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See Spanish definition of proceso
noun
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1.1(series of actions, changes)
proceso masculinethe electoral/decision-making process — el proceso electoral/de toma de decisiones- the aging process — el envejecimiento
- the peace process — el proceso de paz
- the process of obtaining a permit — el trámite para obtener un permiso
- he made money, but lost a lot of friends in the process — hizo dinero pero con ello perdió muchos amigos
- in process — en construcción
- He breaks every step of the process into a series of questions.
- Gap analysis of all the business processes is the first step in any e-business project.
- This was an important step in processes seeking to further deepen our democracy.
- A second step in the overall process is to collect data relevant to the problem.
- The current process is not achieving significant progress, but minor concessions calculated to win more time.
- Helping them restore physiological functions is the first step in the treatment process.
- Individuals, like groups and organization, resist changing established processes until those processes fail to achieve desired results.
- Many people have lost their hope regarding this issue because no fruitful results of such processes have been achieved so far.
- This would be achieved by a transparent process whereby the bills in issue would be made clear to the voters at election time.
- The first step in the strengthening process happens when the other candidates drop out.
- As is so often the case, each individual step in a decision-making process seems to be completely logical and obvious.
- Moore wanted what he got, a very public fight that he very publicly lost at every step of the process.
- So, this move has to be seen as a first step towards facilitating the process of computerisation.
- On the whole, there was a greater emphasis on starting a process than on achieving final goals.
- The first commitment must be to the dialogue process and to achieve the possible.
- Bobbitt takes the process one step further, using his analysis of the past to predict the future.
- Make sure you fully understand every step of the building process and don't let jargon put you off.
- To think about the outcome will be to neglect the process needed to achieve the end result.
- To provide a clearly arranged model, we kept the number of processes / steps low.
- Metabolism is a series of chemical processes through which the body uses the nutrients in food to produce the energy it needs.
- Byatt's heroines are victims of a culture whose value-systems are prejudiced against nature and natural processes of ageing.
- Paul knew that Uncle Edward was a biochemist, and a specialist in natural processes, such as photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
- Food also provides the building blocks for the body's natural repair and maintenance processes.
- The physical consequences to the woman of pregnancy and childbirth are, of course, natural processes.
- So, by creation, we mean an origin event contrary to natural processes that has been orchestrated or imposed by a greater power.
- Defoliation is, of course, a natural process and happens at the end of each growing season in the autumn.
- IT is well understood that genetic change provides the basis for adaptation processes in natural and domesticated populations.
- A cascade is a complicated series of processes that ultimately achieves a final, cumulative effect.
- Many studies present mathematical models that describe evolutionary processes involving bacteria.
- Understanding the developmental processes underlying specific compositional shifts is more difficult to do.
- Whether it's first- or second-hand, cigarette smoke complicates the body's wound healing process at the cellular level.
- Evolution is the process of change over time, over thousands and millions of years.
- Understanding the body's internal disease process took longer.
- A burning cigarette is a complex system in which many types of chemical reactions and physical processes occur in parallel.
- The compounds evaporate into the air through a series of chemical processes that result in especially reflective clouds.
- These processes convert chemical energy (stored within the cells in the form of biomass) into electrical energy.
- Darwin himself was prepared to admit that life could gradually emerge by comprehensible chemical processes from non-living precursors
- The mission will measure and help understand the chemical processes affecting the distribution of ozone in Earth's upper atmosphere.
- the aging process — el envejecimiento
1.2(method)
proceso masculineprocedimiento masculinethe compounds obtained using this process — los compuestos que se obtienen mediante este procedimiento / proceso- the material has to undergo various processes — hay que someter el material a varios procesos
- the material has to undergo various processes — hay que someter el material a varios procesos
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2.1 formal (proceedings)
acción judicial feminine2.2(writ)
demanda feminine- The plaintiff must issue his process and must serve it on the defendant.
- In some jurisdictions, the writ has to be served or the process has to be served before the action is brought.
- He successfully dodged Earthlink's process servers for several months until they caught up with him in February 2003.
- I am not persuaded the provinces do have the constitutional or legislative authority to serve a process commenced by summons beyond the borders of Canada.
- That process was served on Dow Jones in the United States under the two limbs of the Supreme Court Rules.
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Anatomy Botany Zoologyprotuberancia feminine- Triangular processes occurred in both bones of pairs 58 times from a total of 334 paired scapulae.
- These anomalies are often extra appendages or processes, and are probably most often produced by injury when the exoskeleton is soft.
- These processes of the maxilla sometimes project backward in the median plane, separating the horizontal plates from each other.
- The spinous processes of cervical vertebrae 2, 3, 4, and 5 usually possess cleft spines.
- The newly formed neuron is still immature; later it extends an axon and dendrite processes, and assumes the morphology of a mature neuron.
transitive verb
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(treat)(raw materials/waste) procesar(raw materials/waste) tratar(film) revelar- That would mean the nightmare of bad smells suffered by residents during the operation of the wool processing plant could be repeated.
- He had worked for a chemicals processing company, and was also involved in sports.
- These included chemicals, various processed articles, machines and equipment.
