processed

«processed» in Mova's school dictionary: changed by a factory or machine (processed food) — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective and verb (process, processes, processed, processing)

meaning for a pupil

1) (literal) changed by a factory or machine (processed food). tree →

2) (literal) dealt with officially (your application has been processed). tree →

3) (euphemism, jargon) slaughtered for meat (of farm animals). tree →

sense in the lessons

The meat industry uses «processed» to talk about killing animals in clean words. In other senses it is a normal word. Jargon register for the animal sense; everyday and official for the others.

examples

• Processed food often has lots of salt. tree →
• Your passport application has been processed. tree →
• The cattle were sent to be processed. tree →
• Chicken nuggets are made from processed meat. tree →
• The data was processed by the computer. tree →
• «Processed» at the farm means the animals were killed for meat. tree →

note

Most of the time it means changed or dealt with. For farm animals it means killed. Plain words: killed, slaughtered (for animals).

In the corpora

• "Processed" means farm animals were slaughtered for meat.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «processed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.