Processing and Current

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

• A flow of electricity through a conductor.
  • usage: "the current was measured in amperes"
  • synonyms: electric current
• A steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes. )
  • usage: "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; "the hose ejected a stream of water"
  • synonyms: stream
• Dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas.
  • usage: "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"
  • synonyms: stream, flow

adjective

• Occurring in or belonging to the present time.
  • usage: "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position"

• (a.) Running or moving rapidly.
• (a.) Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
• (a.) Passing from person to person or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history.
• (a.) A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; especially, the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity.
• (a.) Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
• (a.) Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
• (a.) General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.

(DoD) A body of water moving in a certain direction and caused by wind and density differences in water. The effects of a current are modified by water depth, underwater topography, basin shape, land masses, and deflection from the earth's rotation.