Process vs. Complete — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Process and Complete
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Process
A series of actions, changes, or functions bringing about a result
The process of digestion.
The process of obtaining a driver's license.
Complete
Having all necessary or normal parts, components, or steps; entire
A complete medical history.
A complete set of dishes.
Process
A series of operations performed in the making or treatment of a product
A manufacturing process.
Leather dyed during the tanning process.
Complete
(Botany) Having all principal parts, namely, the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistil or pistils. Used of a flower.
Process
Progress; passage
The process of time.
Events now in process.
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Complete
Having come to an end; concluded
The renovation of the kitchen is complete.
Process
The use of the law courts and other fora as a means of seeking redress
The adversarial process.
Due process of law.
Complete
Absolute; thorough
Complete control.
A complete mystery.
Process
The set of actions and events that constitute a legal proceeding or a significant portion thereof
The trial process.
The sentencing process.
Complete
Accomplished; consummate
A complete musician.
Process
(Law) A means of compelling a person to appear in court, especially a summons ordering a defendant to appear in court.
Complete
(Football) Caught in bounds by a receiver
A complete pass.
Process
(Biology) An outgrowth of tissue; a projecting part
A bony process.
Complete
To bring to a finish or an end
She has completed her studies.
Process
Any of various photomechanical or photoengraving methods.
Complete
To make whole, with all necessary elements or parts
A second child would complete their family. Fill in the blanks to complete the form.
Process
A running software program or other computing operation.
Complete
(Football) To throw (a forward pass) that is caught in bounds by a receiver.
Process
A part of a running software program or other computing operation that does a single task.
Complete
(ambitransitive) To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
He completed the assignment on time.
Process
See conk3.
Complete
(transitive) To make whole or entire.
The last chapter completes the book nicely.
Process
To put through the steps of a prescribed procedure
Processing newly arrived immigrants.
Process an order.
Complete
(poker) To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.
Process
To prepare, treat, or convert by subjecting to a special process
Process ore to obtain minerals.
Complete
With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
My life will be complete once I buy this new television.
She offered me complete control of the project.
After she found the rook, the chess set was complete.
Process
(Computers) To perform operations on (data).
Complete
Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
When your homework is complete, you can go and play with Martin.
Process
To gain an understanding or acceptance of; come to terms with
Processed the traumatic event in therapy.
Complete
Generic intensifier.
He is a complete bastard!
It was a complete shock when he turned up on my doorstep.
Our vacation was a complete disaster.
Process
To straighten (hair) by a chemical process; conk.
Complete
In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
Process
To move along in a procession
"The man in the panama hat offered his arm and ... they processed into the dining room" (Anita Brookner).
Complete
In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
Process
Prepared or converted by a special process
Process cheese.
Complete
In which all small limits exist.
Process
Made by or used in any of several photomechanical or photoengraving processes
A process print.
Complete
In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.
Process
A series of events which produce a result (the product).
This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
Complete
That is in a given complexity class and is such that every other problem in the class can be reduced to it (usually in polynomial time or logarithmic space).
Process
(manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.
Complete
Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.
Ye are complete in him.
That thou, dead corse, again in complete steelRevisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon.
Process
A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
Complete
Finished; ended; concluded; completed; as, the edifice is complete.
This course of vanity almost complete.
Process
(anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
Complete
Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil.
Process
(legal) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
Complete
To bring to a state in which there is no deficiency; to perfect; to consummate; to accomplish; to fulfill; to finish; as, to complete a task, or a poem; to complete a course of education.
Bred only and completed to the tasteOf lustful appetence.
And, to complete her bliss, a fool for mate.
Process
(biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
Complete
Come or bring to a finish or an end;
He finished the dishes
She completed the requirements for her Master's Degree
The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours
Process
(anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
Complete
Bring to a whole, with all the necessary parts or elements;
A child would complete the family
Process
(computing) An executable task or program.
Complete
Complete or carry out;
Discharge one's duties
Process
The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.
Complete
Complete a pass
Process
(transitive) To perform a particular process on a thing.
Complete
Write all the required information onto a form;
Fill out this questionnaire, please!
Make out a form
Process
(transitive) To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.
We have processed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions.
Complete
Having every necessary or normal part or component or step;
A complete meal
A complete wardrobe
A complete set pf the Britannica
A complete set of china
A complete defeat
A complete accounting
An incomplete flower
Process
To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.
I didn't know she had a criminal record. That will take me a while to process.
Complete
Perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities;
A complete gentleman
Consummate happiness
A consummate performance
Process
To develop photographic film.
Complete
Having all four whorls or principal parts--sepals and petals and stamens and carpels (or pistils);
Complete flowers
Process
To take legal proceedings against.
Complete
Highly skilled;
An accomplished pianist
A complete musician
Process
To walk in a procession
Complete
Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;
An arrant fool
A complete coward
A consummate fool
A double-dyed villain
Gross negligence
A perfect idiot
Pure folly
What a sodding mess
Stark staring mad
A thoroughgoing villain
Utter nonsense
Process
The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.
The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Complete
Having come or been brought to a conclusion;
The harvesting was complete
The affair is over, ended, finished
The abruptly terminated interview
Process
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.
Process
A statement of events; a narrative.
Process
Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.
Process
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.
Process
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
Process
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
Process
(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents;
The process of thinking
The cognitive operation of remembering
Process
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
Process
A mental process that you are not directly aware of;
The process of denial
Process
A natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant;
A bony process
Process
Deal with in a routine way;
I'll handle that one
Process a loan
Process the applicants
Process
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
Process
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
Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against;
He was warned that the district attorney would process him
She actioned the company for discrimination
Process
Shape, form, or improve a material;
Work stone into tools
Process iron
Work the metal
Process
Deliver a warrant or summons to someone;
He was processed by the sheriff
Process
March in a procession;
They processed into the dining room
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