Process vs. Wise

Processnoun

A series of events which produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.

‘This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.’;

Wiseadjective

Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience.

‘Storing extra food for the winter was a wise decision.’; ‘They were considered the wise old men of the administration.’; ‘"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish" - Aeschylus’;

Processnoun

(manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.

Wiseadjective

Disrespectful.

‘Don't get wise with me!’;

Processnoun

A path of succession of states through which a system passes.

Wiseadjective

(colloquial) Aware, informed.

‘Be careful, the boss is wise.’;

Processnoun

(anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.

Wiseverb

To become wise.

Processnoun

(legal) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.

Wiseverb

Usually with "up", to inform or learn.

‘Mo wised him up about his situation.’; ‘''After Mo had a word with him, he wised up.’;

Processnoun

(biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.

Wiseverb

(dialectal) to instruct

Processnoun

(anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.

Wiseverb

(dialectal) to advise; induce

Processnoun

(computing) A task or program that is or was executing.

Wiseverb

(dialectal) to show the way, guide

Processverb

(transitive) to perform a particular process on a thing

Wiseverb

(dialectal) to direct the course of, pilot

Processverb

(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.’;

Wiseverb

(dialectal) to cause to turn

Processverb

(transitive) to think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.

Wisenoun

(archaic) Way, manner, method.

Processverb

To walk in a procession.

Wiseadjective

Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned.

‘They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.’;

Processnoun

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

‘The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.’;

Wiseadjective

Hence, especially, making due use of knowledge; discerning and judging soundly concerning what is true or false, proper or improper; choosing the best ends and the best means for accomplishing them; sagacious.

‘When clouds appear, wise men put their cloaks.’; ‘From a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation.’;

Processnoun

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.’;

Wiseadjective

Versed in art or science; skillful; dexterous; specifically, skilled in divination.

‘Fal. There was, mine host, an old fat woman even now with me; but she's gone.Sim. Pray you, sir, was't not the wise woman of Brentford?’;

Processnoun

A statement of events; a narrative.

Wiseadjective

Hence, prudent; calculating; shrewd; wary; subtle; crafty.

‘Nor, on the other side,Will I be penuriously wiseAs to make money, that's my slave, my idol.’; ‘Lords do not care for me:I am too wise to die yet.’;

Processnoun

Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.

Wiseadjective

Dictated or guided by wisdom; containing or exhibiting wisdom; well adapted to produce good effects; judicious; discreet; as, a wise saying; a wise scheme or plan; wise conduct or management; a wise determination.

‘A very grave, state bachelor, my dainty one;He's wise in years, and of a temperate warmth.’; ‘You are too wise in years, too full of counsel,For my green experience.’;

Processnoun

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.

Wiseadjective

Way of being or acting; manner; mode; fashion.

‘To love her in my beste wyse.’; ‘This song she sings in most commanding wise.’; ‘Let not these blessings then, sent from above,Abused be, or spilt in profane wise.’;

Processnoun

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’;

Wisenoun

a way of doing or being;

‘in no wise’; ‘in this wise’;

Processnoun

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’;

Wisenoun

United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949)

Processnoun

(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents;

‘the process of thinking’; ‘the cognitive operation of remembering’;

Wisenoun

United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900)

Processnoun

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

Wiseadjective

having or prompted by wisdom or discernment;

‘a wise leader’; ‘a wise and perceptive comment’;

Processnoun

a mental process that you are not directly aware of;

‘the process of denial’;

Wiseadjective

marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters;

‘judicious use of one's money’; ‘a sensible manager’; ‘a wise decision’;

Processnoun

a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant;

‘a bony process’;

Wiseadjective

evidencing the possession of inside information

Processverb

deal with in a routine way;

‘I'll handle that one’; ‘process a loan’; ‘process the applicants’;

Wiseadjective

able to take a broad view of negotiations between states

Processverb

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’;

Wiseadjective

carefully considered;

‘a considered opinion’;

Processverb

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’;

Processverb

institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against;

‘He was warned that the district attorney would process him’; ‘She actioned the company for discrimination’;

Processverb

shape, form, or improve a material;

‘work stone into tools’; ‘process iron’; ‘work the metal’;

Processverb

deliver a warrant or summons to someone;

‘He was processed by the sheriff’;

Processverb

march in a procession;

‘They processed into the dining room’;