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.
Larry Magid: Happy 30th Anniversary IBM PC Larry Magid 2011
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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.
Larry Magid: Happy 30th Anniversary IBM PC Larry Magid 2011
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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.
Larry Magid: Struggling With Information Overload Larry Magid 2011
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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.
Larry Magid: Struggling With Information Overload Larry Magid 2011
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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.
Larry Magid: Struggling With Information Overload Larry Magid 2011
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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.
Color Me Grey Michelle Janine Robinson 2010
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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.
Damn Duck 2008
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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.
The UltraMetabolism Cookbook M.D. Mark Hyman 2007
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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.
The G.O.D. Experiments Gary E. Schwartz 2006
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He calls up a word processing window and begins anew.
Orbit John J. Nance 2006
GHibbs commented on the word processing
My adjectival use: 'I don't use a food processing machine.'
August 23, 2011