Processed

Definition: Processed

Processed

Adjective

1. Subjected to a special process or treatment; "prepared ergot"; "processed cheeses are easy to spread".

2. Freed from impurities by processing; "refined sugar"; "refined oil"; "to gild refined gold"- Shakespeare.

3. Prepared or converted from a natural state by subjecting to a special process; "processed ores".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "processed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references)

Synonym: Processed

Crosswords: Processed

I've thought about this quite a bit sir and I would have to say considering what's waiting out there for me, I don't want to sell anything, buy anything or process anything as a career. I dont want to sell anything bought or processed or buy anything sold or processed or repair anything sold, bought or processed as a career (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed (Say Anything...; writing credit: Cameron Crowe)

I haven't processed everything yet. My brain isn't really functioning on the higher levels (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Just peddling those processed food bricks (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

By tomorrow, he'll have a 50 share, maybe even a 60. Howard Beale is processed instant God, and right now, it looks like he may just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore (Network; writing credit: Paddy Chayefsky)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Processed Food in Russia: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Processed Animal and Vegetable Oils, Fats, and Waxes Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Processed Cheese in The Middle East (reference)

• The World Market for Processed Cheese in Solid Form: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

• Processed Food in Brazil: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference)

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Books

• Market For Packaged, Processed, And Canned Meat: $17.1 Billion Market Begins To Reverse [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Pao Zhi: An Introduction to the Use of Processed Chinese Medicinals (reference)

• Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life (reference)

• Processed Petroleum Products Manufacturing in Indonesia [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Processed Animal and Vegetable Oils, Fats, and Waxes in Oceana [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

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High Tech

• SONIC FOUNDRY Processed Drumkits: Zero-Gravity Beats (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Processed image of Cydonia Mensae. Credit: NASA.

Processing Pacific menhaden (Ethmidium maculatum) at Hayduk cannery. These fish are being processed for human consumption. Credit: Fisheries.

Sorting pilchard (Sardinops Sagax) and chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus) in the Paita refrigeration plant. These fish are being processed for human consumption . Credit: Fisheries.

Coaches Island, gillnet samples are processed and measured. The catch is identified by species and enumerated and recorded. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Gillnet samples are processed at Coach Island. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Catfish processed and packed at the Heartland Catfish Processing plant in Itta Bena, MS. Is made ready for shipping. Credit: USDA.

When you add it all up, peanuts aren't just peanuts-they're quite an important crop. The United States produces between 3 and 4 billion pounds of peanuts annually, and about 40 percent of these go into processed foods, from salted peanuts, candy, crackers, and cookies to peanut butter. They're a major source of vegetable oil too. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

ARS agricultural engineer Yud-Ren Chen is developing a computer-directed scanning system that could help speed inspection of the nearly 8 billion chickens processed annually through federally inspected U.S. plants. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

Yes, Americans do love their spuds! We each eat about 125 pounds of them a year, about half from fresh potatoes and half in processed foods. Research has brought forth a slew of new, improved potato varieties for both uses. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Geneticist Anson E. Thompson holds a vial of lesquerella oil processed and refined at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, Illinois. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga..

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

These formulas are processed proteins (basically sugars and amino acids). (references)

The cell has quality control mechanisms to recognize and destroy improperly processed proteins. (references)

These deficits tend to become more apparent as the information to be processed becomes more complex. (references)

Business

The potential for foreign processed food exports is very promising. (references)

Imported processed food products are increasingly entering the market. (references)

The companies' forms will also be processed by Hansapank and Uhispank. (references)

Civil Liberties

Tunisia

The UNHCR processed 45 applications for asylum during the year. (references)

Netherlands

In 2000 the Government turned down 83 percent of the asylum requests that were processed. (references)

Cambodia

In August the Government also deported to Vietnam a group of up to 43 asylum-seekers who had been processed and denied refugee status by the UNHCR. (references)

Economic History

Jamaica

On the other hand, despite limited technological sophistication in the agro-processing industry, output in Processed Foods (excluding sugar, molasses and rum) increased by 3.1 percent during 2000. Production of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages continues to enjoy exceptional performance, increasing by 9.8 percent when compared to1999. (references)

Japan

Market access remains limited in a few key commodities, such as rice, tariffs remain high on high value added processed food products, and some problems remain in technical issues concerning food additives and phyto-sanitary barriers on fruits and vegetables. (references)

