1. • noun - a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
   • noun - (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity
   • noun - a writ issued by authority of law
   • noun - a mental process that you are not directly aware of
   • noun - a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant
   • noun - a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
   • verb - subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
   • verb - deal with in a routine way
   • verb - perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information
   • verb - institute legal proceedings against
   • verb - march in a procession
   • verb - shape, form, or improve a material
   • verb - deliver a warrant or summons to someone
2. • A series of actions, changes, or functions bringing about a result: the process of digestion; the process of obtaining a driver’s license.
   • A series of operations performed in the making or treatment of a product: a manufacturing process; leather dyed during the tanning process.
   • Progress; passage: the process of time; events now in process.
   • The entire course of a judicial proceeding.
   • Law.
   • A summons or writ ordering a defendant to appear in court.
   • The total quantity of summonses or writs issued in a particular proceeding.
   • An outgrowth of tissue; a projecting part: a bony process.
   • Any of various photomechanical or photoengraving methods.
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   • To put through the steps of a prescribed procedure: processing newly arrived immigrants; received the order, processed it, and dispatched the goods.
   • To prepare, treat, or convert by subjecting to a special process: process ore to obtain minerals.
   • Law.
   • To serve with a summons or writ.
   • To institute legal proceedings against; prosecute.
   • To perform operations on (data).
   • To straighten (hair) by a chemical process; conk.
   • Prepared or converted by a special process: process cheese.
   • In recent years there has been a tendency to pronounce the plural ending -es of processes as (-Kz), perhaps by analogy with words of Greek origin such as analysis and neurosis.
3. • v - to treat or prepare by a special method

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