- rigmarole, rigamarole
- routine, modus operandi
- condition, experimental condition
- rule, formula
- chelation
- dealignment
- decrease, decrement
- degeneration, devolution
- development, evolution
- economic process
- encapsulation
- execution, instruction execution
- human process
- increase, increment, growth
- industrial process
- irreversible process
- iteration, looping
- iteration, loop
- natural process, natural action, action, activity
- operation, functioning, performance
- organic process, biological process
- photography
- photomechanics, photoplatemaking
- preservation
- processing
- reversible process
- sensitization, sensitisation
- shaping, defining
- uptake
- basic cognitive process
- higher cognitive process
- citation
- monition, process of monition
- ticket
- condensation
- defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence
- horn
- horn
- crest
- pseudopod, pseudopodium
- flagellum
- hair
- cirrus
- spine
- aculea
- style
- villus
- tail
- fetlock
- tentacle
- arista
- acromion, acromial process
- ala
- alveolar arch
- alveolar ridge, gum ridge, alveolar process
- acrosome
- caruncle, caruncula
- condyle
- coronoid process, processus coronoideus
- epicondyle
- fimbria
- apophysis
- spicule, spiculum
- osteophyte
- papilla
- papilla
- appendix, vermiform appendix, vermiform process, cecal appendage
- mastoid, mastoid process, mastoid bone, mastoidal
- styloid process
- pterygoid process
- tuberosity, tubercle, eminence
- zygomatic process
- trochanter
- transverse process
- odontoid process
- metaphysis
- olecranon, olecranon process
- ridge
- excrescence
- plant process, enation
