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Probationship (n.) A state of probation.
Probative (a.) 嘗試性的；供作證明或證據的 Serving for trial or proof; probationary; as, probative judgments; probative evidence. -- South.
Probative (a.) Tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation; "evidence should only be excluded if its probative value was outweighed by its prejudicial effect" [syn: probative, probatory].
Probator (n.) [L.] An examiner; an approver. -- Maydman.
Probator (n.) (O. Eng. Law) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state's evidence.
Probator. () Ancient English law. Strictly, an accomplice in felony, who to save himself confessed the fact, and charged or accused any other as principal or accessary, against whom he was bound to make good his charge.
It also signified an approver, or one who undertakes to prove a crime charged upon another. Jacob's Law Dict. h.t.
Probatory (a.) Serving for trial; probationary. -- Abp. Bramhall.
Probatory (a.) Pertaining to, or serving for, proof. -- Jer. Taylor.
Probatory term (Law), A time for taking testimony.
Compare: Testimony
Testimony (n.) 【律】證詞，證言 [C] [U] [+that]；證據，證明；表徵 [C][U] [（+of/ to）] [+that] A solemn declaration or affirmation made for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact.
Note: Such declaration, in judicial proceedings, may be verbal or written, but must be under oath or affirmation.
Testimony (n.) Affirmation; declaration; as, these doctrines are supported by the uniform testimony of the fathers; the belief of past facts must depend on the evidence of human testimony, or the testimony of historians.
Testimony (n.) Open attestation; profession.
[Thou] for the testimony of truth, hast borne Universal reproach. -- Milton.
Testimony (n.) Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.
When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. -- Mark vi. 11.
Testimony (n.) (Jewish Antiq.) The two tables of the law.
Thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. -- Ex. xxv. 16.
Testimony (n.) Hence, the whole divine revelation; the sacre? Scriptures.
The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. -- Ps. xix. 7.
Syn: Proof; evidence; attestation; witness; affirmation; confirmation; averment.
Usage: Testimony, Proof, Evidence. Proof is the most familiar, and is used more frequently (though not exclusively) of facts and things which occur in the ordinary concerns of life. Evidence is a word of more dignity, and is more generally applied to that which is moral or intellectual; as, the evidences of Christianity, etc. Testimony is what is deposed to by a witness on oath or affirmation. When used figuratively or in a wider sense, the word testimony has still a reference to some living agent as its author, as when we speak of the testimony of conscience, or of doing a thing in testimony of our affection, etc. Testimony refers rather to the thing declared, evidence to its value or effect. "To conform our language more to common use, we ought to divide arguments into demonstrations, proofs, and probabilities; ba proofs, meaning such arguments from experience as leave no room for doubt or opposition." -- Hume. "The evidence of sense is the first and highest kind of evidence of which human nature is capable." --Bp. Wilkins. "The proof of everything must be by the testimony of such as the parties produce." -- Spenser.
Testimony (v. t.) To witness; to attest; to prove by testimony. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Testimony (n.) A solemn statement made under oath.
Testimony (n.) An assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact; "according to his own testimony he can't do it".
Testimony (n.) Something that serves as evidence; "his effort was testimony to his devotion" [syn: testimony, testimonial].
Testimony, () Witness or evidence (2 Thess. 1:10).
Testimony, () The Scriptures, as the revelation of God's will (2 Kings 11:12; Ps. 19:7; 119:88; Isa. 8:16, 20).
Testimony, () The altar raised by the Gadites and Reubenites (Josh. 22:10).
Testimony, () evidence. The statement made by a witness under oath or affirmation. Vide Bill to perpetuate testimony.
Probatory (a.) Tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation; "evidence should only be excluded if its probative value was outweighed by its prejudicial effect" [syn: probative, probatory].
Probed (imp. & p. p.) of Probe.
Probing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Probe.
Probe (v. t.) 用探針（或探測器）探查，探測；刺探；徹底調查 To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe.
Probe (v. t.) Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly. -- Dryden.
The growing disposition to probe the legality of all acts, of the crown. -- Hallam.
Probe (n.) (Surg.) [C] 【醫】探針，探子；（對傷處等的）針探，探查 An instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc. -- Parr.
Probe scissors, or Probe-pointed scissors (Surg.), scissors used to open wounds, the blade of which, to be thrust into the orifice, has a button at the end. -- Wiseman.
Probe (n.) An inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities; "there was a congressional probe into the scandal" [syn: probe, investigation].
Probe (n.) A flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities.
Probe (n.) An exploratory action or expedition.
Probe (n.) An investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity.
Probe (v.) (v. i.) 查究；調查 [（+for/ into）] Question or examine thoroughly and closely [syn: probe, examine].
Probe (v.) (v. i.) 用探針（或探測器）探查，探測[（+for）] Examine physically with or as if with a probe; "probe an anthill" [syn: probe, dig into, poke into].
Probe, () An object-oriented logic language based on ObjVlisp.
["Proposition d'une Extension Objet Minimale pour Prolog", Actes du Sem Prog en Logique, Tregastel (May 1987), pp. 483-506].
Probeagle (n.) (Zool.) See Porbeagle.
Probe-pointed (a.) (Surg.) Having a blunt or button-shaped extremity; -- said of cutting instruments.
Probit (n.) (pl. probits) (Statistics) 概率單位；機率單位；常態機率 A unit, derived from a standard distribution, used in measuring the responses to doses.
Probit (n.) The probit function, the inverse of the cumulative distribution function.
Probit (n.) In probability theory and statistics, the probit function is the quantile function, i.e., the inverse cumulative distribution function, associated with the standard normal distribution. It has applications in exploratory statistical graphics and specialized regression modeling of binary response variables. The standard normal distribution is commonly denoted as N and its CDF as . Function is a continuous, monotone increasing sigmoid function whose domain is the real line and range is. As an example, consider the familiar fact that the N distribution places 95% of probability between −1.96 and 1.96, and is symmetric around zero. It follows that The probit function gives the 'inverse' computation, generating a value of an N random variable, associated with specified cumulative probability. Formally, the probit function is the inverse of, denoted . Continuing the example, In general, The idea of probit was published in 1934 by Chester Ittner Bliss in an article in Science on how to treat data such as the percentage of a pest killed by a pesticide. Bliss proposed transforming the percentage killed into a "probability unit" which was linearly related to the modern definition. He included a table to aid other researchers to convert their kill percentages to his probit, which they could then plot against the logarithm of the dose and thereby, it was hoped, obtain a more or less straight line. Such a so-called probit model is still important in toxicology, as well as other fields. The approach is justified in particular if response variation can be rationalized as a lognormal distribution of tolerances among subjects on test, where the tolerance of a particular subject is the dose just sufficient for the response of interest.
Probit (n.) A statistical measurement.
Probit (n.) (Statistics) A unit of probability based on deviation from the mean of a standard distribution.
Probity (n.) 誠實；廉潔 Tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness. "Probity of mind." -- Pope.
Syn: {Probity}, {Integrity}.
Usage: Probity denotes unimpeachable honesty and virtue, shown especially by the performance of those obligations, called imperfect, which the laws of the state do not reach, and can not enforce. Integrity denotes a whole-hearted honesty, and especially that which excludes all injustice that might favor one's self. It has a peculiar reference to uprightness in mutual dealings, transfer of property, and the execution of trusts for others.
Probity (n.) Complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles; "in a world where financial probity may not be widespread"; "he enjoys an exaggerated reputation for probity".
Probity (n.). Justice, honesty. A man of probity is one who loves justice and honesty, and who dislikes the contrary. Wolff, Dr. de la Nat. Sec. 772.
Probity (n.) [ U ] (Formal) 誠實 Complete honesty.
// Her probity and integrity are beyond question.
Problem (n.) A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a question involving doubt. --Bacon.
Problem (n.) (Math.) Anything which is required to be done; as, in geometry, to bisect a line, to draw a perpendicular; or, in algebra, to find an unknown quantity.
Note: Problem differs from theorem in this, that a problem is something to be done, as to bisect a triangle, to describe a circle, etc.; a theorem is something to be proved, as that all the angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles.
Plane problem (Geom.), A problem that can be solved by the use of the rule and compass.
Solid problem (Geom.), A problem requiring in its geometric solution the use of a conic section or higher curve. Problematic
Problem (n.) A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved; "she and her husband are having problems"; "it is always a job to contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog" [syn: problem, job].
Problem (n.) A question raised for consideration or solution; "our homework consisted of ten problems to solve"
Problem (n.) A source of difficulty; "one trouble after another delayed the job"; "what's the problem?" [syn: trouble, problem].
Problematic (a.) Alt. of Problematical.
Problematical (a.) Having the nature of a problem; not shown in fact; questionable; uncertain; unsettled; doubtful ; as, his
theory is problematic because it fails to explain several facts. -- Prob`lem*at"ic*al*ly, adv.
Diligent inquiries into remote and problematical guilt leave a gate wide open to . . . informers. -- Swift.
Problematical (a.) Having characteristics which will create difficulties or undesirable consequences; -- of a proposed action; as, the proposed law is problematic because it will cause many people to lose their jobs.
Problematic (a.) Open to doubt or debate; "If you ever get married, which
seems to be extremely problematic" [syn: debatable, problematic, problematical].
Problematic (a.) Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home" [syn: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough].
Problematist (n.) One who proposes problems. [R.] -- Evelyn.
Problematize (v. t.) To propose problems. [R.] "Hear him problematize." -- B. Jonson.
Proboscidate (a.) (Zool.) Having a proboscis; proboscidial.
Proboscidea (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of large mammals including the elephants and mastodons.
Proboscidean (a.) (Zool.) Proboscidian.
Proboscidean (n.) Massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk [syn: proboscidean, proboscidian].
Proboscidial (a.) (Zool.) Proboscidate.
Proboscidian (a.) (Zool.) Pertaining to the Proboscidea.
Proboscidian (n.) One of the Proboscidea.
Proboscidian (n.) Massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk [syn: proboscidean, proboscidian].
Proboscidifera (n. pl.) (Zool.) An extensive division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, including those that have a long retractile proboscis, with the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle.
Proboscidifera (n. pl.) (Zool.) A subdivision of the taenioglossate gastropods, including the fig-shells ({Pyrula), the helmet shells ({Cassis), the tritons, and allied genera.
Proboscidiform (a.) Having the form or uses of a proboscis; as, a proboscidiform mouth.
Proboscides (n. pl. ) of Proboscis.
Proboscis (n.) (Zool.) A hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk.
Note: The proboscis of an elephant is a flexible muscular elongation of the nose. The proboscis of insects is usually a chitinous tube formed by the modified maxill[ae], or by the labium. See Illusts. Of Hemiptera and Lepidoptera.
Proboscis (n.) (Zool.) By extension, applied to various tubelike mouth organs of the lower animals that can be everted or protruded.
Note: The proboscis of annelids and of mollusks is usually a portion of the pharynx that can be everted or protruded. That of nemerteans is a special long internal organ, not connected with the mouth, and not used in feeding, but capable of being protruded from a pore in the head. See Illust. in Appendix.
Proboscis (n.) The nose. [Jocose]
Proboscis monkey. (Zool.) See Kahau.
Proboscis (n.) The human nose (especially when it is large).
Proboscis (n.) A long flexible snout as of an elephant [syn: proboscis, trunk].
Proboscis, (n.) The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him.
For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.
Asked how he knew that an elephant was going on a journey, the illustrious Jo. Miller cast a reproachful look upon his tormentor, and answered, absently: "When it is ajar," and threw himself from a high promontory into the sea. Thus perished in his pride the most famous humorist of antiquity, leaving to mankind a heritage of woe! No successor worthy of the title has appeared, though Mr. Edward Bok, of _The Ladies' Home Journal_, is much respected for the purity and sweetness of his personal character.
Procacious (a.) Pert; petulant; forward; saucy. [R.] -- Barrow.
Procacity (n.) Forwardness; pertness; petulance. [R.] -- Burton.
Procambium (n.) (Bot.) The
young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to
be differentiated. --Sachs.
Procatarctic (a.) (Med.) Beginning; predisposing;
exciting; initial. [Obs.]
Note: The words procatarctic causes have been used with different significations. Thus they have been employed synonymously with prime causes, exciting causes, and predisposing or remote causes.
The physician inquires into the procatarctic causes. -- Harvey.
Procatarxis (n.) (Med.) The kindling of a disease into action; also, the procatarctic cause. -- Quincy.
Procedendo (n.) (Law) A writ by which a cause which has been removed on insufficient grounds from an inferior to a superior court by certiorari, or otherwise, is sent down again to the same court, to be proceeded in there.
Procedendo (n.) In English practice, a writ issuing out of chancery in cases where the judges of subordinate courts delay giving judgment, commanding them to proceed to judgment.
Procedendo (n.) A writ by which the commission of the justice of the peace is revived, after having been suspended. -- Tomlins.
Burrill.
PROCEDENDO, () practice. A writ which issues where an action is removed from an inferior to a superior jurisdiction by habeas corpus, certiorari or writ of privilege, and it does not appear to such superior court that the suggestion upon which the cause has been removed, is sufficiently proved; in which case the superior court by this writ remits the cause to the court from whence it came, commanding the inferior court to proceed to the final hearing and determination of the same. See 1 Chit. R. 575; 2 Bl. R. 1060 1 Str. R. 527; 6 T. R. 365; 4 B. & A. 535; 16 East, R. 387.
Procedure (n.) The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct. "The true procedure of conscience." -- South.
Procedure (n.) A step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding. "Gracious procedures." -- I. Taylor.
Procedure (n.) That which results; issue; product. [Obs.] --Bacon.
Procedure (n.) A particular course of action intended to achieve a result; "the procedure of obtaining a driver's license"; "it was a process of trial and error" [syn: procedure, process].
Procedure (n.) A process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work; "the operations in building a house"; "certain machine tool operations" [syn: operation, procedure].
Procedure (n.) A set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program [syn: routine, subroutine, subprogram, procedure, function].
Procedure (n.) A mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings.
Subroutine
Procedure
Routine
(Or "procedure") A sequence of instructions for performing a particular task. Most programming languages, including most machine languages, allow the programmer to define subroutines. This allows the subroutine code to be called from multiple places, even from within itself (in which case it is called recursive). The programming language implementation takes care of returning control to (just after) the calling location, usually with the support of call and return instructions at machine language level.
Most languages also allow arguments to be passed to the subroutine, and one, or occasionally more, return values to be passed back.
A function is often very similar to a subroutine, the main difference being that it is called chiefly for its return value, rather than for any side effects.
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Proceeded (imp. & p. p.) of Proceed.
Proceeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Proceed.
Proceed (v. i.) To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.
If thou proceed in this thy insolence. -- Shak.
Proceed (v. i.) To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another; as, to proceed with a story or argument.
Proceed (v. i.) To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from; as, light proceeds from the sun.
I proceeded forth and came from God. -- John viii. 42.
It proceeds from policy, not love. -- Shak.
Proceed (v. i.) To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design.
He that
proceeds upon other principles in his inquiry. -- Locke.
Proceed (v. i.) To be transacted; to take place; to occur. [Obs.]
He will, after his sour fashion, tell you What hath proceeded worthy note to-day. -- Shak.
Proceed (v. i.) To have application or effect; to operate.
This rule only proceeds and takes place when a person can not of common law condemn another by his sentence. -- Ayliffe.
Proceed (v. i.) (Law) To begin and carry on a legal process.
Syn: To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate.
Proceed (n.) See Proceeds. [Obs.] -- Howell.
Proceed (v.) Continue talking; "I know it's hard," he continued, "but there is no choice"; "carry on--pretend we are not in the room" [syn: continue, go on, carry on, proceed].
Proceed (v.) Move ahead; travel onward in time or space; "We proceeded towards Washington"; "She continued in the direction of the hills"; "We are moving ahead in time now" [syn: proceed, go forward, continue].
Proceed (v.) Follow a procedure or take a course; "We should go farther in this matter"; "She went through a lot of trouble"; "go about the world in a certain manner"; "Messages must go through diplomatic channels" [syn: go, proceed, move].
Proceed (v.) Follow a certain course; "The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go?" [syn: proceed, go].
