process
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(verb) subject to a process or treatment, often with the aim of readying for some purpose; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "process water" |
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Synonyms: treat |
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Related Words: affect, agenize, ammoniate, bear on, bear upon, bituminize, bromate, brominate, camphorate, carbonate, carboxylate, chlorinate, chrome, creosote, digest, dose, fluoridate, fluoridize, fume, fumigate, impact, iodise, iodize, irradiate, malt, mercerize, nitrate, oxygenate, oxygenize, ray, refine, run, sulphur, tank, touch, touch on, vulcanize, winnow |
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(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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Related Words: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon |
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(verb) deal with in a routine way: "I'll handle that one"; "process a loan"; "process the applicants" |
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Related Words: care, deal, handle, manage |
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(noun) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process" |
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Synonyms: appendage, outgrowth |
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Related Words: acromion, acrosome, aculea, ala, alveolar arch, alveolar process, alveolar ridge, apophysis, appendix, arista, body part, caruncle, caruncula, cecal appendage, cirrus, condyle, crest, enation, excrescence, fetlock, flagellum, gum ridge, hair, horn, mastoid, mastoid process, metaphysis, odontoid process, papilla, plant process, pseudopod, pseudopodium, pterygoid process, spicule, spiculum, spine, style, styloid process, tail, tentacle, transverse process, tubercle, tuberosity, vermiform appendix, vermiform process, villus, zygomatic process |
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(noun) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the act of remembering" |
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Synonyms: act, cognitive operation, cognitive process, operation |
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Related Words: basic cognitive process, cognition, higher cognitive process, knowledge |
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(noun) a mental process that you are not directly aware of; "the process of denial" |
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Synonyms: unconscious process |
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Related Words: cognition, condensation, knowledge |
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(noun) a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes; "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls" |
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Related Words: action, activity, chelation, dealignment, decrease, decrement, defining, degeneration, development, economic process, evolution, execution, growth, human process, increase, increment, natural action, natural process, phenomenon, photography, processing, shaping, uptake |
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(noun) a particular course of action intended to achieve a results; "the procedure of obtaining a driver's license"; "it was a process of trial and error" |
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Synonyms: procedure |
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Related Words: Bertillon system, activity, calculation, chromosome mapping, computation, condition, diagnostic procedure, emergency procedure, experimental condition, fingerprinting, formula, indirection, mapping, modus operandi, operating procedure, rigamarole, rigmarole, routine, rule, stiffening |
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(verb) serve somebody with a warrant or summons; "He was processed by the sheriff" |
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Synonyms: serve, swear out |
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Related Words: deliver, subpoena |
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(verb) march in a procession; "They processed into the dining room" |
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Synonyms: march |
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Related Words: countermarch, debouch, file, march out, parade, promenade, troop, walk |
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(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 |
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Synonyms: summons |
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Related Words: citation, judicial writ, ticket, writ |
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(verb) shape, form, or improve something: "work stone into tools"; "process iron" |
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Synonyms: work, work on |
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Related Words: make over, overwork, rack, retread, rework, till, tool, transform, transmute |
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(verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him" |
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Synonyms: litigate, sue |
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Related Words: challenge, expedite |
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