Cope vs Process - What's the difference?
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To deal effectively with something difficult.
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To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
(falconry) To clip the beak or talons of a bird.
A long, loose cloak worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions.
* Bishop Burnet
*1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. XI:
*:He possessed a gorgeous cope of crimson silk and gold-thread damask, figured with a repeating pattern of golden pomegranates set in six-petalled formal blossoms, beyond which on either side was the pine-apple device wrought in seed-pearls.
Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.
The "vault" or "canopy" of the skies, heavens etc.
* Milton
*, II.12:
(construction) A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone and sloped to carry off water.
(foundry) The top part of a sand casting mold.
An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.
To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
* Holland
(obsolete) To bargain for; to buy.
(obsolete) To exchange or barter.
(obsolete) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.
* Shakespeare
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* Philips
(obsolete) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
* Shakespeare
A series of events to produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.
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, title= (legal) The act of serving a defendant with a summons or a writ.
(biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
(anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
(computing) A task or program that is or was executing.
(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 '''process'''es'' - 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.
A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
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(lb) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
To perform a particular process.
To treat with a substance
To think an information over, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it as valid.
(mostly British) To walk in a procession.
As verbs the difference between cope and process
is that cope is while process is to perform a particular process or process can be (mostly british) to walk in a procession.As a noun process is
a series of events to produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.cope
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(cop)- I thought I would never be able to cope with life after the amputation, but I have learned how to be happy again.
citation, page= , passage=Chelsea were coping comfortably as Liverpool left Luis Suarez too isolated. Steven Gerrard was also being forced to drop too deep to offer support to the beleaguered Jay Spearing and Jordan Henderson rather than add attacking potency alongside the Uruguayan.}}
Synonyms
* (to deal effectively with) handle, manage, withstandEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- a hundred and sixty priests all in their copes
- the starry cope of heaven
- Who perceiveth and seeth himselfe placed here,farthest from heavens coape , with those creatures, that are the worst of the three conditions; and yet dareth imaginarily place himselfe above the circle of the Moone, and reduce heaven under his feet.
- (Knight)
- (De Colange)
Verb
(cop)- Some bending down and coping to ward the earth.
Etymology 3
Verb
(cop)- (Spenser)
- Three thousand ducats due unto the Jew, / We freely cope your courteous pains withal.
- I love to cope him in these sullen fits.
- They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down.
- Host coped with host, dire was the battle.
- Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man / As e'er my conversation coped withal.
Anagrams
* * ----process
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(es)Bayern Munich 2-0 Man City, passage=But they came up against an impressive force in Bayern, who extended their run to 10 wins on the trot, having scored 28 goals in the process and conceding none.}}
T time, passage=Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.}}
- This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
citation, passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
Derived terms
* due process * due process of law * due-process * process color, process colour * process hot water * process server * process upsetVerb
(es)- We have processed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions.