process
- noun
- /ˈprɑːsɛs/
- Well, what about the actual process of telling the story?
- learning process
- cognitive process
- decision-making process
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- We're going to start the process by doing a little prep.
- Well, is the scientific process doing it bad?
- And, and when you completed that process, you got a shot.
- And I, I love seeing the process of solving problems.
- And then we did that whole same process again over more time.
- But a lot of damage gets done in the process, Plato thought.
- So this is just literally the normal process of ageing.
- Most people really tolerate this process very, very well.
- Like what is the process for I think this?
- And it it's a process in which you.
Examples
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And basically we were in the process of moving house.
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You need to love the process, love the work.
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I think the brilliant part of this process is that we are all learning together.
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Because only in the voting process can the public best protect themselves.
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At Christie, we focus on and celebrate the process, expecting great results along the way.
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The specificities of this dataset selection process will be explained in a further paper.
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Students would be introduced to the entrepreneurship process in the context of an information technology startup.
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Understanding the process of photosynthesis is essential for studying plant biology.
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The first step in the process of making cheese involves curdling the milk.
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She enjoyed documenting the process of creating her artwork from start to finish.
Synonyms
A set of steps you follow in order to get a result
To prepare something by a set of planned steps, like food or documents
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Idioms
Compounds
- Formal
A series of talks and actions to end a war and make peace between fighting sides
- Formal
Fair legal steps that follow rules and protect people from unfair loss of freedom or property
A series of steps people follow to make a choice in a group or organization
- Formal
A rule that the government must follow fair legal steps before taking someone's life, freedom, or property
- Specialized
A change or movement in matter and energy that happens in nature and in experiments, like melting
- Specialized
A series of machine and chemical steps used to make goods in a factory
The physical stages a person goes through when a baby comes out of their body
- Specialized
Processes inside a living cell or body that make and use energy to keep it alive
A natural change on Earth that shapes rocks and land, like erosion or volcanoes
A cheese made by mixing different cheeses with other ingredients that help it melt smoothly
- Specialized
A bony part on the back of each spine bone where muscles and ligaments attach
A natural set of actions that happen inside living things, like breathing or digestion
- Specialized
A natural change that makes, changes, or destroys Earth's rocks and land
- Specialized
A mental activity that happens without you noticing or controlling it
- Specialized
A change that cannot be undone, for example melting or rusting
- Specialized
The bony bump at the back of the elbow that fits into the upper arm when the arm is straight
- Specialized
A series of steps used to solve math problems like addition or multiplication
- Archaic
A method that makes steel by blowing air through liquid iron to remove carbon and other unwanted parts
- Specialized
A bony projection on each side of a vertebra where muscles attach
- Specialized
Outer point of the shoulder blade that forms the tip of the shoulder
- Jargon
The right of a person on trial to have witnesses brought by court order
- Specialized
A process where a system returns to how it started when the steps are done backward
- Specialized
A factory method for making ammonia by reacting nitrogen and hydrogen gases under high pressure and heat with iron
- Specialized
A natural function inside a living body, like breathing or digestion
- Specialized
A thin part of the skull at the side of the face that helps form the cheekbone
- Specialized
A process that makes ammonia by combining nitrogen and hydrogen gases at high temperature and pressure with an iron catalyst
- Specialized
Selling the things a company owns to pay its debts before it closes
- Specialized
A raised part of the jaw bone that holds the sockets of the teeth
- Specialized
An operation where a surgeon cuts the body to fix or remove a problem
- Specialized
A mental activity people use to understand, produce, or learn language
- Specialized
A simple mental action like seeing, remembering, or paying attention
- Specialized
A slender, pointed part of a bone at the base of the skull that muscles attach to
- Specialized
A sharp triangular part that sticks out of a bone, for example the lower jaw or the ulna
- Specialized
A way of studying and changing how a company works to make it faster, cheaper, and better
- Specialized
A process in which no heat moves into or out of a system, for example when a gas expands quickly
- Specialized
Thinking that uses what you have learned to reason, plan, or solve problems
- Specialized
Natural changes that turn dead plants or animals into rock-like remains
- Specialized
A type of talk therapy that explores a person's hidden thoughts and childhood experiences
- Archaic
A way to make photographs on glass plates with a thin light-sensitive layer
- Specialized
A process in the mind where one thing stands for another, like a word for an idea
- Specialized
A random sequence whose statistical properties stay the same over time
- Specialized
A method of taking gold and silver from ore using a cyanide solution
- Specialized
A random system where what happens next depends only on the present, not on the past
- Archaic
A way of making steel by melting iron and scrap metal in a large open furnace
- Archaic
An old way to make photos by bleaching a print and painting it with oil ink for a painted look
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Etymology
Process comes from the Latin parts pro- 'forward' and cedere 'to go'. So a process is literally a 'going forward' — a series of steps or changes that move something toward a result.