Processing and Counting

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 act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order.
  • usage: "the counting continued for several hours"
  • synonyms: count, numeration, enumeration, reckoning, tally

verb

• Determine the number or amount of.
  • usage: "Can you count the books on your shelf"; "Count your change"
  • synonyms: count, number, enumerate, numerate
• Have weight; have import, carry weight.
  • usage: "It does not matter much"
  • synonyms: count, matter, weigh
• Show consideration for; take into account.
  • usage: "You must consider her age"; "The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient"
  • synonyms: consider, count, weigh
• Name or recite the numbers in ascending order.
  • usage: "The toddler could count to 100"
  • synonyms: count
• Put into a group.
  • usage: "The academy counts several Nobel Prize winners among its members"
  • synonyms: count, number
• Include as if by counting.
  • usage: "I can count my colleagues in the opposition"
  • synonyms: count
• Have a certain value or carry a certain weight.
  • usage: "each answer counts as three points"
  • synonyms: count
• Have faith or confidence in.
  • usage: "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis"
  • synonyms: count, bet, depend, look, calculate, reckon
• Take account of.
  • usage: "You have to reckon with our opponents"; "Count on the monsoon"
  • synonyms: reckon, count

(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Count.