process¹ /prōˈses or (esp N American) prosˈ, also (Milton) prō-sesˈ/

1. A state of being in progress or being carried on
2. Course
3. A narrative (Shakespeare)
4. A series of actions or events
5. A sequence of operations or changes undergone
6. A photo-process (printing)
7. A writ by which a person or matter is brought into court (law)
8. An action, suit, or the proceedings in it as a whole
9. Progression
10. Proceeding
11. An edict (Shakespeare)
12. A projection or projecting part, esp on a bone (biology, anatomy)

1. To serve a summons on
2. To sue or prosecute
3. To subject to a special process
4. To produce or print photomechanically
5. To prepare (eg agricultural produce) for marketing by some special process, eg canning or bottling
6. To arrange (documents, etc) systematically
7. To examine and analyse
8. To test the suitability of (a person) for some purpose
9. (of a computer) to perform operations of adding, subtracting, etc, or other operations on (data supplied)
10. To subject (data) to such operations

prōˈcessed adjective

1. Produced by a special process, eg synthetically, photomechanically, etc
2. Subjected to a certain process

prōˈcessor noun

1. Something or someone that processes
2. A device which processes data (computing)
3. A central processing unit (computing)

processˈual adjective

1. Governed by or related to an established process
2. Having a direct function (N American)

process block noun

A photomechanically made block for printing a picture

process control noun

Direct automatic control of a physical industrial process by computer

process engineering noun

The branch of engineering concerned with industrial processes

proˈcess-server noun

A sheriff's officer

data processing

The handling and processing of information by computers

in the process (or in process) of

In the course of (doing something, being made, etc)

procession /prō-seshˈən or prə-/

1. The act of proceeding
2. A file or train of people, vehicles, boats, etc moving forward together by way of ceremony, display, demonstration, etc
3. The movement of such a train
4. A litany sung in procession (Christianity)

To go in procession

1. To go through or around in procession
2. To celebrate by a procession

process /prō-sesˈ/ intransitive verb

(back-formation) to go in procession

processˈional adjective noun (Christianity)

1. A book of litanies, hymns, etc for processions
2. A hymn sung in procession

processˈionalist noun

processˈionary adjective

processˈioner noun (US)

A county officer who determines boundaries

processˈioning noun

1. Going in procession
2. Perambulation of boundaries (US)

processionary moth noun

A European moth (Thaumetopoea processionea) whose caterpillars go out seeking food in great processions

Procession of the Holy Ghost (theology)

The emanation of the Holy Spirit from the Father (single procession), or from the Father and Son (double procession)

pterygoid /terˈi-goid or pterˈi-goid/

1. Winglike
2. Of or near the pterygoid

(in full, pterygoid bone, plate or process) in various vertebrates, a paired bone of the upper jaw behind the palatines, known in human anatomy as the pterygoid plates of the sphenoid bone

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