Processing and Language

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 systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols.
  • usage: "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout the text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written"
  • synonyms: linguistic communication
• Language) communication by word of mouth. (
  • usage: "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"
  • synonyms: speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication, oral communication
• The text of a popular song or musical-comedy number.
  • usage: "his compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language"
  • synonyms: lyric, words
• The cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication.
  • usage: "he didn't have the language to express his feelings"
  • synonyms: linguistic process
• The mental faculty or power of vocal communication.
  • usage: "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals"
  • synonyms: speech
• A system of words used to name things in a particular discipline.
  • usage: "legal terminology"; "biological nomenclature"; "the language of sociology"
  • synonyms: terminology, nomenclature

• (v.t.) To communicate by language; to express in language.
• (n.) Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth.
• (n.) The expression of ideas by writing or any other instrumentality.
• (n.) The forms of speech or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation.
• (n.) The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style.
• (n.) The suggestion, by objects, actions or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers.
• (n.) A race, as distinguished by its speech.
• (n.) The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology.
• (n.) The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants.