process

/ˈprəʊ.ses/

意味: 過程、工程

例文: The pie-making process was top secret.
　　  パイ作りの工程は極秘だった。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: thought process(思考過程), decision-making process(意思決定過程), application process(申請手続き)

定義: 物事を行うための一連の手順や方法。何かを達成するために段階的に進むこと。

processは約5,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
Noun: (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
Noun: a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant’s attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant
Noun: a mental process that you are not directly aware of
Noun: a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant
Noun: a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
Verb: subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
Verb: deal with in a routine way
Verb: perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information
Verb: institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
Verb: march in a procession
Verb: shape, form, or improve a material
Verb: deliver a warrant or summons to someone

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The process takes about two hours to complete.(その工程は約2時間かかります。)
She explained the process clearly to everyone.(彼女は皆にその手順を明確に説明しました。)
We need to improve the hiring process soon.(採用プロセスを早急に改善する必要があります。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: the procedure of obtaining a driver’s license
Noun: it was a process of trial and error
Noun: the process of thinking
Noun: the cognitive operation of remembering
Noun: the process of denial
Noun: a bony process
Noun: events now in process
Noun: the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls
Verb: process cheese
Verb: process hair
Verb: treat the water so it can be drunk
Verb: treat the lawn with chemicals
Verb: treat an oil spill
Verb: I’ll handle that one
Verb: process a loan
Verb: process the applicants
Verb: The results of the elections were still being processed when he gave his acceptance speech
Verb: He was warned that the district attorney would process him
Verb: She actioned the company for discrimination
Verb: They processed into the dining room
Verb: work stone into tools
Verb: process iron
Verb: work the metal
Verb: He was processed by the sheriff

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): action, appendage, cognitive operation, cognitive process, litigate, march, mental process, operation, outgrowth, physical process, procedure, process, serve, sue, summons, swear out, treat, unconscious process, work, work on

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): activity, affect, body part, calculate, challenge, cognition, deliver, manage, physical entity, transform, walk, writ

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abdomen, ability, acting, action, add, administer, adnexa, aid, amble, ambulacrum, ambulate, ampulla, apparatus, appeal, area, assize, attachment, attempt, attitude, average, back, behavior, budget, burst, buttock, buttocks, buzz, calibration, call one’s bluff, call out, cannon, capitalize, causal agent, ceremony, certiorari, clump, cognitive factor, come to grips, concealment, conduct, consign, content, continuance, control, coordinate, counterchallenge, court order, creation, cup of tea, defy, demand, destalinize, differentiate, dilator, direct, dismantling, dispose of, diversion, divide, dock, domesticity, dorsum, drop, education, energid, energizing, enjoyment, episteme, equivalent, estimate, external body part, extract, factor, feature, fieri facias, flank, flounce, follow-up, foot, fornix, fun, game, gaskin, groove, grouping, habeas corpus, haunch, hike, hindquarters, hip, history, hit, horseback, hydrolize, impeach, impugn, inability, influence, information, integrate, interpolate, joint, juggle, lamentation, last, laughter, leadership, lexis, limp, litigate, liveliness, lobe, loin, loins, lollop, lumber, mandamus, march, market, matter, measurement, mentum, mince, mind, miscalculate, misdeliver, mismanage, multiply, music, mystification, negotiation, object, occupation, operation, organ, organization, organize, pace, partition, perambulate, perception, perturbation, place, placement, pleasure, politics, practice, precession, preparation, procedure, process, promenade, prorate, protection, provision, provoke, prowl, public knowledge, puncture, quantize, queer, question, recalculate, rectum, redound, release, remit, repercuss, representation, resolve, role, rudiment, saddle, scire facias, search, sensory activity, sequestration, serve, service, shank, shin, shoulder, shuffle, sin, skulk, slam-dunk, sleepwalk, slink, slog, slouch, small, sneak, solo, sorcerize, space walk, spacewalk, stagger, stalinize, stalk, step, stimulate, stomp, stride, strike a blow, stroll, structure, stumble, stump, subject, subpoena, subpoena duces tecum, substance, subtract, summons, support, survey, system, take care, tap, tell on, thing, thorax, timekeeping, tinge, tiptoe, tissue, tittup, toddle, toe, torso, touch, training, traipse, tramp down, transubstantiate, tread, trouble, turn, underpart, use, variation, venire facias, venter, verbalization, vocabulary, wade, warrant, waste, withers, work, works, worship, writ of detinue, writ of election, writ of error, writ of prohibition, writ of right, writing, wrongdoing

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): acromion, acrosome, aculea, agenize, air-condition, ala, alveolar arch, alveolar ridge, ammoniate, apophysis, appendix, arista, basic cognitive process, beneficiate, bertillon system, bituminize, bromate, calculation, camphorate, carbonate, carboxylate, caruncle, chelation, chlorinate, chrome, cirrus, citation, coldwork, condensation, condition, condyle, coronoid process, countermarch, creosote, crest, curry, dealignment, debouch, decrease, defense mechanism, degeneration, development, diagnostic procedure, digest, dose, economic process, emergency procedure, encapsulation, epicondyle, excrescence, execution, expedite, experimental procedure, fetlock, file, fimbria, fingerprinting, flagellum, fluoridate, fumigate, genetic profiling, goose step, hair, higher cognitive process, horn, hot-work, human process, increase, indirection, industrial process, iodize, irradiate, irreversible process, iteration, malt, mapping, mastoid, medical procedure, mercerize, metaphysis, monition, natural process, nitrate, nitrify, odontoid process, olecranon, operating procedure, operation, organic process, osteophyte, overwork, oxygenate, papilla, parade, phenomenon, photography, plant process, processing, propagate, pseudopod, pterygoid process, rack, refine, reverberate, reversible process, rework, ridge, rigmarole, routine, rule, run, scald, seed, sensitization, shaping, sleep talking, spicule, spine, stiffening, style, styloid process, subpoena, sulphur, tail, tank, tentacle, ticket, till, tool, transverse process, trochanter, tuberosity, variation, villus, vulcanize, wash, zygomatic process

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: action, actionable, litigation, march, marching, operate, procedural, proceed, process, processing, processor, suer, suit, summons, treatment, workable

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: medical, psychology, science, technology

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞): pro

Suffixes(接尾辞): s

Exam Level

高校レベル

英検2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits

Movies(映画): The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: