Process and Difference

process

(n.) 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.
(n.) A statement of events; a narrative.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.
(n.) The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

A particular course of action intended to achieve a result.
- usage: "the procedure of obtaining a driver's license"; "it was a process of trial and error"
- synonyms: procedure
Psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents. (
- usage: "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"
- synonyms: cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation
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.
- synonyms: summons
A mental process that you are not directly aware of.
- usage: "the process of denial"
- synonyms: unconscious process
A natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant.
- usage: "a bony process"
- synonyms: outgrowth, appendage
A sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states.
- usage: "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"
- synonyms: physical process

Subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition.
- usage: "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals"; "treat an oil spill"
- synonyms: treat
Deal with in a routine way.
- usage: "I'll handle that one"; "process a loan"; "process the applicants"
Perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information.
- usage: "The results of the elections were still being processed when he gave his acceptance speech"
Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against.
- usage: "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination"
- synonyms: action, sue, litigate
March in a procession.
- usage: "They processed into the dining room"
- synonyms: march
Shape, form, or improve a material.
- usage: "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal"
- synonyms: work, work on
Deliver a warrant or summons to someone.
- usage: "He was processed by the sheriff"
- synonyms: serve, swear out

difference

The quality of being unlike or dissimilar.
- usage: "there are many differences between jazz and rock"
A variation that deviates from the standard or norm.
- usage: "the deviation from the mean"
- synonyms: deviation, divergence, departure
A disagreement or argument about something important.
- usage: "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats"
- synonyms: dispute, difference of opinion, conflict
A significant change.
- usage: "the difference in her is amazing"; "his support made a real difference"
The number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend.
- synonyms: remainder

(n.) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish the bearings of two persons, which would otherwise be the same. See Augmentation, and Marks of cadency, under Cadency.
(n.) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
(n.) The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty?.
(n.) That by which one thing differs from another; that which distinguishes or causes to differ; mark of distinction; characteristic quality; specific attribute.
(v.t.) To cause to differ; to make different; to mark as different; to distinguish.
(n.) Disagreement in opinion; dissension; controversy; quarrel; hence, cause of dissension; matter in controversy.
(n.) Choice; preference.
(n.) The quantity by which one quantity differs from another or the remainder left after subtracting the one from the other.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary