Processing and Composition

noun

• Preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure.
  • usage: "the processing of newly arrived immigrants"; "the processing of ore to obtain minerals"

verb

• 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: process, treat
• Deal with in a routine way.
  • usage: "I'll handle that one"; "process a loan"; "process the applicants"
  • synonyms: process
• 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"
  • synonyms: process
• 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, process
• March in a procession.
  • usage: "They processed into the dining room"
  • synonyms: march, process
• Shape, form, or improve a material.
  • usage: "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal"
  • synonyms: work, work on, process
• Deliver a warrant or summons to someone.
  • usage: "He was processed by the sheriff"
  • synonyms: serve, process, swear out

Processing are the steps a lender takes with your loan application to gather your information for underwriting. Processing involves building your file of information for your loan. Processing includes getting the credit report, appraisal, verification of employment, assets, etc.

(DoD) In photography, the operations necessary to produce negatives, diapositives, or prints from exposed films, plates, or paper.
(DoD) A system of operations designed to convert raw data into useful information.

noun

• The spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole.
  • usage: "harmonious composition is essential in a serious work of art"
  • synonyms: composing
• The way in which someone or something is composed.
  • synonyms: constitution, physical composition, makeup, make-up
• A mixture of ingredients.
• A musical work that has been created.
  • usage: "the composition is written in four movements"
  • synonyms: musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music
• Musical creation.
  • synonyms: composing
• The act of creating written works.
  • usage: "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"
  • synonyms: writing, authorship, penning
• Art and technique of printing with movable type.
  • synonyms: typography
• An essay (especially one written as an assignment. )
  • usage: "he got an A on his composition"
  • synonyms: paper, report, theme
• Something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole.
  • usage: "he envied the composition of their faculty"

• (n.) The act of writing for practice in a language, as English, Latin, German, etc.
• (n.) The art or practice of so combining the different parts of a work of art as to produce a harmonious whole; also, a work of art considered as such. See 4, below.
• (n.) The invention or combination of the parts of any literary work or discourse or of a work of art; as, the composition of a poem or a piece of music.
• (n.) A mass or body formed by combining two or more substances; as, a chemical composition.
• (n.) The act or art of composing or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts or ingredients.
• (n.) Consistency; accord; congruity.
• (n.) The adjustment of a debt or avoidance of an obligation, by some form of compensation agreed on between the parties; also, the sum or amount of compensation agreed upon in the adjustment.
• (n.) A literary, musical or artistic production, especially one showing study and care in arrangement; -- often used of an elementary essay or translation done as an educational exercise.
• (n.) Mutual agreement to terms or conditions for the settlement of a difference or controversy; also, the terms or conditions of settlement; agreement.
• (n.) Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
• (n.) The state of being put together or composed; conjunction; combination; adjustment.
• (n.) The setting up of type and arranging it for printing.

Voluntary arrangement to restructure a firm's debt, under which payment is reduced.