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<A NAME="process">
<B>process</B> (1), noun, verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a set of actions or changes in a special order. <BR> <I>Ex. the process of reading, a process of decay. By what process or processes is cloth made from wool?</I> (SYN) operation. <DD><B> 2. </B>a course of action; procedure. <BR> <I>Ex. the democratic process.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a part that grows out or sticks out. <BR> <I>Ex. the process of a bone.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a written command or summons to appear in a law court. <DD><B> 5. </B>the proceedings in a legal case or action. <DD><B> 6. </B>forward movement; progress; course. <BR> <I>Ex. Saturnian Juno now, with double care, Attends the fatal process of the war (Dryden).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to treat, prepare, or handle by some special method. <BR> <I>Ex. to process fruit and vegetables for market. This cloth has been processed to make it waterproof. Computing machines process information very quickly. [Fort] Dix ... processes men for overseas duty and on their return to this country (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to start legal action against, especially by serving a process on. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>treated or prepared by some special method. <BR> <I>Ex. process foods.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>used in some process. <BR> <I>Ex. process heat.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>involving special optical effects. <BR> <I>Ex. a process camera, a process shot.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>in process,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>in the course or condition. </I> <I>Ex. In process of time the house will be finished.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>in the course or condition of being done. <BR> <I>Ex. The author has just finished one book and has another in process.</I> adj. <B>processable.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="process">
<B>process</B> (2), intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) to go, walk, or march in procession. <BR> <I>Ex. The pilgrims process energetically around the courtyard with their candles ... led by jolly bearded monks (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="processart">
<B>process art,</B> <B>=conceptual art.</B></DL>
<A NAME="processcheese">
<B>process cheese,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a cheese mixture prepared by melting various hard cheeses, especially cheddars, emulsifying them, and mixing them with whey, water, tartrate and phosphate salts, or other ingredients. </DL>
<A NAME="processingtax">
<B>processing tax,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a Federal tax placed on processes involved in handling certain commodities, especially agricultural commodities. </DL>
<A NAME="procession">
<B>procession, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>something that moves forward; persons marching or riding. <BR> <I>Ex. a procession of ants. A funeral procession filled the street.</I> (SYN) cortege. <DD><B> 2. </B>an orderly moving forward. <BR> <I>Ex. We formed lines to march in procession onto the platform.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to move in procession. </DL>
<A NAME="processional">
<B>processional, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of a procession. <BR> <I>Ex. Crowds ... lining the processional route (Punch).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>used or sung in a procession. <BR> <I>Ex. a processional hymn; ... the great processional elephant (B. M. Croker).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>processional music. <BR> <I>Ex. The choir and clergy marched into the church singing the processional.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a book containing hymns, litanies, etc., for use in religious processions. adv. <B>processionally.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="processionary">
<B>processionary, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>consisting of a formal or solemn procession. <DD><B> 2. </B>forming and moving in a procession. <BR> <I>Ex. processionary caterpillars.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="processor">
<B>processor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who processes something, such as a worker who prepares food or food products especially for commercial canning or freezing. <DD><B> 2a. </B>the unit that controls and carries out the processing operations in a computer; central processing unit. <BR> <I>Ex. Mercury units have become more costly than processors, because of the large amount required (Science Journal).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the part of a computer that contains this unit. <BR> <I>Ex. In the past Digital's customers have usually bought a processor and written their own software for it (New Scientist).</I> <DD><B> c. </B>any device for handling or processing information, such as a data processor. <DD><B> 3. </B>an artist who creates works of process art. </DL>
<A NAME="processpatent">
<B>process patent,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a patent on the method of producing a product. </DL>
<A NAME="processprinting">
<B>process printing,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a method of printing pictures in color, by which almost any shade can be reproduced from a combination of half-tone plates in red, yellow, blue, and, usually, black. </DL>
<A NAME="processserver">
