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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/processed/#m1)

2) (literal) dealt with officially (your application has been processed). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/processed/#m2)

3) (euphemism, jargon) slaughtered for meat (of farm animals). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/processed/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/processed/#x1)
- Your passport application has been processed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/processed/#x2)
- The cattle were sent to be processed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/processed/#x3)
- Chicken nuggets are made from processed meat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/processed/#x4)
- The data was processed by the computer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/processed/#x5)
- «Processed» at the farm means the animals were killed for meat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/processed/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «processed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/processed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.