Processing and Stage

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

• Any distinct time period in a sequence of events.
  • usage: "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected"
  • synonyms: phase
• A specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process.
  • usage: "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences"
  • synonyms: degree, level, point
• A large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience.
  • usage: "he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box"
• The theater as a profession (usually `the stage'. )
  • usage: "an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage"
• A large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns.
  • usage: "we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles"
  • synonyms: stagecoach
• A section or portion of a journey or course.
  • usage: "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"
  • synonyms: leg
• Any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something.
  • usage: "All the world's a stage-Shakespeare; "it set the stage for peaceful negotiations"
• A small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination.
  • synonyms: microscope stage

verb

• Perform (a play), especially on a stage.
  • usage: "we are going to stage `Othello'"
  • synonyms: present, represent
• Plan, organize, and carry out (an event. )
  • usage: "the neighboring tribe staged an invasion"
  • synonyms: arrange

(DoD, NATO) To process, in a specified area, troops which are in transit from one locality to another. See also marshalling; staging area.
(DoD, NATO) An element of the missile or propulsion system that generally separates from the missile at burnout or cut-off. Stages are numbered chronologically in order of burning.