Processing and Operation

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 state of being in effect or being operative.
  • usage: "that rule is no longer in operation"
• A business especially one run on a large scale.
  • usage: "a large-scale farming operation"; "a multinational operation"; "they paid taxes on every stage of the operation"; "they had to consolidate their operations"
• A planned activity involving many people performing various actions.
  • usage: "they organized a rescue operation"; "the biggest police operation in French history"; "running a restaurant is quite an operation"; "consolidate the companies various operations"
• Computer science. ( data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction))
  • usage: "it can perform millions of operations per second"
• Activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign. )
  • usage: "it was a joint operation of the navy and air force"
  • synonyms: military operation
• A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body.
  • usage: "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"
  • synonyms: surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
• A process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work.
  • usage: "the operations in building a house"; "certain machine tool operations"
  • synonyms: procedure
• Process or manner of functioning or operating.
  • usage: "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
  • synonyms: functioning, performance
• Psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents. (
  • usage: "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"
  • synonyms: process, cognitive process, mental process, cognitive operation
• Mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods. (
  • usage: "the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation"; "they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic"
  • synonyms: mathematical process, mathematical operation
• The activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.. )
  • usage: "her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride"

• (n.) That which is operated or accomplished; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan; as, military or naval operations.
• (n.) Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols.
• (n.) The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical or moral.
• (n.) Effect produced; influence.
• (n.) Any methodical action of the hand or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc.
• (n.) The method of working; mode of action.

(DoD) A military action or the carrying out of a strategic, operational, tactical, service, training, or administrative military mission.
(DoD) The process of carrying on combat, including movement, supply, attack, defense, and maneuvers needed to gain the objectives of any battle or campaign.