Scrabble?! PROCESS

Definitions of PROCESS in various dictionaries:

noun - a particular course of action intended to achieve a result

noun - (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity

noun - a writ issued by authority of law

noun - a mental process that you are not directly aware of

noun - a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant

noun - a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states

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

verb - deal with in a routine way

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

verb - institute legal proceedings against

verb - march in a procession

verb - shape, form, or improve a material

verb - deliver a warrant or summons to someone

A series of actions, changes, or functions bringing about a result: the process of digestion; the process of obtaining a driver’s license.

A series of operations performed in the making or treatment of a product: a manufacturing process; leather dyed during the tanning process.

Progress; passage: the process of time; events now in process.

The entire course of a judicial proceeding.

Law.

A summons or writ ordering a defendant to appear in court.

The total quantity of summonses or writs issued in a particular proceeding.

An outgrowth of tissue; a projecting part: a bony process.

Any of various photomechanical or photoengraving methods.

To put through the steps of a prescribed procedure: processing newly arrived immigrants; received the order, processed it, and dispatched the goods.

To prepare, treat, or convert by subjecting to a special process: process ore to obtain minerals.

Law.

To serve with a summons or writ.

To institute legal proceedings against; prosecute.

To perform operations on (data).

To straighten (hair) by a chemical process; conk.

Prepared or converted by a special process: process cheese.

In recent years there has been a tendency to pro noun ce the plural ending -es of processes as (-Kz), perhaps by analogy with words of Greek origin such as analysis and neurosis.

verb - to treat or prepare by a special method