A particular course of action intended to achieve a result:
— It was a process of trial and error.

synonym: procedure.

Roget 692: conduct [actions of an individual agent]; behavior; deportment, comportment; carriage, maintien^†, demeanor, guise, bearing, manner, observance.    dealing, transaction etc. (action) 680; business etc. 625.    tactics, game, game plan, policy, polity; generalship, statesmanship, seamanship; strategy, strategics^†; plan etc. 626.    management; husbandry; housekeeping, housewifery; stewardship; menage; regime; economy, economics; political economy; government etc. (direction) 693.    execution, manipulation, treatment, campaign, career, life, course, walk, race, record.    course of conduct, line of conduct, line of action, line of proceeding; role; process, ways, practice, procedure, modus operandi, MO, method of operating; method &c.; path etc. 627.    ... show more

Roget 250: convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity^†, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion; camber, cahot [U.S.].    thank-ye-ma'am [U.S.].    swell.    intumescence; tumour [Brit.], tumor; tubercle, tuberosity [Anat.]; excrescence; hump, hunch, bunch.    boss, embossment, hub, hubble; [convex body parts] tooth [U.S.], knob, elbow, process, apophysis^†, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity^†, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump; sugar loaf etc. (sharpness) 253; bow; mamelon^†; molar; belly, corporation^†, pot belly, gut [Coll.]; withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange.    [convexities on skin] pimple, zit [Slang]; wen, wheel, papula [Med.], pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle^†, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus^†, fungus, fungosity^†, exostosis^†, bleb, blister, blain^†; boil etc. (disease) 655; airbubble^†, blob, papule, verruca.    [convex body parts on chest] papilla, nipple, teat, tit [Vulg.], titty [Vulg.], boob [Vulg.], knocker [Vulg.], pap, breast, dug, mammilla^†.    [prominent convexity on the face] proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz [Coll.].    peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag.    cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves; pilaster.    relief, relievo [It], cameo; bassorilievo^†, mezzorilevo^†, altorivievo; low relief, bas relief [Fr.], high relief.    hill etc. (height) 206; cape, promontory, mull; forehead, foreland^†; point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur; naze^†, ness.    ... show more

Dutch: bereidingswijze, procedure, receptuur
Polish: procedura, postępowanie

psychology The performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents:
— The process of thinking.

synonyms: cognitive operation, cognitive process, mental process, operation.

Polish: proces psychiczny

A writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant.

synonym: summons.

Dutch: aanmaning, maanbrief

A mental process that you are not directly aware of:
— The process of denial.

synonym: unconscious process.

A natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant:
— A bony process.

synonyms: appendage, outgrowth.

Polish: wyrostek

A sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states:
— Events now in process.
— The process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls.

synonym: physical process.

Dutch: fysische processen, proces
Polish: proces

Subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition:
— Process cheese.
— Process hair.

synonym: treat.

Dutch: bewerken, verwerken

Deal with in a routine way.

Perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information.

Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against:
— He was warned that the district attorney would process him.

synonyms: action, litigate, sue.

Dutch: aanklagen, aanspannen

March in a procession:
— They processed into the dining room.

synonym: march.

Shape, form, or improve a material:
— Process iron.

synonyms: work, work on.

Dutch: bewerken

Deliver a warrant or summons to someone:
— He was processed by the sheriff.

synonyms: serve, swear out.