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Noun process has 6 senses
- procedure, process - 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"
--1 is a kind of activity
--1 has particulars:
- process - 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"
--2 is a kind of phenomenon
--2 has particulars: | | 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 |
- process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation - (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"
--3 is a kind of cognition, knowledge, noesis
--3 has particulars: basic cognitive process; higher cognitive process
- summons, process - 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
--4 is a kind of writ, judicial writ
--4 has particulars: citation; monition, process of monition; ticket
- process, unconscious process - a mental process that you are not directly aware of; "the process of denial"
--5 is a kind of cognition, knowledge, noesis
--5 has particulars:
- process, outgrowth, appendage - a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process"
--6 is a kind of body part
--6 has particulars: | | 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 |
Verb process has 7 senses
- process - deal with in a routine way; "I'll handle that one"; "process a loan"; "process the applicants"
--1 is one way to manage, deal, care, handle
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- process, treat - 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"
--2 is one way to affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- process - 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"
--3 is one way to calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- action, sue, litigate, process - institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination"
--4 is one way to challenge
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- work, work on, process - shape, form, or improve a material; "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal"
--5 is one way to transform, transmute, transubstantiate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- serve, process, swear out - deliver a warrant or summons to someone; "He was processed by the sheriff"
--6 is one way to deliver
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody with something
- march, process - march in a procession; "They processed into the dining room"
--7 is one way to walk
Sample sentence:
The children process to the playground
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