- Dozens of nations possess such a capability, which is inherent in modern chemical and food processing industries.
- The group's export controls also apply to some items of chemical processing equipment.
- It is processed by a series of soakings, which remove the bitter taste, after which it can be boiled to make an edible jelly or dried and ground to a flour for bread-making.
- Whiskey, essences, and many products from the oil refinery industry are processed via distillation.
- With a fluid milk capacity of 32 million pounds, it processes milk, cottage cheese, sour cream, juice and drinks.
- The demand for soybean oil is excellent, with the product being sold as quickly as it is processed.
- Shredded cheese products are processed on three lines (one retail and two bulk).
- Renal biopsies were routinely processed for light, immunofluorescence, and electron microscopy.
- The fresh tissues were routinely processed for transmission electron microscopy.
- Sputum was induced, collected, and processed according to a standardized protocol.
- The tissue was processed according to a method previously used for this tissue.
- Beef and pork are nearly always sold natural and minimally processed.
- Industries such as dairy farming and meat processing generate waste materials that are dried or minimally processed into fertilizers.
- Choose oils that are unrefined and minimally processed.
- The lungs were pressure fixed and processed for paraffin embedding.
- For years, it's been assumed that bacteria enter empty feather follicles during poultry processing.
- A price list must be established for tests processed in the office laboratory.
- Blood donated to the armed services program will be processed at Lackland for worldwide distribution.
- Jai Ram Bhai is just one migration lawyer in Suva who says he's processed about 5,000 emigration applications since May last year.
- It was impossible for Council officials to process that amount of work in one month.
- The driver of the jeep was arrested and brought to Navan Station where he was processed under drink-driving legislation and breathalysed.
- After his arrest, he was processed by the police in just eight hours, whilst less famous prisoners can spend up to 36 hours before arraignment.
- I was not told why I was arrested until after I was processed: obstructing police.
- He worked eight hours a day in an office processing mountains of applications from people seeking a rebate on a war tax charged on their coal.
- Upon processing me, the jailer joked that I had just missed juvenile detention.
- Today Bradford MP Marsha Singh condemned the delay in processing her housing application.
- Applications for houses were processed by Mayo County Council, and the first tenants took up residence in September 2000.
- However, her legal situation deteriorated when she left Luxembourg before her application for asylum was processed.
- But they denied that the application form was processed internally, saying it was sent back to her after being checked.
- They processed me and ran me through every database they could use, but found nothing.
- Some large lenders will accept your application but delay processing it until near the end of your grace period.
- The authorities say they cannot process them all, so he must wait to receive them when he departs.
- Aladdin thought his case for asylum was being processed by Australian immigration officials but was soon informed of his predicament.
- Manny is in a total daze as he's processed through the judicial system, handcuffed, and sent to jail.
- Payments are processed quickly and securely and credit card information is not stored once the transaction is complete.
- They are also processing the grants as quickly as possible at a bureaucratic level.
- The Government could have spent some money on processing the forms more quickly instead of a fancy advertising campaign.
- Application forms are processed according as they are received, so early application is advisable.
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(deal with, handle)(applications) dar curso a(applications) ocuparse de(applications) procesar(order) tramitar(order) ocuparse de(candidates) atender3
Computing(information/data) procesar- Images may be processed or stored locally, or transmitted at a lesser rate.
- The generated data may be processed through the same software used to process the real data.
- Once the data have been processed through our programs to manipulate the data and to define trip ends, two steps remain.
- Spam levels reached a yearly high in July, accounting for 77 per cent of all emails processed by BlackSpider.
- Digital images of stained material can be easily processed in various image-editing programs.
- Once the data was acquired it needed to be processed for reporting purposes and then stored in the data warehouse for future access.
- Data is downloaded onto a server at MIT and processed using pattern recognition software.
- The data collected will be processed by Stella, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe.
- SMP is a technology that allows two threads to be simultaneously processed by the operating system.
- Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored.
- Payment is made by credit or debit card and is processed securely online in real time.
- You can also specify if the web page snapshots will be processed.
- Organisations upload their PDF documents, which are processed and returned with the relevant accessibility features added.
- The Data Protection Act requires company's maintain servers within the EU but allows that data to be processed anywhere.
- The net result is that, according to researchers' current calculations data can be processed eight times faster than it is using conventional technology.
- This allows a signal to be transmitted to and processed by the logic circuitry indicating that a particular key has been selected.
- But what if the buffer contains a gigabyte of plain text to be processed?
- A number of researchers have assumed a hierarchical model of language, in which linguistic information is processed in a series of discrete stages.
- Today's PCs process more information faster than anything imagined in the early days of computing.
- The data were processed using the software provided by the manufacturer.
intransitive verb
formal
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(go in procession)desfilarReligion ir en procesión- Upon entering the sanctuary, they processed down the aisle towards the altar, which was dimly lit with candles.
- The men trudged into the bar like polar explorers, and processed soggily towards the fire he'd just lit at the far end of the lounge.
- The priests process round the church, swinging clouds of incense.
- We processed through them, stopping at each station for the reading, prayer, and Catholic aerobics of kneeling and standing
- They stood at the back of the church ready to process down the aisle
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