Japan

Export stars include, pork, ice cream, broccoli, asparagus, frozen vegetables, wine, cherries, and processed snack foods. (references)

Human Rights

Haiti

In the past, when the authorities received Haitian citizens deported from other countries for having committed crimes, they were generally processed in 1 week and then released. (references)

Rwanda

As a result of efforts by the Government, international donors, and NGO's to advertise widely the confession provisions, more than 20,000 prisoners had confessed since the law was implemented in 1996. However, only a small number of confessions were processed due to lengthy administrative review and hearing proceedings, and the lack of officials to process the confessions through the system. (references)

Mongolia

Some 16,000 petitions remain to be processed. (references)

Minorities

Slovak Republic

Numerous applications that were filed with the state for compensation for citizens who were deported to German controlled concentration camps during World War II continued to be processed at year's end. (references)

Political Economy

NICARAGUA

The country is dependent on imports for most manufactured, processed, and consumer items. (references)

POLAND

With its 1995 WTO accession, Poland ratified the Uruguay Round Subsidies Code and eliminated earlier practices of tax incentives for exporters, but it still offers drawback levies on raw materials from EU and CEFTA countries which are processed and re-exported as finished products within 30 days. (references)

Political Rights

Senegal

ONEL also noted that national identity card applications were processed illegally in some instances. (references)

Trade

Australia

These bills of exchange are processed through the exporter's and importer's banks. (references)

Nicaragua

All export documentation can be processed at the government's one-stop export center, CETREX: Centro de Trámites de las Exportaciones, Plaza El Sol, 1 1/2 al Sur No. 169, phones (505) 278-2065, 270-1587 and, Fax 270-5538. Their website is at www.cetrex.com.ni. The same services can be processed at the following locations: International Airport (Managua), Estelí, Chinandega, Rivas, Puerto Cabezas and Bluefields, and at all major land border crossings. (references)

Travel

Zambia

Most processed food is imported from South Africa and is available in urban supermarkets, although it may be expensive. (references)

Azerbaijan

The fee for processing the visa ranges from USD40 to USD250, depending on the validity of the visa (i.e. single or multiple entry) and the time in which it is processed. (references)

Peru

However, if any compensation is earned and paid while in Peru, a business visa is required and a tax declaration must be processed before departing Peru. (references)

Women

Sweden

In 2000 gender discrimination cases by 102 women and 18 men were registered with the equal opportunity Ombudsman; these cases were being processed at year's end. (references)

Finland

Of the 109 complaints processed by the Ombudsman between January 1 and June 30, 20 cases were judged to be violations of the law. (references)

Worker Rights

France

Those victims located or arrested by the authorities normally are processed as illegal immigrants and may be detained or jailed. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "processed": processed cheese ♦ processed coal ♦ processed coffee ♦ processed film ♦ processed ice ♦ processed pea ♦ processed products ♦ processed sour milk. Additional references.

Beginning with "processed": processed-foods, processed-whatever-by.

Ending with "processed": pre-processed, word-processed.

Albanian

i përpunuar (elaborate, labored, laboured, outgoing, tractable). (various references)

Bulgarian 

обработен. (various references)

Chinese 

处理 (processing). (various references)

Czech

tavený (soft). (various references)

Danish

vilkår for forarbejdning og afsætning af fiskerivarer og akvakulturprodukter (conditions under which fishery and aquaculture products are processed and marketed), undergå forædling (to be processed, to undergo processing operations), udenlandske varer,som efter at være kommet ind i frilagre eller toldlagre i landet,enten for at blive videreforarbejdet eller for at indgå i en reparation for en ikke-hjemmehørende enheds regning,igen forlader landet med den øvrige eller som del af de (after having entered free zones or bonded customs warehouses within the country, either for processing or for incorporation in repairs on behalf of non-resident units, foreign goods which, leave for the rest of the world after being processed or incorporated in the repaired goods), tilskaaret is (processed ice), Operationelle programmer for investeringer til forbedring af vilkårene for forarbejdning og afsætning af landbrugs-og skovbrugsprodukter (Operational programmes involving investments to improve the conditions under which agricultural and forestry products are processed and marketed), materialerne behandles,forarbejdes eller formes og tilbageleveres til den virksomhed,hvorfra de hidroerer (converted or shaped and then returned to the original undertaking, the material is processed), fremkaldt film (processed film), Forvaltningskomiteen for produkter forarbejdet paa basis af Frugt og Groensager (Management Committee for Products Processed from Fruit and Vegetables), forarbejdningsprodukter (converted products, processed products), forarbejdet sekundært produkt (processed secondary product), forarbejdede produkter (converted products, processed products), forarbejdede ferskner (processed peach), foraedlet folie (processed converted foil), Fælles aktion,som tager sigte på at forbedre forarbejdningen og afsætningen af fiskerivarer og akvakulturprodukter (Common measure to improve the conditions under which fishery and aquaculture products are processed and marketed), behandlede froe (processed seed). (various references)

Dutch

Operationele programma's inzake investeringen ter verbetering van verwerking en afzet van land-en bosbouwprodukten (Operational programmes involving investments to improve the conditions under which agricultural and forestry products are processed and marketed), bewerkt schroot (processed scrap), bewerkt staal (processed steel), buitenlandse goederen die,nadat zij in vrijhandelsgebieden en douane-entrepots binnen het economisch gebied zijn gebracht,hetzij om er een veredelingsbewerking te ondergaan,hetzij om te worden gebruikt voor een reparatie voor rekening van niet-ingezeten e (after having entered free zones or bonded customs warehouses within the country, either for processing or for incorporation in repairs on behalf of non-resident units, foreign goods which, leave for the rest of the world after being processed or incorporated in the repaired goods), Comite van beheer voor op basis van groenten en fruit verwerkte produkten (Management Committee for Products Processed from Fruit and Vegetables), de materialen worden behandeld,bewerkt of verwerkt en keren terug naar de oorspronkelijke onderneming (converted or shaped and then returned to the original undertaking, the material is processed), gebroken ijs (processed ice), Gemeenschappelijke actie om de verwerking en de afzet van visserij-en aquicultuurprodukten te verbeteren (Common measure to improve the conditions under which fishery and aquaculture products are processed and marketed), behandeld zaad (processed seed, treated grain, treated seed), Operationele programma's inzake investeringen ter verbetering van verwerking en afzet van land-en bosbouwproducten (Operational programmes involving investments to improve the conditions under which agricultural and forestry products are processed and marketed), voorwaarden inzake verwerking en afzet van visserij-en aquacultuurproducten (conditions under which fishery and aquaculture products are processed and marketed), secundair product (processed secondary product), veredelde folie (processed converted foil), veredelingshandelingen ondergaan (to be processed, to undergo processing operations), verwerkingsprodukten (converted products, processed products), verwerkt stro (processed straw), verwerkte perziken (processed peach), verwerkte produkten (converted products, processed products), verwerkte vis (processed fish), ontsmet zaad (processed seed). (various references)

Finnish

viili (processed sour whole milk), sulatejuustovalmiste (pasteurized process cheese food, processed cheese food), sulatejuustolevite (pasteurized process cheese spread, processed cheese spread), käsitelty siemen (processed seed), käsitelty olki (processed straw), jalostetut tuotteet (converted products, processed products), jalostetut persikat (processed peach), jaloste (processed product). (various references)

French

préparé (prepared), traité. (various references)

German

fortgeschritten (advanced, preceded, progressed, sophisticated), abgearbeitet (worn out). (various references)

Greek 

παρασκευάσματα ανακατειργασμένων τυριών (pasteurized process cheese food, processed cheese food), Λειτουργικά προγράμματα που ευνοούν επενδύσεις οι οποίες αποσκοπούν στη βελτίωση των συνθηκών μεταποίησης και εμπορίας των γεωργικών και (Operational programmes involving investments to improve the conditions under which agricultural and forestry products are processed and marketed), ανακατειργασμένα τρόφιμα (processed food), ανακατειργασμένα επαλειφόμενα τυριά (pasteurized process cheese spread, processed cheese spread), ανακατειργασμένα εμπλουτισμένα τυριά (pasteurized process cheese food, processed cheese food), επεξεργασμένος σπόρος (processed seed, treated grain, treated seed), επεξεργασμένα προϊόντα (processed products), εμφανισμένο φιλμ (processed film), η μονάδα ομοιογενούς παραγωγής χαρακτηρίζεται από μια αποκλειστική δραστηριότητα,η οποία προσδιορίζεται από τις εισροές της,από μια συγκ� (a particular process of production and its outputs.The products which constitute the inputs and outputs are themselves distinguished not only by their physical characteristics and the extent to which they are processed but also by the technique of product, The distinguishing feature of a unit of homogeneous production is a unique activity which is identified by its inputs), Eπιτροπή Διαχείρισης Mεταποιημένων Προïόντων με βάση τα Oπωροκηπευτικά (Management Committee for Products Processed from Fruit and Vegetables), υφίσταμαι εργασίες τελειοποίησης (to be processed, to undergo processing operations), Κοινή δράση η οποία αποσκοπεί στη βελτίωση των συνθηκών μεταποίησης και εμπορίας των προϊόντων αλιείας και υδατοκαλλιέργειας (Common measure to improve the conditions under which fishery and aquaculture products are processed and marketed), προϊόντα εξωτερικού,τα οποία,αφού έχουν εισαχθεί στις ελεύθερες ζώνες ή στις αποθήκες τελωνειακού ελέγχου μέσα στη χώρα,είτε για επεξεργα� (either for processing or for incorporation in repairs on behalf of non-resident units, leave for the rest of the world after being processed or incorporated in the repaired goods), μεταποιημένα προϊόντα (converted products, processed products), συνθήκες μεταποίησης και διάθεσης στο εμπόριο των προϊόντων αλιείας και υδατοκαλλιέργειας (conditions under which fishery and aquaculture products are processed and marketed), ραδάκινα μεταποιημένα (processed peach), κατατετμημένος πάγος (processed ice), κατεργασμένο αλουμινόφυλλο (processed converted foil), κατεργασμένο φύλλο αλουμινίου (processed converted foil), κατεργασμένος άνθρακας (prepared coal, processed coal, treated coal), κατεργασμένα απομέταλλα (processed scrap), η κατεργασία,μεταποίηση ή μορφοποίηση των υλικών και η επιστροφή τους στην επιχείρηση προελεύσεως (converted or shaped and then returned to the original undertaking, the material is processed). (various references)

Hebrew 

מותך (melted, molten), מעובד (adapted, arranged, wrought). (various references)

Hungarian

megmunkált (elaborate), feldolgozott (wrought). (various references)

Italian

Programmi operativi a favore di investimenti intesi a migliorare le condizioni di trasformazione e di commercializzazione dei prodotti agricoli e della silvicoltura (Operational programmes involving investments to improve the conditions under which agricultural and forestry products are processed and marketed), prodotto secondario lavorato (processed secondary product), prodotto lavorato al minimo (minimally processed food), prodotti trasformati (converted products, processed products), pesche sottoposte a trattamento (processed peach), paglia trattata (processed straw), L'unita di produzione omogenea è caratterizzata da un'attività unica,e cioè da una struttura di costi,un processo di produzione e un'uscita di prodotti omogenei.I beni e servizi che entrano a far parte dei costi e della produzione sono essi stessi cara (a particular process of production and its outputs.The products which constitute the inputs and outputs are themselves distinguished not only by their physical characteristics and the extent to which they are processed but also by the technique of product, The distinguishing feature of a unit of homogeneous production is a unique activity which is identified by its inputs), ardesia lavorata (processed slate), Azione comune intesa a migliorare le condizioni di trasformazione e di commercializzazione dei prodotti della pesca e dell'acquacoltura (Common measure to improve the conditions under which fishery and aquaculture products are processed and marketed), carbone preparato (prepared coal, processed coal, treated coal), Comitato di gestione per i prodotti trasformati a base di ortofrutticoli (Management Committee for Products Processed from Fruit and Vegetables), condizioni di trasformazione e di commercializzazione dei prodotti della pesca e dell'acquacoltura (conditions under which fishery and aquaculture products are processed and marketed), essere oggetto di operazioni di perfezionamento (to be processed, to undergo processing operations), ghiaccio frazionato (processed ice), alluminio lavorato (processed converted foil), le materie sono trattate,trasformate o formate e restituite all'impresa di origine (converted or shaped and then returned to the original undertaking, the material is processed), semilavorato (half-processed, semifinished), rottame lavorato (processed scrap), sementi trattate (processed seed), i beni esteri i quali,entrati in zone franche e depositi doganali nazionali per essere lavorati o per essere incorporati in una riparazione per conto d'unità non residenti,ne escono per essere destinati al resto del mondo,dopo la lavorazione o dopo esser (after having entered free zones or bonded customs warehouses within the country, either for processing or for incorporation in repairs on behalf of non-resident units, foreign goods which, leave for the rest of the world after being processed or incorporated in the repaired goods). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

精肉 (good quality meat, processed meat, small goods), 加工紙 (coated paper, processed paper), 加工品 (finished goods, processed goods), 水産加工品 (processed marine products). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すいさんかこうひん (processed marine products), せいにく (good quality meat, processed meat, raw or fresh meat, small goods), かこうひん (finished goods, priming materials, processed goods), かこうし (coated paper, dental bridge, processed paper). (various references)

Korean 

가공하는 (Wrought). (various references)

Pig Latin

ocessedpray.(various references)

Portuguese

processado. (various references)

Russian 

обрабатывать обработанный, проявленный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

obrađen (cultivated). (various references)

Spanish

paja tratada (processed straw), Programas operativos en favor de inversiones para la mejora de las condiciones de transformación y comercialización de los productos agrícolas y silvícolas (Operational programmes involving investments to improve the conditions under which agricultural and forestry products are processed and marketed), productos transformados (converted products, processed products), productos elaborados (converted products, processed products), producto secundario transformato (processed secondary product), película revelada (processed film), carbón preparado (prepared coal, processed coal, treated coal), Comité de Gestión de Productos Transformados de Frutas y Hortalizas (Management Committee for Products Processed from Fruit and Vegetables), condiciones de transformación y comercialización de los productos de la pesca y de la acuicultura (conditions under which fishery and aquaculture products are processed and marketed), hoja de aluminio transformada (processed converted foil), la unidad de producción homogénea se caracteriza por una actividad única, a saber: por sus inputs, un determinado proceso de producción y sus outputs de productos homogéneos. Los productos que constituyen los inputs y los outputs se caracterizan a su (a particular process of production and its outputs.The products which constitute the inputs and outputs are themselves distinguished not only by their physical characteristics and the extent to which they are processed but also by the technique of product, The distinguishing feature of a unit of homogeneous production is a unique activity which is identified by its inputs), Acción Común destinada a hacer posible la Mejora de las Condiciones de Transformación y Comercialización de los Productos de la Pesca y de la Acuicultura (Common measure to improve the conditions under which fishery and aquaculture products are processed and marketed), melocotones elaborados (processed peach), someterse a operaciones de perfeccionamiento (to be processed, to undergo processing operations), semilla tratada (processed seed), los bienes extranjeros que, habiendo entrado en las zonas francas y depósitos aduaneros nacionales para su transformación o para ser incorporados en una reparación por cuenta de unidades no residentes, salen con destino al resto del mundo después del (after having entered free zones or bonded customs warehouses within the country, either for processing or for incorporation in repairs on behalf of non-resident units, foreign goods which, leave for the rest of the world after being processed or incorporated in the repaired goods). (various references)

Swedish

tillverkade (crafted, manufactured), tillverkad (crafted, made, manufacted, manufactured). (various references)

Ukrainian

оброблений (cultivated, finished, tilled), проявлений. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "processed": overprocessed, preprocessed, reprocessed, unprocessed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Processed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pocessed, precesed, precessed, processe, processer. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: deposers, precodes, proceeds.

-2 letters: corpses, crossed, deposer, deposes, depress, precess, precode, pressed, proceed, process, recodes, reposed, reposes, screeds, speedos.

-3 letters: ceders, cessed, coders, copers, copses, corpse, corses, credos, creeds, creeps, creped, crepes, crosse, decors, depose, dopers, dosers, dosser, epodes, eposes, erodes, eroses, pedros, perses, posers, prosed, proses, recess, recode, redoes, repose, resods, scoped.

+1 letter: compressed, decompress.

+2 letters: decomposers, predecessor, prefocussed, reprocessed, unprocessed.

+3 letters: compressedly, copresidents, decompressed, decompresses, predecessors, preprocessed, processioned.

+4 letters: corespondents, decompressing, decompression, overprocessed, phosphoresced.

+5 letters: correspondents, decompressions, overcompressed, preadolescents, predaceousness, prediscoveries, productiveness, redescriptions, supercolliders.