Process

(noun.) a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states; 'events now in process'; 'the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls'.

(noun.) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; 'a bony process'.

(noun.) (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; 'the process of thinking'; 'the cognitive operation of remembering'.

(noun.) a mental process that you are not directly aware of; 'the process of denial'.

(verb.) subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; 'process cheese'; 'process hair'; 'treat the water so it can be drunk'; 'treat the lawn with chemicals' ; 'treat an oil spill'.

(verb.) perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information; 'The results of the elections were still being processed when he gave his acceptance speech'.

(verb.) deal with in a routine way; 'I'll handle that one'; 'process a loan'; 'process the applicants'.

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• Such is the process by which the youth passes from the necessary pleasures to the unnecessary. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Now she was simply ripening into a copy of her mother, and mysteriously, by the very process, trying to turn him into a Mr. Welland. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Always, also, it may be well to bear in mind that by the word 'creation' the zoologist means 'a process he knows not what. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• There is an activity in process; one is taken up with the development of a theme. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Again, let us see how the democratical man grows out of the oligarchical: the following, as I suspect, is commonly the process. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• De Chardonnet’s Process of Making Artificial Silk. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Thus, by this simple and beautiful process, the party is informed that his mother is dead, and he weeps. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• What are known as the soda-pulp and the sulphite processes are examples of this. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• But even thus early the stronger love of mechanical processes and of probing natural forces manifested itself. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He understood the various processes of handling wool and cotton, although his own work lay outside them. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Inventions and discoveries in the field of surgery relate not only to instrumentalities but processes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The alchemists sought to discover processes whereby one metal might be transmuted into another. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• One of the most important and lucrative industrial processes of the world to-day is that of staining and dyeing. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• They had reduced the force of earlier times by making larger quantities by better processes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Hog hair would probably not appeal to the average person as being a thing of particular value, but it is processed so as to make the finished product worth as much as the meat itself. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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