Synonyms of the word

process

• n. A series of events which produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.
• n. (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical…
• n. A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
• n. (anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
• n. (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate,…
• n. (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
• n. (anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
• n. (computing) A task or program that is or was executing.
• v. (transitive) To perform a particular process.
• v. (transitive) To think an information over, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept…
• v. To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer…
• v. (chiefly Britain) To walk in a procession.

action

• n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
• n. A way of motion or functioning.
• n. A fast-paced activity.
• n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
• n. (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano,…
• n. (slang) sexual intercourse.
• n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
• n. (military) Combat.
• n. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
• n. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual…
• n. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem,…
• n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive…
• n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
• n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public…
• interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
• v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
• v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.

activity

• n. The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active…
• n. Something done as an action or a movement.
• n. Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
• n. Use (of internet, Playstation, bank account etc.).

affect

• v. (transitive) To influence or alter.
• v. (transitive) To move to emotion.
• v. (transitive) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To dispose or incline.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To assign; to appoint.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To aim for, to try to obtain.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
• v. (transitive) To make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display…
• n. (obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.
• n. (obsolete) A desire, an appetite.
• n. (psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion,…

appendage

• n. an external body part that projects from the body.
• n. a natural prolongation or projection from a part of any organism.
• n. a part that is joined to something larger.

calculate

• v. (transitive, mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical…
• v. (intransitive, mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
• v. (intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.
• v. To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other…
• v. To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of…

care

• n. (obsolete) Grief, sorrow.
• n. Close attention; concern; responsibility.
• n. Worry.
• n. Maintenance, upkeep.
• n. The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
• n. The state of being cared for by others.
• n. The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
• v. (intransitive) To be concerned about, have an interest in.
• v. (intransitive) To look after.
• v. (intransitive) To be mindful of.
• v. (intransitive) Polite or formal way to say want.

challenge

• n. A confrontation; a dare.
• n. A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that…
• n. (law) A procedure or action.
• n. (hunting) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
• v. To invite someone to take part in a competition.
• v. To dare someone.
• v. To dispute something.
• v. (law) To make a formal objection to a juror.
• v. (obsolete) To claim as due; to demand as a right.
• v. (obsolete) To censure; to blame.
• v. (military) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
• v. (US) To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as…
• v. (Canada, US) To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.

cipher

• n. A numeric character.
• n. Any text character.
• n. A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram.
• n. A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.
• n. (cryptography) A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into…
• n. Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.
• n. A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods.
• n. A design of interlacing initials: a decorative design consisting of a set of interlaced initials.
• n. (music) A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been…
• n. A hip-hop jam session.
• n. The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
• n. Someone or something of no importance.
• n. (dated) Zero.
• v. (regional, dated) To calculate.

cognition

• n. The process of knowing.
• n. (countable) A result of a cognitive process.

compute

• v. To reckon or calculate.
• v. (informal) To make sense.
• n. (computing, informal) computational power.

cypher

• n. Alternative spelling of cipher.
• v. Alternative spelling of cipher.

deal

• n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
• n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
• v. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
• v. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
• v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
• v. (baseball) To pitch.
• v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
• v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
• v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
• v. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
• v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
• v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
• n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
• n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
• n. A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction.
• n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
• n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
• n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
• n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
• n. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
• n. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
• n. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity…
• adj. Made of deal.

deliver

• v. To set free.
• v. (process) To do with birth.
• v. To free from or disburden of anything.
• v. To bring or transport something to its destination.
• v. To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
• v. To express in words, declare, or utter.
• v. To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
• v. To discover; to show.
• v. (obsolete) To admit; to allow to pass.
• v. (medicine) To administer a drug.

figure

• n. A drawing or diagram conveying information.
• n. The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially,…
• n. A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
• n. The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
• n. (obsolete) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.
• n. A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
• n. A numeral.
• n. A number.
• n. A shape.
• n. A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
• n. A dance figure, a complex dance move^W.
• n. A figure of speech.
• n. (logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
• n. (astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
• n. (music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single…
• n. (music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
• v. To solve a mathematical problem.
• v. To come to understand.
• v. (intransitive) To be reasonable.
• v. (transitive) To enter, be a part of.
• v. (obsolete) To represent by a figure, as to form or mould; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal;…
• v. To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
• v. (obsolete) To indicate by numerals.
• v. To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
• v. (obsolete) To prefigure; to foreshow.
• v. (music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying…
• v. (music) To embellish.

handle

• n. The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
• n. An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool.
• n. (gambling) The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more…
• n. (textiles) The tactile qualities of a fabric, e.g., softness, firmness, elasticity, fineness, resilience,…
• n. (slang) A name, nickname or pseudonym.
• n. (computing) A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) A 10 fl oz (285 ml) glass of beer in the Northern Territory. (See also pot and…
• n. (US) A half-gallon (1.75-liter) bottle of alcohol. (Called a sixty in Canada.).
• n. (geography, Newfoundland and Labrador, rare) A point, an extremity of land.
• n. (topology) A topological space homeomorphic to a ball but viewed as a product of two lower-dimensional…
• n. (algebraic geometry) The smooth, irreducible subcurve of a comb which connects to each of the other components…
• v. (transitive) To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).
• v. (transitive, rare) To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.
• v. (transitive) To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
• v. (transitive) To manage, control, or direct.
• v. (transitive) To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.
• v. (transitive) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.
• v. (transitive, rare) To be concerned with; to be an expert in.
• v. (transitive) To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).
• v. (intransitive) To use the hands.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).