Proceed (v.) Continue a certain state, condition, or activity; "Keep on working!"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight" [syn: continue, go on, proceed, go along, keep] [ant: discontinue].
Proceeder (n.) One who proceeds.
Proceeding (n.) The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction; progress or movement from one thing to another; a measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a violent proceeding.
The proceedings of the high commission. -- Macaulay.
Proceeding (n.) pl. (Law) The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law. -- Blackstone.
Proceedings of a society, The published record of its action, or of things done at its meetings.
Syn: Procedure; measure; step, See Transaction.
Proceeding (n.) (Law) The institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked [syn: proceeding, legal proceeding, proceedings].
PROCEEDING. () In its general acceptation, this word means the form in which actions are to be brought and defended, the manner of intervening in suits, of conducting them, the mode of deciding them, of opposing judgments and of executing.
PROCEEDING. () Proceedings are ordinary and summary. 1. By ordinary proceedings are understood the regular and usual mode of carrying on, a suit by due course at common law. 2. Summary proceedings are those when the matter in dispute is decided without the intervention of a jury; these must be authorized by the legislature, except perhaps in cages of contempts, for such proceedings are unknown to the common law.
PROCEEDING. () In Louisiana, there is a third kind of proceeding, known by the name of executory proceeding, which is resorted to in the following cases: 1. When the creditor's right arises from an act importing a confession of judgment, and which contains a privilege or mortgage in his favor. 2. When the creditor demands the execution of a judgment which has been rendered by a tribunal different from that within whose jurisdiction the execution is sought. Code of Practice, art. 732.
PROCEEDING. () 4. In New York the code of practice divides remedies into actions and special proceedings. An action is a regular judicial proceeding, in which one party prosecutes another party for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offence. Every other remedy is a special proceeding. Sec. 2.
Proceeds (n. pl.) That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc.
Proceeds (n.) The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; "the average return was about 5%" [syn: return, issue, take, takings, proceeds, yield, payoff].
Proceleusmatic (a.) Inciting; animating; encouraging. [R.] -- Johnson.
Proceleusmatic (a.) (Pros.) Consisting of four short syllables; composed of feet of four short syllables each.
Proceleusmatic (n.) (Pros.) A foot consisting of four short syllables.
Procellarian (n.) (Zool.) One of a family of oceanic birds ({Procellaridae) including the petrels, fulmars, and shearwaters. They are often seen in great abundance in stormy weather.
Procellous (a.) Stormy. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Procephalic (a.) (Zool.) Pertaining to, or forming, the front of the head.
Procephalic lobe (Zool.), That part of the head of an invertebrate animal which is in front of the mouth.
Proception (n.) Preoccupation. [Obs.] -- Eikon Basilik?.
Procere (a.) Of high stature; tall. [Obs.] -- Evelyn.
PROCERES. () The name by which the chief magistrates in cities were formerly known. St. Armand, Hist. Eq. 88.
Procerebrum (n.) (Anat.) The prosencephalon.
Proceres (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of large birds; the Ratit[ae]; -- called also {Proceri">{Proceri.
Procerite (n.) (Zool.) The segment next to the flagellum of the antennae of Crustacea.
Procerity (n.) Height of stature; tallness. [R.] -- Johnson.
Process (n.) The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance. "Long process of time." -- Milton.
The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. -- Tennyson.
Process (n.) A series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature.
Tell her the process of Antonio's end. -- Shak.
Process (n.) A statement of events; a narrative. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Process (n.) (Anat. & Zool.) Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.
Process (n.) (Law) The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; -- a generic term for writs of the class called judicial.
Deacon's process [from H. Deacon, who introduced it] (Chem.), A method of obtaining chlorine gas by passin hydrochloric acid gas over heated slag which has been previously saturated with a solution of some metallic salt, as sulphate of copper.
Final process (Practice), A writ of execution in an action at law. -- Burrill.
In process, In the condition of advance, accomplishment, transaction, or the like; begun, and not completed.
Jury process (Law), The process by which a jury is summoned in a cause, and by which their attendance is enforced. -- Burrill.
