Process

Gujarati Meaning

English Meaning

1. A series of actions, changes, or functions bringing about a result: the process of digestion; the process of obtaining a driver's license.
2. A series of operations performed in the making or treatment of a product: a manufacturing process; leather dyed during the tanning process.
3. Progress; passage: the process of time; events now in process.
4. Law The entire course of a judicial proceeding.
5. Law A summons or writ ordering a defendant to appear in court.
6. Law The total quantity of summonses or writs issued in a particular proceeding.
7. Biology An outgrowth of tissue; a projecting part: a bony process.
8. Any of various photomechanical or photoengraving methods.
9. Computer Science A running software program or other computing operation.
10. Computer Science A part of a running software program or other computing operation that does a single task.
11. See conk3.
12. To put through the steps of a prescribed procedure: processing newly arrived immigrants; process an order.
13. To prepare, treat, or convert by subjecting to a special process: process ore to obtain minerals.
14. Law To serve with a summons or writ.
15. Law To institute legal proceedings against; prosecute.
16. Computer Science To perform operations on (data).
17. To gain an understanding or acceptance of; come to terms with: processed the traumatic event in therapy.
18. To straighten (hair) by a chemical process; conk.
19. Prepared or converted by a special process: process cheese.
20. Made by or used in any of several photomechanical or photoengraving processes: a process print.
21. To move along in or as if in a procession: "The man in the panama hat offered his arm and ... they processed into the dining room” ( Anita Brookner).