to process
- verb
- /ˈprɑːsɛs/
- Formal
- We shall all reassemble outside the town hall at three o'clock sharp, and then process through the village and the countryside, down to the beach below the stones, by the route which has become sacred to our rite.
Examples
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And then they would process from the cathedral or Chapel to a hall for for feasting, banqueting.
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The coronation party was processing into a grand doorway.
Fiction book (1998) -
We're gonna be processing to the next room now.
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And it's part of that grand suite of rooms through which the monarch processes at State Opening of Parliament.
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The students will process into the auditorium for the graduation ceremony.
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Every year, the community gathers to process down Main Street during the holiday parade.
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The soldiers process in formation to honor the fallen at the memorial service.
Synonyms
To walk in a steady, organized way with other people
To move in a line one after another
To march together in public to celebrate
To move together in a group, often slowly and in an orderly way
To walk together in an organized group for a parade or ceremony
Antonyms
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 series of machine and chemical steps used to make goods in a factory
- Specialized
A change or movement in matter and energy that happens in nature and in experiments, like melting
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
- Specialized
A natural change that makes, changes, or destroys Earth's rocks and land
- 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
A natural set of actions that happen inside living things, like breathing or digestion
- Specialized
A bony part on the back of each spine bone where muscles and ligaments attach
- Archaic
A method that makes steel by blowing air through liquid iron to remove carbon and other unwanted parts
- Specialized
A natural function inside a living body, like breathing or digestion
- Specialized
A bony projection on each side of a vertebra where muscles attach
- Specialized
A mental activity that happens without you noticing or controlling it
- Specialized
A simple mental action like seeing, remembering, or paying attention
- Specialized
A way of studying and changing how a company works to make it faster, cheaper, and better
- Archaic
An old way to make photos by bleaching a print and painting it with oil ink for a painted look
- Jargon
The right of a person on trial to have witnesses brought by court order
- Specialized
A process in which the space a gas takes stays the same while pressure or temperature change
- Specialized
A thin triangular part at the front top of the lower jaw where a chewing muscle attaches
- Specialized
A sharp triangular part that sticks out of a bone, for example the lower jaw or the ulna
- Specialized
A method of taking gold and silver from ore using a cyanide solution
- Specialized
A brewing method that removes part of the mashed grain, boils it, and returns it to raise temperature
- Archaic
A way to make photographs on glass plates with a thin light-sensitive layer
- Specialized
A way to make graphite by heating a mix of coke and clay at very high heat
- Specialized
Outer point of the shoulder blade that forms the tip of the shoulder
- Specialized
A process in which no heat moves into or out of a system, for example when a gas expands quickly
- Specialized
Natural changes that turn dead plants or animals into rock-like remains
- Specialized
A method that heats a mixture to separate parts by their boiling points
- Specialized
A mental activity people use to understand, produce, or learn language
- Specialized
Selling the things a company owns to pay its debts before it closes
- Specialized
A random system where what happens next depends only on the present, not on the past
- Specialized
A series of steps used to solve math problems like addition or multiplication
- Specialized
A factory method for making ammonia by reacting nitrogen and hydrogen gases under high pressure and heat with iron
- Specialized
A process that makes ammonia by combining nitrogen and hydrogen gases at high temperature and pressure with an iron catalyst
- Specialized
Thinking that uses what you have learned to reason, plan, or solve problems
- Specialized
A process where a sealed container keeps the same volume while pressure or temperature change
- Specialized
A process where the volume stays the same while pressure or temperature change
A cheese made by mixing different cheeses with other ingredients that help it melt smoothly
A formal notice given after a claim asking people to explain why the court should not enter judgment against them
- Specialized
A bony part inside the skull that sticks down to help form the nose and mouth and hold chewing muscles
- Specialized
A type of talk therapy that explores a person's hidden thoughts and childhood experiences
- Specialized
A chemical action at very high heat to change or separate materials
- Specialized
A process in the mind where one thing stands for another, like a word for an idea
How Formal
- Formal
Surface Forms
Etymology
The sense of process meaning 'to move in a line' comes from Latin processio, 'a going forward'. Think of a procession — people going forward in order — and you can remember that to process is to march or move forward in a formal way.