Leblanc's process (Chem.), The process of manufacturing soda by treating salt with sulphuric acid, reducing the sodium sulphate so formed to sodium sulphide by roasting with charcoal, and converting the sodium sulphide to sodium carbonate by roasting with lime.
Mesne process. See under Mesne.
Process milling, The process of high milling for grinding flour. See under Milling.
Reversible process (Thermodynamics), Any process consisting of a cycle of operations such that the different operations of the cycle can be performed in reverse order with a reversal of their effects.
Process (n.) A particular course of action intended to achieve a result; "the procedure of obtaining a driver's license"; "it was a process of trial and error" [syn: procedure, process].
Process (n.) (Psychology) The performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering" [syn: process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation].
Process (n.) 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 [syn: summons, process].
Process (n.) A mental process that you are not directly aware of; "the process of denial" [syn: process, unconscious process].
Process (n.) A natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process" [syn: process, outgrowth, appendage].
Process (n.) 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" [syn: process, physical process].
Process (v.) Subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill" [syn: process, treat].
Process (v.) Deal with in a routine way; "I'll handle that one"; "process a loan"; "process the applicants".
Process (v.) Perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information; "The results of the elections were still being processed when he gave his acceptance speech".
Process (v.) Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination" [syn: action, sue, litigate, process].
Process (v.) March in a procession; "They processed into the dining room" [syn: march, process].
Process (v.) Shape, form, or improve a material; "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal" [syn: work, work on, process].
Process (v.) Deliver a warrant or summons to someone; "He was processed by the sheriff" [syn: serve, process, swear out].
Process, () The sequence of states of an executing program. A process consists of the program code (which may be shared with other processes which are executing the same program), private data, and the state of the processor, particularly the values in its registers. It may have other associated resources such as a process identifier, open files, CPU time limits, shared memory, child processes, and signal handlers.
One process may, On some platforms, consist of many threads. A multitasking operating system can run multiple processes concurrently or in parallel, and allows a process to spawn "child" processes.
Process, () The sequence of activities, people, and systems involved in carrying out some business or achieving some desired result. E.g. software development process, project management process, configuration management process.
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PROCESS, () rights. The means or method of accomplishing a thing.
PROCESS, () It has been said that the word manufacture, (q.v.) in the patent laws, may, perhaps, extend to a new process, to be carried on by known implements, or elements, acting upon known substances, and ultimately producing some other known substance, but producing it in a cheaper or more expeditious manner, or of a better and more useful kind. 2 B. & Ald. 349. See Perpigna, Manuel des Inventeurs, &c., c. 1; s. 5, Sec. 1, p. 22, 4th ed.; Manufacture; Method.
PROCESS, () practice. So denominated because it proceeds or issues forth in order to bring the defendant into court, to answer the charge preferred against him, and signifies the writ or judicial means by which he is brought to answer. 1 Paine, R. 368 Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
PROCESS, () In the English law, process in civil causes is called original process, when it is founded upon the original writ; and also to distinguish it from mesne or intermediate process, which issues pending the suit, upon some collateral interlocutory matter, as, to summon juries, witnesses,, and the like; mesne process is also sometimes put in contradistinction to final process, or process of execution; and then it signifies all process which intervenes between the beginning and end of a suit. 3 Bl. Com. 279.
PROCESS, () In criminal cases that proceeding which is called a warrant, before the finding of the bill, is termed process when issued after the indictment has been found by the jury. Vide 4 Bl. Com. 319; Dalt. J. c. 193; Com. Dig. Process, A 1; Burn's Dig. Process; Williams, J, Process; 1 Chit. Cr. Law, 338; 17 Vin. Ab. 585.
PROCESS, () The word process in the 12th section of the 5th article of the constitution of Pennsylvania, which provides that "the style of all process shall be The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania," was intended to refer to such writs only as should become necessary to be issued in the course of the exercise of that judicial power which is established and provided for in the article of the constitution, and forms exclusively the subject matter of it.
3 Penna. R. 99.
PROCESS, MESNE, () practice. By this term is generally understood any writ issued in the course of a suit between the original process and execution.
PROCESS, MESNE, () By this term is also meant the writ or proceedings in an action to summon or bring the defendant into court, or compel him to appear or put in bail, and then to hear and answer the plaintiffs claim. 3 Chit. Pr. 140.
