[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

service \serv"ice\, n. oe. servise, of. servise, service, f.
   service, from l. servitium. see serve.
   1. the act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the
      performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at
      another's command; attendance of an inferior, hired
      helper, slave, etc., on a superior, employer, master, or
      the like; also, spiritual obedience and love. "o god . . .
      whose service is perfect freedom." --bk. of com. prayer.
      1913 webster

            madam, i entreat true peace of you,
            which i will purchase with my duteous service.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

            god requires no man's service upon hard and
            unreasonable terms.                   --tillotson.
      1913 webster

   2. the deed of one who serves; labor performed for another;
      duty done or required; office.
      1913 webster

            i have served him from the hour of my nativity, . .
            . and have nothing at his hands for my service but
            blows.                                --shak.
      1913 webster

            this poem was the last piece of service i did for my
            master, king charles.                 --dryden.
      1913 webster

            to go on the forlorn hope is a service of peril; who
            will understake it if it be not also a service of
            honor?                                --macaulay.
      1913 webster

   3. office of devotion; official religious duty performed;
      religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial;
      as, a burial service.
      1913 webster

            the outward service of ancient religion, the rites,
            ceremonies, and ceremonial vestments of the old law.
                                                  --coleridge.
      1913 webster

   4. hence, a musical composition for use in churches.
      1913 webster

   5. duty performed in, or appropriate to, any office or
      charge; official function; hence, specifically, military
      or naval duty; performance of the duties of a soldier.
      1913 webster

            when he cometh to experience of service abroad . . .
            ne maketh a worthy soldier.           --spenser.
      1913 webster

   6. useful office; advantage conferred; that which promotes
      interest or happiness; benefit; avail.
      1913 webster

            the stork's plea, when taken in a net, was the
            service she did in picking up venomous creatures.
                                                  --l'estrange.
      1913 webster

   7. profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed. "pray,
      do my service to his majesty." --shak.
      1913 webster

   8. the act and manner of bringing food to the persons who eat
      it; order of dishes at table; also, a set or number of
      vessels ordinarily used at table; as, the service was
      tardy and awkward; a service of plate or glass.
      1913 webster

            there was no extraordinary service seen on the
            board.                                --hakewill.
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   9. law the act of bringing to notice, either actually or
      constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law;
      as, the service of a subpoena or an attachment.
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   10. naut. the materials used for serving a rope, etc., as
       spun yarn, small lines, etc.
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   11. tennis the act of serving the ball.
       1913 webster

   12. act of serving or covering. see serve, v. t., 13.
       1913 webster

   service book, a prayer book or missal.

   service line tennis, a line parallel to the net, and at a
      distance of 21 feet from it.

   service of a writ, process, etc. law, personal delivery
      or communication of the writ or process, etc., to the
      party to be affected by it, so as to subject him to its
      operation; the reading of it to the person to whom notice
      is intended to be given, or the leaving of an attested
      copy with the person or his attorney, or at his usual
      place of abode.

   service of an attachment law, the seizing of the person
      or goods according to the direction.

   service of an execution law, the levying of it upon the
      goods, estate, or person of the defendant.

   service pipe, a pipe connecting mains with a dwelling, as
      in gas pipes, and the like. --tomlinson.

   to accept service. law see under accept.

   to see service mil., to do duty in the presence of the
      enemy, or in actual war.
      1913 webster
see also:
serve service book service line service of a writ process service of an attachment 
service of an execution service pipe to accept service accept to see service 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

process \proc"ess\, n. f. proc`es, l. processus. see
   proceed.
   1913 webster
   1. the act of proceeding; continued forward movement;
      procedure; progress; advance. "long process of time."
      --milton.
      1913 webster

            the thoughts of men are widened with the process of
            the suns.                             --tennyson.
      1913 webster

   2. a series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive
      act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual
      course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process
      of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process;
      processes of nature.
      1913 webster

            tell her the process of antonio's end. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. a statement of events; a narrative. obs. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   4. anat.  zool. any marked prominence or projecting part,
      especially of a bone; anapophysis.
      1913 webster

   5. law the whole course of proceedings in a cause real or
      personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end
      of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the
      defendant into court to answer to the action; -- a generic
      term for writs of the class called judicial.
      1913 webster

   deacon's process from h. deacon, who introduced it
      chem., a method of obtaining chlorine gas by passing
      hydrochloric acid gas over heated slag which has been
      previously saturated with a solution of some metallic
      salt, as sulphate of copper.

   final process practice, a writ of execution in an action
      at law. --burrill.

   in process, in the condition of advance, accomplishment,
      transaction, or the like; begun, and not completed.

   jury process law, the process by which a jury is summoned
      in a cause, and by which their attendance is enforced.
      --burrill.

   leblanc's process chem., the process of manufacturing
      soda by treating salt with sulphuric acid, reducing the
      sodium sulphate so formed to sodium sulphide by roasting
      with charcoal, and converting the sodium sulphide to
      sodium carbonate by roasting with lime.

   mesne process. see under mesne.

   process milling, the process of high milling for grinding
      flour. see under milling.

   reversible process thermodynamics, any process consisting
      of a cycle of operations such that the different
      operations of the cycle can be performed in reverse order
      with a reversal of their effects.
      1913 webster
see also:
proceed deacon's process final process in process jury process leblanc's process 
mesne process mesne process milling milling reversible process 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

process
     n 1: a particular course of action intended to achieve a result;
          "the procedure of obtaining a driver's license"; "it was
          a process of trial and error" syn: procedure
     2: a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes
        through a series of states; "events now in process"; "the
        process of calcification begins later for boys than for
        girls"
     3: psychology the performance of some composite cognitive
        activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the
        process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of
        remembering" syn: cognitive process, mental process,
        operation, cognitive operation
     4: 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 syn:
        summons
     5: a mental process that you are not directly aware of; "the
        process of denial" syn: unconscious process
     6: a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an
        organism either animal or plant; "a bony process" syn: outgrowth,
         appendage
     v 1: deal with in a routine way; "i'll handle that one"; "process
          a loan"; "process the applicants"
     2: subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying
        for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition;
        "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it
        can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an
        oil spill" syn: treat
     3: perform mathematical and logical operations on data
        according to programmed instructions in order to obtain
        the required information; "the results of the elections
        were still being processed when he gave his acceptance
        speech"
     4: institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against;
        "he was warned that the district attorney would process
        him"; "she actioned the company for discrimination" syn:
        action, sue, litigate
     5: shape, form, or improve a material; "work stone into tools";
        "process iron"; "work the metal" syn: work, work on
     6: deliver a warrant or summons to someone; "he was processed
        by the sheriff" syn: serve, swear out
     7: march in a procession; "they processed into the dining room"
        syn: march
see also:
procedure cognitive process mental process operation cognitive operation summons 
unconscious process outgrowth appendage treat action 
sue litigate work work on serve 
swear out march 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

173 moby thesaurus words for "process":
   afro, mo, act, activity, algorithm, alter, analog process, answer,
   approach, arrange, attack, barber, behavior pattern, bench warrant,
   blow up, blueprint, bob, capias, carve, caveat, change, chisel,
   clear for action, clear the decks, coif, coiffure, cold wave, conk,
   convert, course, course of action, cruise, cultivate, cure,
   deal with, death warrant, deploy, develop, development,
   digital process, dispose of, dress, enlarge, excrescence,
   excrescency, extract, fare, fashion, feeling, fieri facias, fix,
   fix up, form, function, get ready, go, grow, guise,
   habere facias possessionem, haircut, hairdo, hairstyle, handle,
   harvest, headdress, hie, home permanent, hunting, injunction,
   input oscillation, interdict, journey, line, line of action, lines,
   machine, make arrangements, make preparations, make ready, manage,
   mandamus, mandate, mandatory injunction, manipulate, manner,
   manner of working, marshal, means, measure, method, methodology,
   mill, mine, mittimus, mobilize, mode, mode of operation,
   mode of procedure, modify, modus, modus operandi, motion, natural,
   nisi prius, notice, notification, offset, operation, order,
   organize, oscillatory behavior, overcorrection of error, overshoot,
   pass, permanent, permanent wave, plan, pompadour, practice,
   prearrange, precept, prep, prepare, pretreat, print, procedure,
   proceed, proceeding, procure materials, prohibitory injunction,
   provide, pump, push on, put in shape, raise, ready, ready up, rear,
   refine, repair, routine, search warrant, self-excitation,
   settle preliminaries, shingle, smelt, step, stock, stock up, store,
   style, system, tack, take care of, tan, technique, the drill,
   the how, the way of, tone, transform, travel, treat, trim, try out,
   utilize, warrant, warrant of arrest, warrant of attorney, wave,
   way, wise, writ

[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

process
     
        1.  the sequence of states of an
        executing program.  a process consists of the program code
        which may be shared with other processes which are executing
        the same program, private data, and the state of the
        processor, particularly the values in its registers.  it
        may have other associated resources such as a process
        identifier, open files, cpu time limits, shared memory,
        child processes, and signal handlers.
     
        one process may, on some platforms, consist of many
        threads.  a multitasking operating system can run
        multiple processes concurrently or in parallel, and allows
        a process to spawn "child" processes.
     
        2001-06-16
     
        2.  the sequence of activities, people, and systems
        involved in carrying out some business or achieving some
        desired result.  e.g. software development process, project
        management process, configuration management process.
     
        2001-06-16
     
     
see also:
program code processor registers process identifier cpu time 
shared memory child processes signal handlers platforms threads 
multitasking operating system concurrently parallel 

[6] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

process, rights. the means or method of accomplishing a thing. 
     2. it has been said that the word manufacture, q.v. in the patent 
laws, may, perhaps, extend to a new process, to be carried on by known 
implements, or elements, acting upon known substances, and ultimately 
producing some other known substance, but producing it in a cheaper or more 
expeditious manner, or of a better and more useful kind. 2 b.  ald. 349. 
see perpigna, manuel des inventeurs, c., c. 1; s. 5, sec. 1, p. 22, 4th 
ed.; manufacture; method. 

[7] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

process, practice. so denominated because it proceeds or issues forth in 
order to bring the defendant into court, to answer the charge preferred 
against him, and signifies the writ or judicial means by which he is brought 
to answer. 1 paine, r. 368 bouv. inst. index, h.t. 
     2. in the english law, process in civil causes is called original 
process, when it is founded upon the original writ; and also to distinguish 
it from mesne or intermediate process, which issues pending the suit, upon 
some collateral interlocutory matter, as, to summon juries, witnesses,, and 
the like; mesne process is also sometimes put in contradistinction to final 
process, or process of execution; and then it signifies all process which 
intervenes between the beginning and end of a suit. 3 bl. com. 279. 
     3. in criminal cases that proceeding which is called a warrant, before 
the finding of the bill, is termed process when issued after the indictment 
has been found by the jury. vide 4 bl. com. 319; dalt. j. c. 193; com. dig. 
process, a 1; burn's dig. process; williams, j, process; 1 chit. cr. law, 
338; 17 vin. ab. 585. 
     4. the word process in the 12th section of the 5th article of the 
constitution of pennsylvania, which provides that "the style of all process 
shall be the commonwealth of pennsylvania," was intended to refer to such 
writs only as should become necessary to be issued in the course of the 
exercise of that judicial power which is established and provided for in the 
article of the constitution, and forms exclusively the subject matter of it. 
3 penna. r. 99. 

[8] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

process, mesne, practice. by this term is generally understood any writ 
issued in the course of a suit between the original process and execution. 
     2. by this term is also meant the writ or proceedings in an action to 
summon or bring the defendant into court, or compel him to appear or put in 
bail, and then to hear and answer the plaintiffs claim. 3 chit. pr. 140. 

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