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Process vs. Complete — What's the Difference?

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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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