Process Meaning
/ˈpɹəʊ.sɛs/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA series of events leading to a result or product.
nounThe set of procedures used in the manufacture of a product, especially in the food and chemical industries.
Sentence Examples
The advancement of modern medicine was a long process.
There is no easy process of learning.
Recovery after the accident will be a continuous process that may take several months.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The factory uses a special ____ to turn raw materials into finished products.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The factory uses an automated ____ to sort and package the products before shipping.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English proces, from Old French procés (“journey”), from Latin prōcessus (“course, progression”), nominalization of prōcēdō (“proceed, advance”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 2011 September 27, Alistair Magowan, “Bayern Munich 2-0 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
"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."
— 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
"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."
— 2019 October, John Glover, “Heathrow rail expansion”, in Modern Railways, page 73:
"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."
— 2012 January 26, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2012, page 23:
"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"
— 1711, John Spotiswood, The Form of Process, section 39:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The factory uses a special ____ to turn raw materials into finished products.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The factory uses an automated ____ to sort and package the products before shipping.