process
/ˈpɹɑ.sɛs/ verb B2- To perform a particular process on a thing.
- To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques. · We have processed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions.
- To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state. · I didn't know she had a criminal record. That will take me a while to process.
- To develop photographic film.
- To take legal proceedings against.
He/she/it processes · Past processed · Past participle processed · -ing form processing
Verb forms
- Base form
- process
- He/she/it
- processes
- Past
- processed
- Past participle
- processed
- -ing form
- processing
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Anne washed the dishes deftly enough, as Marilla, who kept a sharp eye on the process, discerned.
The flat was accordingly pushed off, scraping roughly over an old embedded stake in the process.
It is not necessary that I should prolong a narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly playing with a dangerous pet.
And yet I will give my process of thought even as I gave it to my small audience, which included Godfrey's mother, in the study of Colonel Emsworth.
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