Word Finder - process

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A series of events which produce a result (the product).

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This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.

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A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.

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1960, Mack Tyner, Process Engineering Calculations: Material and Energy Balances – Ordinarily a process plant will use a steam boiler to supply its process heat requirements and to drive a steam-turbine generator.

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A path of succession of states through which a system passes.

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Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.

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Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.

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An outgrowth of tissue or cell.

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A structure that arises above a surface.

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An executable task or program.

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The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.

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To perform a particular process on a thing.

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To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.

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We have processed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions.

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To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.

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I didn't know she had a criminal record. That will take me a while to process.

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To develop photographic film.

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To take legal proceedings against.

My God, I can't even process that!

The process causes physical difficulty and effort.

I don't think my mind could process it if it did.

In a flash I knew that the word was the name of the process that was going on in my head.

I tried to comprehend his thought process but I found it irrational.

I can't process this fast.

The natural selection process is survival of the fittest.

Every time he lashes out at you and gets his nails clipped in the process, it erases a little more of that fear.

They would probably be leaving very soon and anything she could do to hurry the process meant they would get to Ashley sooner.

If I hadn't taken time to apply my sleeping solution to the rag, I'd have been in the process of taking them just as that police car with its flashing lights came rolling up!

In almost all aspects of life, the application of this process will bring improvements.

The process takes about six weeks.

He watched her try to process the idea.

It is most unlikely that this process of improvement will not continue in the future.

She was much interested in the feeding process, and spelled "mother-dog" and "baby" several times.

If I could get your driver's license and insurance card, I'll start the claims process, too, Laurie said.

This is an algebraical process.

The process resulting in the formation of nitrates in the soil is spoken of as nitrification.

The speciality, however, is fine spinning, a process assisted by the damp climate.

Engraving is a process of drawing on glass by means of small copper wheels.

This entire process must, obviously, be applied in turn to each of the two surfaces of the slab of glass.

Its manufacture was introduced into England many years ago by Messrs Henry Tate & Sons, and they subsequently adopted and use now the improved process and apparatus patented in March 1890 by M Gustave Adant, a foreman sugar refiner of Brussels.

The process in his mind went on tormenting him without reaching a conclusion.

I seemed to know at once that the process of regeneration had already taken place in him, and I rushed to meet him.

As an outcome of this alchemical doctrine the process of fermentation was supposed to have a purifying and elevating effect on the bodies which had been submitted to its influence.

All tin, except a small quantity produced by the shaft furnace process from exceptionally pure stream tin ore, requires refining by liquation and "boiling" before it is ready for the market.

Repair Of Injuries In the process of inflammation we have a series of reactions on the part of the tissues, and fluids of the body, to counteract the ill effects of irritation or injury, to get rid of the cause, and to repair its results.

The stages of the process so far described generallyoccupy from 36 to 60 hours, and during this time the constant care and watchfulness of those attending the furnace is required.

The examination of small test-pieces of the glass withdrawn from the crucible by means of an iron rod having shown that the molten mass is free from bubbles, the stirring process may be begun, the object of this manipulation being to render the glass as homogeneous as possible and to secure the absence of veins or striae in the product.

The process can be almost indefinitely repeated and canes formed of extreme complexity.

Gradually, however, the process was applied without restraint and the products lost all artistic quality.

In an American process the glass is drawn direct from the molten mass in the tank in a cylindrical form by means of an iron ring previously immersed in the glass, and is kept in shape by means of special devices for cooling it rapidly as it leaves the molten bath.

But I do think we will see an end to any effective constraints relating to computers' ability to process data and transfer information.

This process of change is conceived as a transformation, in appearance only, of the real unchanging substance (matter and form).

The process is essentially a polar linear action, or differentiation from a common centre.

Nevertheless, though the conceptions originally denoted by " evolution " and " development " were shown to be untenable, the words retained their application to the process by which the embryos of living beings gradually make their appearance; and the terms" development," " Entwickelung,"and " evolutio " are now indiscriminately used for the series of genetic changes exhibited by living beings, by writers who would emphatically deny that " development " or " Entwickelung " or " evolutio," in the sense in which these words were usually employed by Bonnet or Haller, ever occurs.

The manufacture of overshoes and fishing boots is an analogous process, only the canvas base is more thickly coated with a highly pigmented rubber of low quality.

The repetition of the process brought the same results.

The next stage in the preparation of the glass is the process of moulding and annealing.

It will be readily understood from the above account of the process of production that optical glass, relatively to other kinds of glass, is very expensive, the actual price varying from 3s.

During the process of manipulation, whether on the chair or whilst the glass is being reheated, the rod must be constantly and gently trundled to prevent the collapse of the bulb or vessel.

In the manufacture of a wine-glass the ductility of glass is illustrated on a small scale by the process of pulling out the, leg.

In the " etching " process the surface of the glass is etched by the chemical action of hydrofluoric acid, the parts which are not to be attacked being covered with a resinous paint.

The glass in process of fusion is contained in a basin or tank built up of large blocks of fire-clay and is heated by one or more powerful gas flames which enter the upper part of the furnace chamber through suitable apertures or " ports."

This process is repeated, with slight modifications, until the gathering is of the proper size and weight to yield the sheet which is to be blown.

The process of sheet-glass manufacture described above is typical of that in use in a large number of works, but many modifications are to be found, particularly in the furnaces in which the glass is melted.

The complicated and indirect process of sheet-glass manufacture has led to numerous inventions aiming at a direct method of production by more or less mechanical means.

In this process, however, the entire operations of splitting and flattening are retained, and although the mechanical process is said to be in successful commercial operation, it has not as yet made itself felt as a formidable rival to hand-made sheet-glass.

Most of the pieces have evidently been made by casting, but the discovery of fragments of sheet-glass at Silchester proves that the process of making sheet-glass was known to the Romans.

The usual process was to gather, first, a small quantity of opaque white glass; to coat this with a thick layer of translucent blue glass; and, finally, to cover the blue glass with a coating of the white glass.