impact

• n. The striking of one body against another; collision.
• n. The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
• n. (chiefly medicine) A forced impinging.
• n. A significant or strong influence; an effect.
• v. (transitive) To compress; to compact; to press or pack together.
• v. (transitive, proscribed) To influence; to affect; to have an impact on.
• v. (transitive) To collide or strike.

knowledge

• n. The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation…
• n. Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.
• n. Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.
• n. Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.
• n. (philosophical) Justified true belief.
• n. (archaic or law) Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge).
• n. (obsolete) Information or intelligence about something; notice.
• n. The total of what is known; all information and products of learning.
• n. (countable) Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science.
• n. (obsolete) Acknowledgement.
• n. (obsolete) Notice, awareness.
• n. (Britain, informal) The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab…
• v. (obsolete) To confess as true; to acknowledge.

litigate

• v. (intransitive, construed with on) to go to law.

manage

• v. (transitive) To direct or be in charge of.
• v. (transitive) To handle or control (a situation, job).
• v. (transitive) To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
• v. (intransitive) To succeed at an attempt.
• v. (intransitive) To achieve without fuss, or without outside help.
• v. To train (a horse) in the manege; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
• v. (obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.
• v. (obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.
• n. (now rare) The act of managing or controlling something.
• n. (horseriding) Manège.

march

• n. A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
• n. A political rally or parade.
• n. Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music).
• n. Steady forward movement or progression.
• n. (euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
• v. (intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
• v. (transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.
• v. To go to war; to make military advances.
• n. (now archaic, historical) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
• n. (historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
• n. The name for any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.
• v. (intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers.
• n. (obsolete) Smallage.

noesis

• n. (in psychology) cognition, the functioning of intellect.
• n. (in Greek philosophy) the exercise of reason.
• n. (in metaphysical philosophy) the consciousness component of Neotic Theory, which concerns the duality…

operation

• n. The method by which a device performs its function.
• n. The method or practice by which actions are done.
• n. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
• n. A planned undertaking.
• n. A business or organization.
• n. (medicine) A surgical procedure.
• n. (computing, logic, mathematics) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the…
• n. (military) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).
• n. (obsolete) Effect produced; influence.

outgrowth

• n. Anything that grows out of something else.

procedure

• n. A particular method for performing a task.
• n. A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
• n. (uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain…
• n. The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
• n. (obsolete) That which results; issue; product.
• n. (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task.
• n. (medicine) A surgical operation.

reckon

• v. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
• v. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account;…
• v. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
• v. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by…
• v. (intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
• v. To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and…

serve

• n. (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
• n. (chiefly Australia) A portion of food or drink, a serving.
• v. (heading, personal) To provide a service.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To treat (someone) in a given manner.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To be suitor to; to be the lover of.
• v. (heading) To be effective.
• v. (heading, transitive, law) To deliver a document.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball,…
• v. (transitive) To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
• v. (intransitive) To be in military service.
• v. (transitive, military) To work, to operate (a weapon).
• v. (transitive) To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
• v. (nautical) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing…

sue

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To follow.
• v. (transitive) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
• v. (transitive) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
• v. (falconry, of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.).
• v. (nautical) To leave high and dry on shore.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To court.

summons

• n. A call to do something, especially to come.
• n. (law) A notice summoning someone to appear in court, as a defendant, juror or witness.
• n. (military) A demand for surrender.
• v. (transitive) To serve someone with a summons.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of summon.

touch

• v. Primarily physical senses.
• v. Primarily non-physical senses.
• v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
• v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
• v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
• v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
• v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
• v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
• n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
• n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
• n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
• n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
• n. A little bit; a small amount.
• n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
• n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
• n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
• n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
• n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
• n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
• n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
• n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
• n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
• n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
• n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
• n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
• n. The children's game of tag.
• n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
• n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
• n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.

transform

• v. (transitive) To change greatly the appearance or form of.
• v. (transitive) To change the nature, condition or function of; to change in nature, disposition, heart,…
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To subject to a transformation; to change into another form without altering…
• v. (transitive, electricity) To subject to the action of a transformer.
• v. (transitive, genetics) To subject (a cell) to transformation.
• v. (intransitive) To undergo a transformation.
• n. (mathematics) the result of a transformation.

transmute

• v. (transitive) To change, transform or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another.
• v. (intransitive) To change, transform or convert to another, or from one state or form to another.

transubstantiate

• v. (transitive) To change one substance into another; to transmute.
• v. (transitive) To change the bread and wine of the Eucharist into the body and blood of Jesus.

treat

• v. (intransitive) To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with).
• v. (intransitive) To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion.
• v. (transitive) To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To entreat or beseech (someone).
• v. (transitive) To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way.
• v. (transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to;…
• v. (transitive) To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to.
• v. (transitive) To subject to a chemical or other action; to act upon with a specific scientific result in…
• v. To provide something special and pleasant.
• n. An entertainment, outing, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others.
• n. An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure.
• n. (obsolete) A parley or discussion of terms; a negotiation.
• n. (obsolete) An entreaty.

walk

• v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side…
• v. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
• v. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
• v. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
• v. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
• v. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
• v. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
• v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
• v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet,…
• v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
• v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
• v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available…
• n. A trip made by walking.
• n. A distance walked.
• n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before…
• n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
• n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
• n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling…
• n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known…
• n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
• n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
• n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
• n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding…
• n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

writ

• n. (law) A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.
• n. Authority, power to enforce compliance.
• n. (archaic) That which is written; writing.
• v. (archaic, nonstandard) past tense of write.
• v. (archaic, nonstandard) past participle of write.