Function is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FUNCTION in dictionary:

VERB:
• to perform or act
• work or operate in a proper or particular way
• fulfil the purpose or task of (a specified thing)
• Alt. of Functionate
• perform as expected when applied
• serve a purpose, role, or function
• perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function
• operate or work
NOUN:
• an activity that is natural to or the purpose of a person or thing
• practical use or purpose in design
• a basic task of a computer, especially one that corresponds to a single instruction from the user.
• a relation or expression involving one or more variables
• a variable quantity regarded in relation to one or more other variables in terms of which it may be expressed or on which its value depends
• a functional group
• a thing dependent on another factor or factors
• a large or formal social event or ceremony
• purpose something exists for
• The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.
• The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body.
• The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind.
• The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.
• A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x.
• (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function)
• what something is used for
• the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
• a relation such that one thing is dependent on another
• a formal or official social gathering or ceremony
• a vaguely specified social event
• a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to be in action

Words related to FUNCTION

functioned16 functioning17 functionless17 functions14

How to use FUNCTION in a sentence

• Meanwhile you see what Professor Bergson means by insisting that the function of the intellect is practical rather than theoretical.
• He engages to go where God pleases, and to do, or endure what he sees fit to command, or call him to, in the exercise of his function.
• She was so great a factor in the social life at Cambridge that no function could have been a complete success without the stimulus of her presence.
• Those who are opposed to this proposition tell us that the issue of paper money is a function of the bank, and that the government ought to go out of the banking business.
• Not until the last function has been made will a widower or a widow marry again, being more afraid of the dead than are other relatives.
• Just as morality has no function to be artistic, so Art has nothing to do with morality.
• The advocatus diaboli has a useful function in science.
• We recognize the general equality of the two sexes, but demand a differentiation of function which will correspond to biological sex-specialization.
• But for their actual function they were quite useless.
• Every function of government had been performed by its officers and men, if performed at all.
• Williams, for motives most excellently worthy of his function, inclines to surrender up to Mr.
• Let us suppose, then, the function of sight to be in operation.
• It was said that the Australian authorities had tried to hang him several times, but failed because the noose slipped over his chin and ears, refusing its usual function.
• Each of these deities represented a function, a moment in the life of man or of the universe.
• Its function is to increase the energy of the idea.
• The hostile power planted in the heart of the nation destroyed all possibility of central government, while it was itself incapable of fulfilling that function.

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