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Sounds | praa'seh.s; prao'seh.s |
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Rhymes | abscess, access, acquiesce, and 72 more rhymes in ehs at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | A particular course of action intended to achieve a result. |
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Examples | "it was a process of trial and error" |
Synonyms | procedure |
Narrower | 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 |
Broader | activity |
Verbs | process; process |
Meaning | A sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states. |
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Examples | "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls" |
Narrower | 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 |
Broader | phenomenon |
Meaning | (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity. An operation that affects mental contents. |
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Examples | "the process of thinking" |
Synonyms | cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation |
Category | psychology, psychological science |
Narrower | basic cognitive process; higher cognitive process |
Broader | cognition, knowledge, noesis |
Meaning | 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 |
Category | law, jurisprudence |
Narrower | citation; monition, process of monition; ticket |
Broader | writ, judicial writ |
Verbs | process; process |
Meaning | A mental process that you are not directly aware of. |
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Examples | "the process of denial" |
Synonyms | unconscious process |
Narrower | condensation; defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence |
Broader | cognition, knowledge, noesis |
Meaning | A natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant. |
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Examples | "a bony process" |
Synonyms | outgrowth, appendage |
Narrower | 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 |
Broader | body part |
Meaning | Deal with in a routine way. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "process a loan"; "process the applicants" |
Broader | manage, deal, care, handle |
Nouns | processing; process |
Meaning | Subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "process cheese"; "process hair" |
Synonyms | treat |
Narrower | 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 |
Broader | affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch |
Nouns | processor; processor; processing |
Meaning | Perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "The results of the elections were still being processed when he gave his acceptance speech" |
Broader | calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure |
Nouns | processor |
Meaning | Institute legal proceedings against. File a suit against. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
Examples | "He was warned that the district attorney would process him" |
Synonyms | action, sue, litigate |
Narrower | expedite |
Broader | challenge |
Similar to | litigate |
Nouns | process |
Meaning | Shape, form, or improve a material. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "process iron" |
Synonyms | work, work on |
Narrower | coldwork, cold work; overwork; rework, make over, retread; rack; tool; till |
Broader | transform, transmute, transubstantiate |
Similar to | shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge |
Nouns | process |
Meaning | Deliver a warrant or summons to someone. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody with something |
Examples | "He was processed by the sheriff" |
Synonyms | serve, swear out |
Narrower | subpoena |
Broader | deliver |
Nouns | process |
Meaning | March in a procession. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
Model | The children process to the playground |
Examples | "They processed into the dining room" |
Synonyms | march |
Narrower | file; parade, troop, promenade; goose step; countermarch; debouch, march out |
Broader | walk |