process
/ˈpɹɑ.sɛs/ noun B1- A series of events leading to a result or product. · This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
- The set of procedures used in the manufacture of a product, especially in the food and chemical industries.
- A path or succession of states through which a system passes.
- Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
- Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
- An outgrowth of tissue arising above a surface, such as might form part of a joint or the attachment point for a muscle.
- An executable task or program.
- The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.
Plural processes
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Anne washed the dishes deftly enough, as Marilla, who kept a sharp eye on the process, discerned.
So startling would his results appear to the uninitiated that until they learned the processes by which he had arrived at them they might well consider him as a necromancer.
But this freckled witch was very different, and although he found it rather difficult for his slower intelligence to keep up with her brisk mental processes he thought that he “kind of liked her chatter.” So he said as shyly as usual:
The flat was accordingly pushed off, scraping roughly over an old embedded stake in the process.
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