Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or operation of putting something through a prescribed process.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
action of the verb toprocess . - noun The act of taking something through a set of
prescribed procedures . - verb Present participle of
process .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure
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Examples
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ÂI remember it well because I wrote the EasyWriter manual to accompany the word processing program that IBM sold along with that original PC.
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I remember it well because I wrote the EasyWriter manual to accompany the word processing program that IBM sold along with that original PC.
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While I'm sitting in front of the two monitors attached to my PC, I have aÂTwitterÂfeed in the lower right corner of my main screen, my word processing document in the center and a Gmail session on the other monitor.
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While I'm sitting in front of the two monitors attached to my PC, I have aTwitterfeed in the lower right corner of my main screen, my word processing document in the center and a Gmail session on the other monitor.
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While I'm sitting in front of the two monitors attached to my PC, I have aTwitterfeed in the lower right corner of my main screen, my word processing document in the center and a Gmail session on the other monitor.
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Her days in the word processing department were over and she was the assistant to one of the most influential lawyers in New York City.
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However, Hameroff was going beyond that to suggest that not only does anesthesia disrupt the tubulin processing but that the processing is quantum, not classical.
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But by loading different types of software, whether a word processing program, a graphic design program, or an e-mail program, you can get your computer to perform different functions.
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When I use my word processing program on my laptop computer, in the righthand corner of my screen sits a little wizard who turns his head, blinks his eyes, raises his hands, and every now and again nods his head in approval.
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He calls up a word processing window and begins anew.
GHibbs commented on the word processing
My adjectival use: 'I don't use a food processing machine.'
August 23, 2011