<B>process server,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who serves summonses, subpoenas, or other legal orders. </DL>
<A NAME="procesverbal">
<B>proces-verbal, </B>noun, pl. <B>-baux.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a report of proceedings, as of an assembly; minutes. <BR> <I>Ex. ... when French and American experts would also meet to draw up the proces-verbal of the talks (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="prochancellor">
<B>prochancellor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a deputy or assistant of the vice-chancellor in certain British universities. </DL>
<A NAME="prochlorperazine">
<B>prochlorperazine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a synthetic drug used as a tranquilizer and to stop vomiting. </DL>
<A NAME="prochoice">
<B>pro-choice, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> supporting the right to choose abortion to terminate a pregnancy. <BR> <I>Ex. People who believe abortion should be legal and available call themselves pro-choice (New York Daily News). Pro-choice supporters look toward a society in which children are conceived by choice, not by chance (Harper's).</I> noun <B>pro-choicer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="prochoos">
<B>prochoos, </B>noun, pl. <B>-chooi.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a pitcherlike vessel, resembling the oinochoe but usually more slender, used in ancient Greece for pouring out wine and for pouring water on the hands before a meal. </DL>
<A NAME="prochronism">
<B>prochronism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the assigning of an event to a period earlier than its actual date. <BR> <I>Ex. It is a prochronism to talk of the May fly, for ... the first ten days of June usually constitute the May-fly season (J. A. Gibbs).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="proclaim">
<B>proclaim, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to make known publicly and officially; declare publicly. <BR> <I>Ex. War was proclaimed. The people proclaimed him king. (Figurative.) His actions proclaim his love.</I> (SYN) publish. <DD><B> 2a. </B>to declare (a person) to be an outlaw; denounce. <BR> <I>Ex. I heard myself proclaim'd; And by the happy hollow of a tree escaped the hunt (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to subject (a place) to legal restrictions. noun <B>proclaimer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="proclamation">
<B>proclamation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an official announcement; public declaration. <BR> <I>Ex. Every year the President issues a Thanksgiving Day proclamation. The revolution broke out in France in February, 1848 ... with the immediate fall of Louis-Philippe and the proclamation of the French Republic (Edmund Wilson).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="proclamatory">
<B>proclamatory, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> in the manner of making a proclamation. <BR> <I>Ex. proclamatory style.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="proclitic">
<B>proclitic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> (of a word) so closely connected with a following word as to have no independent accent. <DD><I>noun </I> a proclitic word. In the following example <I>to</I> is a proclitic word. <BR> <I>Ex. to see and to do.</I> adv. <B>proclitically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="proclivity">
<B>proclivity, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> tendency; inclination; predisposition; leaning; propensity. <BR> <I>Ex. The old woman had a proclivity for finding fault. There are many spots in Florida that attract people with a proclivity for uncrowded but urbane resort life (New Yorker).</I> (SYN) bias, bent. </DL>
<A NAME="procne">
<B>Procne, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Mythology.) Philomela's sister, who was turned into a swallow. </DL>
<A NAME="procommunist">
<B>pro-Communist, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> favoring, aligned with, or committed to the Communists or Communism. <DD><I>noun </I> a member of a pro-Communist armed forces or political group. </DL>
<A NAME="proconsul">
<B>proconsul, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a governor or military commander of an ancient Roman province, with duties and powers like a consul's. <DD><B> 2. </B>the governor of a colony or other dependent territory, especially during British or French colonial expansion. </DL>
<A NAME="proconsul">
<B>Proconsul, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a manlike ape of the Miocene epoch, living in Africa approximately 25,000,000 years ago and considered by some anthropologists to be an ancestor of man. </DL>
<A NAME="proconsular">
<B>proconsular, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, having to do with, or governed by a proconsul. </DL>
<A NAME="proconsulate">
<B>proconsulate, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the position or term of a proconsul. </DL>
<B>procrastinate, </B>intransitive verb, transitive verb, <B>-nated,</B> <B>-nating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to put things off until later; delay, especially repeatedly. <BR> <I>Ex. to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.</I> (SYN) defer, postpone. noun <B>procrastinator.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="procrastination">
<B>procrastination, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or habit of putting things off till later; delay. <BR> <I>Ex. Procrastination is the thief of time (Edward Young).</I> (SYN) dilatoriness, postponement. </DL>
