process — 英語辞典

名詞

1. A series of events leading to a result or product.

   例文

   This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.

   But they came up against an impressive force in Bayern, who extended their run to 10 wins on the trot, having scored 28 goals in the process and conceding none.

   その他の例文 (2)

   Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […] In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.

   For each of the schemes discussed, there is the four-stage process of planning, funding, delivery and operations, in which the various parties involved might be the lead, a partner or an influencer.

2. The set of procedures used in the manufacture of a product, especially in the food and chemical industries.

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   1960, Mack Tyner, Process Engineering Calculations: Material and Energy Balances – Ordinarily a process plant will use a steam boiler to supply its process heat requirements and to drive a steam-turbine generator.

   1987, J. R. Richards, Principles of control system design in Modelling and control of fermentation processes – The words plant or process infer generally any dynamic system, be it primarily mechanical, electrical, or chemical process in nature, and may extend also to include social or economic systems.

3. A path or succession of states through which a system passes.

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   We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.

4. Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.

5. Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.

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   But if either at Calling by the Clerk, after the Session Bell, or before the Ordinary by the Roll, an Advocat compears, and craves to be Marked for the Defender, and to see the Process; The Clerk in the first Case, and the Judge in the second, will allow him to see it

6. An outgrowth of tissue arising above a surface, such as might form part of a joint or the attachment point for a muscle.

7. An executable task or program.

8. The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.

動詞

1. To perform a particular process on a thing.

   用法

   • 他動詞

   例文

   Processing the harvested cocoons begins with grading and then boiling them in soapy water to soften the sericin that binds the fibers together.

2. To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.

   用法

   • 他動詞

   例文

   We have processed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions.

   If you process you own digital files, it's as time consuming, or maybe even more time consuming, than it is to process and print your own film.

   その他の例文 (1)

   CBP told CNN it currently processes “nearly 4 million duty-free de minimis shipments a day.”

3. To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.

   用法

   • 比喩的
   • 他動詞

   例文

   I didn't know she had a criminal record. That will take me a while to process.

4. To develop photographic film.

   用法

   • 他動詞

5. To take legal proceedings against.

   用法

   • 他動詞

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   When I saw that he would not let me alone, I processed him for £12. My mother was with his brother John, and he allowed her six guineas for clothes; and if she did not want the money, he would allow it to me in the rent, and I made him pay that when he would not leave me alone.

動詞

1. To walk in a procession, especially in a liturgical context.

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   Prayers completed and Psalms ending, patriarch, emperor, and their sumptuously clad entourages move past the open, silver-clad wings of the Imperial Door and process into the crowded nave and continue to the sanctuary at the east.

名詞

1. a particular course of action intended to achieve a result

   同義語

   procedure

   上位語

   activity

   例文

   the procedure of obtaining a driver's license

   it was a process of trial and error

2. (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents

   同義語

   cognitive processmental processoperationcognitive operation

   上位語

   cognitionknowledgenoesis

   例文

   the process of thinking

   the cognitive operation of remembering

3. a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant

   同義語

   summons

   上位語

   writjudicial writ

4. a mental process that you are not directly aware of

   同義語

   unconscious process

   上位語

   cognitionknowledgenoesis

   例文

   the process of denial

5. a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant

   同義語

   outgrowthappendage

   上位語

   body part

   例文

   a bony process

6. a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states

   同義語

   physical process

   上位語

   physical entity

   例文

   events now in process

   the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls

1. subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition

   同義語

   treat

   上位語

   affectimpactbear uponbear ontouch ontouch

   例文

   process cheese

   process hair

   その他の例文 (3)

   treat the water so it can be drunk

   treat the lawn with chemicals

   treat an oil spill

2. deal with in a routine way

   上位語

   managedealcarehandle

   例文

   process a loan

   process the applicants

3. perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information

   上位語

   calculateciphercyphercomputework outreckonfigure

   例文

   The results of the elections were still being processed when he gave his acceptance speech

4. institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against

   同義語

   actionsuelitigate

   上位語

   challenge

   例文

   He was warned that the district attorney would process him

   She actioned the company for discrimination

5. shape, form, or improve a material

   同義語

   workwork on

   上位語

   transformtransmutetransubstantiate

   例文

   work stone into tools

   process iron

   その他の例文 (1)

   work the metal

6. deliver a warrant or summons to someone

   同義語

   serveswear out

   上位語

   deliver

   例文

   He was processed by the sheriff

1. march in a procession

   同義語

   march

   上位語

   walk

   例文

   They processed into the dining room