英和和英

動詞

word-process (third-person singular simple present word-processes, present participle word-processing, simple past and past participle word-processed)

1. Alternative form of wordprocess.
   • 2000, Catherine Fox, chapter 9, in Love for the Lost, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 101:

     In the distance there was a growl of thunder. I didn’t leave my computer on, did I? thought Isobel. A colleague at Oxford had once been word-processing during a storm with disastrous results.

   • 2004, Marilyn M. Fisher, chapter 4, in The Case of the Three Dead Horses, Salt Lake City, Ut.: Bedside Books, →ISBN, pages 37–38:

     Once he’d surprised her when he mentioned he loved some Shakespearean lines about horses. “I’ve always remembered them, Con. We had to read Henry V in college.” Slowly, he repeated them: “‘Think when we talk of horses that you see them/Printing their proud hoofs i’ the receiving earth.’” […] She had word-processed the lines for herself, bought a frame at Wal-Mart, and placed the humble copy on her beside table.

   • 2023 April 29, Sue Bruns, “Why didn’t anyone ever tell me that?”, in Pioneer Weekender, 127th year, number 13, Bemidji, Minn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A7, column 3:

     I was composing one day and somehow I had inadvertently selected a large chunk of text and deleted it. It wasn’t the first time I’d experienced this frustration. I complained to my son Eric about it and he said, ‘Just hit Ctrl+Z and it will come back.’ I couldn’t believe I had been word-processing for over 20 years and no one had ever told me about it!