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Processing and Fitting

processing

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"
  • 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"
  • March in a procession.
    • usage: "They processed into the dining room"
  • Shape, form, or improve a material.
    • usage: "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal"
  • Deliver a warrant or summons to someone.
    • usage: "He was processed by the sheriff"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University

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.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
fitting

noun

  • Making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances.
  • A small and often standardized accessory to a larger system.
  • Usually plural. ( furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel))
  • Putting clothes on to see whether they fit.

verb

  • Be agreeable or acceptable to.
    • usage: "This suits my needs"
  • Be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired.
    • usage: "This piece won't fit into the puzzle"
  • Satisfy a condition or restriction.
    • usage: "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree"
  • Make fit.
    • usage: "fit a dress"; "He fitted other pieces of paper to his cut-out"
  • Insert or adjust several objects or people.
    • usage: "Can you fit the toy into the box"; "This man can't fit himself into our work environment"
  • Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics.
    • usage: "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"
  • Conform to some shape or size.
    • usage: "How does this shirt fit"
  • Provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose.
    • usage: "The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities"
  • Make correspond or harmonize.
    • usage: "Match my sweater"

adjective

  • In harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion.
    • usage: "We have come to dedicate a portion of that field... It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this"
  • Being precisely fitting and right.
    • usage: "it is only meet that she should be seated first"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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