process

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The whole process took less than 10 minutes.

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Quick take

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"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of process gathered in one view.

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"

noun

(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"

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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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for process.

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"

noun

(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"

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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

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a mental process that you are not directly aware of; "the process of denial"

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a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process"

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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"

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"

verb

deal with in a routine way; "I'll handle that one"; "process a loan"; "process the applicants"

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"

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institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination"

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march in a procession; "They processed into the dining room"

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shape, form, or improve a material; "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal"

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deliver a warrant or summons to someone; "He was processed by the sheriff"

Example sentences

The whole process took less than 10 minutes.

Its hiring process should not be structured like Wal-Mart.

That's why the program details are listed on the first page of the checkout process and not the last.

It's a process they're very familiar with so they're going to skim and click through quickly.

Maybe it's banking, or process control, or contact management - it doesn't matter as long as it's something.

One fateful day, VMWare and OS/X conspired to trash my shared filesystem, losing several days of uncommitted code in the process.

Restart supervision didn't always help b/c sometimes it would throw some assertion that would bail out a critical thread, but the process would stay running.

In that section of that book, I found this passage, "Fluency in reading can only be achieved by extensive practice on all the interrelated aspects of the reading process.

They built better tools, drilled security into every new hire all the way to the execs, made it a part of every engineering and product process imaginable.

The stock icons look outright ugly; interfaces like the call-answer screen and the calculator look poorly designed, and everything has the sense that it just needs another run or two through the review process.

We do not disclose user information to government agencies without a court order, subpoena or formal legal process, nor do we provide any government agency with access to our servers.

The FDA also can and does write "guidances" outside of the legislative process which will make your business model illegal overnight or vastly more expensive due to unanticipated regulatory costs.

[2] In the UK this is a semi-democratic consultation process which occurs at local government level and involves publicly presenting the designs to local councillors to give residents of the area a chance to raise a formal objection.

I remember at the time reading newspaper articles claiming this was "just going to be used to keep drugs off the streets" and how "law enforcement are outgunned and now can defend themselves against drug dealers".It was obvious to me then that this was a violation of due process.

In addition, courts have consistently refused to extrapolate a generalized right to bodily and physical health from the Supreme Courts narrow substantive due process precedents regarding abortion, intimate relations, and the refusal of lifesaving medical treatment.