Procession (n.) The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course. -- Bp. Pearson.
That the procession of their life might be More equable, majestic, pure, and free. -- Trench.
Procession (n.) That which is moving onward in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a ceremonious train; a retinue; as, a procession of mourners; the Lord Mayor's procession.
Here comes the townsmen on procession. -- Shak.
Procession (n.) (Eccl.) An orderly and ceremonial progress of persons, either from the sacristy to the choir, or from the choir around the church, within or without. -- Shipley.
Procession (n.) pl. (Eccl.) An old term for litanies which were said in procession and not kneeling. -- Shipley.
Procession of the Holy Ghost, A theological term applied to the relation of the Holy Spirit to the Father and the Son, the Eastern Church affirming that the Spirit proceeds from the Father only, and the Western Church that the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. -- Shipley.
Procession week, A name for Rogation week, when processions were made; Cross-week. -- Shipley.
Procession (v. t.) (Law) To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of, as lands. [Local, U. S. (North Carolina and Tennessee).] "To procession the lands of such persons as desire it." -- Burrill.
Procession (v. i.) To march in procession. [R.]
Procession (v. i.) To honor with a procession. [R.]
Procession (n.) (Theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost; "the emanation of the Holy Spirit"; "the rising of the Holy Ghost"; "the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son" [syn: emanation, rise, procession].
Procession (n.) The group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation; "processions were forbidden".
Procession (n.) The act of moving forward (as toward a goal) [syn: progress, progression, procession, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion] [ant: retreat].
Processional (a.) Of or pertaining to a procession; consisting in a procession.
The processional services became more frequent. -- Milman.
Processional (n.) (R. C. Ch.) A service book relating to ecclesiastical processions. -- J. Gregory.
Processional (n.) A hymn, or other selection, sung during a church procession; as, the processional was the 202d hymn.
Processional (a.) Intended for use in a procession; "processional music"; "processional cross".
Processional (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of a procession; "in good processional order".
Processional (n.) Religious music used in a procession [syn: processional, prosodion].
Processionalist (n.) One who goes or marches in a procession. [R.]
Processionary (a.) Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service.
Processionary moth (Zool.), any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially Cnethocampa processionea of Europe, whose larv[ae] make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular order. They are covered with stinging hairs.
Processioner (n.) One who takes part in a procession.
Processioner (n.) A manual of processions; a processional. -- Fuller.
Processioner (n.) An officer appointed to procession lands. [Local, U. S. (North Carolina and Tennessee).] -- Burrill.
Processioning (n.) A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession. [ Local, U. S.] -- Bouvier.
Processive (a.) Proceeding; advancing.
Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. -- Coleridge.
Proces verbal () [ F.] (French Law) An authentic minute of an official act, or statement of facts.
PROCES VERBAL, () French law. A true relation in writing in due form of law of what has been done and said verbally in the presence of a public officer, and what he himself does upon the occasion. It is a species of inquisition of office.
PROCES VERBAL, () The proces verbal should be dated, contain the name, qualities, and residence of the public functionary who makes it, the cause of complaint, the existence of the crime, that which serves to substantiate the charge, point out its nature, the time, the place, the circumstances, state the proofs and presumptions, describe the place, in a word, everything calculated to ascertain the truth. It must be signed by the officer. Dall. Dict. h.t.
Prochein (a.) Next; nearest.
Prochein ami or Prochein amy (Law), The next friend. See under Next.
PROCHEIN. Next. This word is frequently used in composition; as, prochein amy, prochein cousin, and the like. Co. Lit. 10.
Prochordal (a.) (Anat.) Situated in front of the notochord; -- applied especially to parts of the cartilaginous rudiments in the base of the skull.
Prochronism (n.) The dating of an event before the time it happened; an antedating; -- opposed to metachronism.
Prochronize (v. t.) To antedate. -- Fitzed. Hall. Procidence
Procidence (n.) Alt. of Procidentia.
Procidentia (n.) (Med.) A falling down; a prolapsus. [R.] -- Parr.
Prociduous (a.) [ L. prociduus.] Falling from its proper place.