Process vs Generate - What's the difference?
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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.
To bring into being; give rise to.
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, title= To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
To procreate, beget.
(mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
To appear or occur; be generated.
* 1883 , (Thomas Hardy), (The Three Strangers)
In transitive terms the difference between process and generate
is that process is to think an information over, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it as valid while generate is to procreate, beget.As a noun process
is a series of events to produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.process
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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.
Etymology 2
Verb
(es)Anagrams
* ----generate
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Verb
(generat)Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao, passage=In the last 20 minutes Athletic began to generate the sort of pressure of which they are capable, but by then it was far too late: the game had begun to slip away from them as early as the seventh minute.}}
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
- Mrs. Fennel, seeing the steam begin to generate on the countenances of her guests, crossed over and touched the fiddler's elbow and put her hand on the serpent's mouth.