Processed I Process Food Cheese Verb Bre ˈprəʊses

• most of the food we buy is processed in some way.
• processed cheese
• i sent three rolls of film away to be processed.
• it will take a week for your application to be processed.

process

1. to treat raw material, food, etc. in order to change it, preserve it, etc.
• Most of the food we buy is processed in some way.
• processed cheese
• I sent three rolls of film away to be processed.
2. to deal officially with a document, request, etc.
• It will take a week for your application to be processed.
3. to perform a series of operations on data in a computer

Extra Examples

• It was a second later when I fully processed what he had said.
• My brain slowly processed the fact that I was free to leave.
• The berries are processed into juice or sauce.
• The image is processed digitally by computer software.
• The plant is then processed for dye.
• highly processed foods
• properly processed black-and-white photographs
• tobacco specially processed to reduce nicotine
• They are aiming to increase production from the meat processing plant.
• They use processed cheese in their cheeseburgers.
• When food is processed, many of the nutrients are stripped away.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they process
• he / she / it processes
• past simple processed
• past participle processed
• -ing form processing

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old French proces, from Latin processus ‘progression, course’, from the verb procedere, from pro- ‘forward’ + cedere ‘go’. Current senses of the verb date from the late 19th cent.