function

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01. The [function] of the heart is to pump blood throughout the body.
02. The power station should be fully [functional] by the end of the year.
03. What exactly is the [function] of this machine over here?
04. I really can't [function] if I don't get a good night's sleep.
05. Our dog is very old, and has lost control of his bodily [functions], so we're going to have to have him put to sleep.
06. I still don't even know how to use half the [functions] of this computer program.
07. This futon also [functions] as a fold-up sofa.
08. I prefer a car which is simply [functional] to some luxury or sporty model.
09. Frank Lloyd Wright said once that the heart is the chief feature of a [functioning] mind.
10. When you sneeze, all your bodily [functions] stop, even your heart.
11. If 80 percent of your liver were to be removed, the remaining part would continue to [function].
12. Researchers have found that one [function] of the brain is to produce substances that can improve your health.
13. The foundation of the activity of a living cell is a set of patterns that describe how it is to [function].
14. Our global economy now [functions] primarily to produce profit for large corporations.
15. Biology and environment interact to transform an infant into a [functioning] member of society.
16. In Islamic cultures, the right hand is used for eating, while the left is used for bathroom [functions] only.
17. A person with poor kidney [function] often has trouble excreting excess fluids, and retains them in the body.
18. The crew on commercial airline flights are trained to [function] in all sorts of emergencies.
19. Lord Thomas Dewar once said that minds are like parachutes - they only [function] when open.
20. I read somewhere that 70% of VCR owners say they've never used the timer [function].
21. She was raised in a very [dysfunctional] family atmosphere and finds it hard to develop close relationships as a result.
22. John Barlow once said that the Internet treats censorship as a [malfunction] and routes around it.
23. The machinery [functioned] well for the first couple of days, but then began to have problems.
24. The factory is [functionally] designed. It is not supposed to be nice looking - it's been built for one purpose, and that is to produce shoes.
25. Our earth [functions] as a dynamic system on a scale which many may find difficult to grasp.
26. His severe emotional [dysfunction] was very clearly apparent.
27. The doctors diagnosed kidney and liver [dysfunction], so the patient had to get transplants or he would die.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • Function — Func tion, n. [L. functio, fr. fungi to perform, execute, akin to Skr. bhuj to enjoy, have the use of: cf. F. fonction. Cf. {Defunct}.] 1. The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; performance. In the function of his public …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • function — n 1 Function, office, duty, province are comparable when they mean the act, acts, activities, or operations expected of a person or thing by virtue of his or its nature, structure, status, or position. Function is the most comprehensive of these… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • function — 1. The noun has a number of technical meanings in mathematics and information technology, and has acquired general meanings that caused Fowler (1926) to categorize it as a popularized technicality. As a noun, it is often used somewhat… …   Modern English usage

  • function — [fuŋk′shən] n. [OFr < L functio < pp. of fungi, to perform < IE base * bheug , to enjoy > Sans bhuṅktē, (he) enjoys] 1. the normal or characteristic action of anything; esp., any of the natural, specialized actions of a system, organ …   English World dictionary

  • Function — may refer to:* Function (biology), explaining why a feature survived selection * Function (mathematics), an abstract entity that associates an input to a corresponding output according to some rule * Function (engineering), related to the… …   Wikipedia

  • function — I noun appropriate activity, assignment, business, chore, design, duty, employment, exploitation, mission, munus, occupation, office, officium, performance, purpose, pursuit, responsibility, role, task, usage, use, utility, work associated… …   Law dictionary

  • Functĭon — (v. lat. Functio), 1) Verrichtung; Amtsverrichtung; daher Functioniren, ein Amt verrichten; 2) nach Kant die Einheit der Handlung, verschiedene Vorstellungen unter eine gemeinschaftliche zu ordnen; 3) die naturgemäße Thätigkeit eines Organs; 4)… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • function — [n1] capacity, job action, activity, affair, behavior, business, charge, concern, duty, employment, exercise, faculty, goal, mark, mission, object, objective, occupation, office, operation, part, post, power, province, purpose, raison d’être*,… …   New thesaurus

  • function — ► NOUN 1) an activity that is natural to or the purpose of a person or thing. 2) a large or formal social event or ceremony. 3) a computer operation corresponding to a single instruction from the user. 4) Mathematics a relation or expression… …   English terms dictionary

  • Function — Func tion (f[u^][ng]k sh[u^]n), Functionate Func tion*ate, v. i. To execute or perform a function; to transact one s regular or appointed business. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • function — function, functionalism Although the use of the concepts of function and functionalism is usually associated with the work of Talcott Parsons in modern sociology, there is a long tradition of functional explanation in studying societies, and a… …   Dictionary of sociology

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