different between process vs bump

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French procés (“journey”), from Latin pr?cessus, from pr?c?d?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p???s?s/
• (General American) enPR: pr??s?s, IPA^(key): /?p??s?s/
• (Canada, rarely US) enPR: pr??s?s, IPA^(key): /?p?o?s?s/
• Hyphenation: pro?cess

Noun

process (plural processes)

1. A series of events which produce a result (the product).
2. (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.
   • 1960, Mack Tyner, Process Engineering Calculations: Material and Energy Balances – Ordinarily a process plant will use a steam boiler to supply its process heat requirements and to drive a steam-turbine generator.
   • 1987, J. R. Richards, Principles of control system design in Modelling and control of fermentation processes – The words plant or process infer generally any dynamic system, be it primarily mechanical, electrical, or chemical process in nature, and may extend also to include social or economic systems.
3. A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
4. (anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
5. (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
   • 1711, John Spotiswood, The Form of Process, 39:

     But if either at Calling by the Clerk, after the Session Bell, or before the Ordinary by the Roll, an Advocat compears, and craves to be Marked for the Defender, and to see the Process; The Clerk in the first Case, and the Judge in the second, will allow him to see it

6. (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
7. (anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
8. (computing) An executable task or program.
9. The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• due-process
• interprocess

Related terms

Related terms

• proceed
• procedure

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (purosesu)

Translations

Verb

process (third-person singular simple present processes, present participle processing, simple past and past participle processed)

1. (transitive) To perform a particular process on a thing.
2. (transitive) To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.

4. (transitive, photography, film) To develop photographic film.
5. (transitive, law) To take legal proceedings against.
   • 1845, Report from Her Majesty's Commissioners of inquiry into the state of the law and practice in respect to the occupation of land in Ireland

     When I saw that he would not let me alone, I processed him for £12. My mother was with his brother John, and he allowed her six guineas for clothes; and if she did not want the money, he would allow it to me in the rent, and I made him pay that when he would not leave me alone.

Derived terms

• processed
• processor

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from procession.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) enPR: pr?-s?s?, IPA^(key): /p???s?s/
• Rhymes: -?s
• Hyphenation: pro?cess

Verb

process (third-person singular simple present processes, present participle processing, simple past and past participle processed)

1. To walk in a procession

Translations

Anagrams

• Cospers, Crespos, corpses, scopers

Latvian

Etymology

From Latin pr?cessus (“progression, progress, process”), perfect passive participle of pr?c?d? (“I advance, proceed”), from pr?- +? c?d? (“I go, move, proceed”).

Noun

process m (1st declension)

1. process

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin processus (“progression, progress, process”), perfect passive participle of pr?c?d? (“I advance, proceed”), from pr?- +? c?d? (“I go, move, proceed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr??s?s/

Noun

process c

1. process

Declension

Derived terms

• processa

Related terms

• processuell

References

• process in Svensk ordbok (SO)

English

Etymology

From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision", also "to make a heavy, hollow sound, boom”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”). Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”), probably of imitative origin. More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

bump (countable and uncountable, plural bumps)

1. A light blow or jolting collision.
2. The sound of such a collision.
3. A protuberance on a level surface.
4. A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
5. (obsolete) One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind. Also (dated, metonymically) the faculty itself
   • c.1845 Thomas MacNevin, cited in Charles Gavan Duffy (1896) Young Ireland: A Fragment of Irish History, 1840-45; final revision (London: T.F. Unwin) Vol.II p.100:

     Our task is to elevate the character of the people, raising up, in fact, their bump of self-esteem and suppressing the bumps of servility and fury.

6. (rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
7. The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
8. (Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
9. A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.

10. (slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
11. The noise made by the bittern; a boom.
12. (preceded by definite article) A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump each other's hips together.
13. In skipping, a single jump over two consecutive turns of the rope.
14. (uncountable) A coarse cotton fabric.
15. A training match for a fighting dog.
16. (snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
17. (US, slang, uncountable) Music, especially played over speakers at loud volume with strong bass frequency response.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

bump (third-person singular simple present bumps, present participle bumping, simple past and past participle bumped)

1. To knock against or run into with a jolt.
2. To move up or down by a step; displace.

3. (Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
4. (chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
5. (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
   • 2005, Lois Jones, EasyJet: the story of Britain's biggest low-cost airline (page 192)

     Easyjet said the compensation package for passengers bumped off flights was 'probably the most flawed piece of European legislation in recent years' […]

6. (transitive) To move the time of (a scheduled event).
   • 2010, Nancy Conner, Matthew MacDonald, Office 2010: The Missing Manual, p. 332:

     A colleague emails with news that her 4:30 meeting got bumped to 3:30.

7. (transitive) To pick (a lock) with a repeated striking motion that dislodges the pins.
8. (intransitive, archaic) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.

   • as a bittern bumps within a reed

9. (printing, dated) To spread out material so as to fill any desired number of pages.
10. (slang, transitive) To assassinate; to bump off.
    • 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)

      You know about the night the kid bumped Brody?

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

bump

1. (Internet) Posted in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.

Danish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, compare English bump.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bom?p/, [?b??m?b?]
• Homophone: bomb

Noun

bump n (singular definite bumpet, plural indefinite bump)

1. thud
2. jolt
3. road hump

Inflection

Derived terms

• vejbump
• bumpe

Verb

bump (form)

1. imperative of bumpe

Welsh

Numeral

bump

1. Soft mutation of pump (“five”).

Mutation