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  • Scientist do not know all the functions that the nutrient performs.
    functions = purposes or natural activities
  • Without wisdom I could not fulfill my function of advising the Committee of Elders when they call upon me.   (source)
    function = job
  • Crude references to bodily functions usually put a stop to Myra.   (source)
    functions = natural activities
  • As you well know, conscientious animal husbandry serves the same function in domesticated animals that natural selection serves in the wild.   (source)
    function = purpose
  • I cleaned every nook and cranny of every fork, spoon, knife, butter knife, cheese server, iced-tea spoon, carving knife, and oyster fork, not to mention the pieces whose function completely eluded me.   (source)
  • That is, until they learned that to better illustrate the function of his machines, Webster had asked his father to send him fifty cases of American cigarettes and chocolate bars.   (source)
  • I hope the story of my life and Wes's will serve a similar function in the lives of readers.   (source)
  • It never occurred to them that plants were actually living things, busily performing all the living functions of respiration, ingestion, excretion, reproduction-and defense.   (source)
    functions = natural activities
  • Well, that's kind of complicated, Lizbeth, but essentially Wonderland records a virtual map of your cognitive functions.   (source)
    functions = activities or operations
  • All onboard computers could control all ships' functions.   (source)
    functions = operations (jobs)
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  • The regularity of their number system also means that Asian children can perform basic functions, such as addition, far more easily.   (source)
    functions = tasks
  • This was the first time he had admitted the double function of the fire. Certainly one was to send up a beckoning column of smoke; but the other was to be a hearth now and a comfort until they slept.   (source)
    function = purpose
  • Simply, it was this: for good purposes, even high purposes, the people of Salem developed a theocracy, a combine of state and religious power whose function was to keep the community together, and to prevent any kind of disunity that might open it to destruction by material or ideological enemies.   (source)
  • He issued instructions that anticipated by many years Louis Sullivan's famous admonition that form must follow function.   (source)
  • There's a very old tradition in poetry of adding a little stanza, shorter than the rest, at the end of a long narrative poem or sometimes a book of poems. The function differed from poem to poem. The function differed from poem to poem.   (source)
  • The Ports serve a function analogous to airports: This is where you drop into the Metaverse from somewhere else.   (source)
  • They have different functions.   (source)
    functions = purposes
  • Nonetheless, as they navigated the deserted corridors, Trish gave him a general synopsis of the SMSC's purpose and function, including the various pods and their contents.   (source)
    function = operation
  • So listen: A motorcycle may be divided for purposes of classical rational analysis by means of its component assemblies and by means of its functions.   (source)
    functions = purposes
  • Plato's ideal state is not unlike the old Hindu caste system, in which each and every person has his or her particular function for the good of the whole.   (source)
    function = purpose, job, or natural activity
  • The premise of apartheid was that whites were superior to Africans, Coloureds, and Indians, and the function of it was to entrench white supremacy forever.   (source)
    function = purpose
  • And even with Jackie on one flank and Toots on the other—a couple of porkos who function as natural barriers—people keep pressing in, showing a sense of mission.   (source)
    function = act (work as)
  • As images he'd taken just a month earlier, of Fatima, Nargiz, and their classmates, smiling over their textbooks in the newly built Gultori Girls Refugee School, flashed across the screen, Mortenson noticed a professorial-looking middle-aged male customer leaning around a corner, trying to unobtrusively study a display of multifunction digital watches.   (source)
    multifunction = characterized by having multiple purposes
  • What was the true function of their triangle in this bizarre case?   (source)
    function = purpose
  • That is only natural, just as it is natural for a man whose life function is the making of money to make money out of a war.   (source)
  • His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt towards an individual than towards an organization.   (source)
    function = job
  • One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.   (source)
    functions = jobs
  • Instead of rambling, this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the country-side — East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety.   (source)
    function = purpose
  • It is your duty as a magistrate, and I believe and hope that your feelings as a man will not revolt from the execution of those functions on this occasion.   (source)
    functions = responsibilities (jobs)
  • He referred to a subsystem of the BQQ-5 multifunction submarine sonar.†   (source)
  • And the McDoo means MCDU, the multifunction control and display unit.†   (source)
  • See, it's the first function of any organization to control its own sphincters.   (source)
    function = job
  • Of course, novelists being what they are, they generally use this function ironically.   (source)
    function = capability
  • One function is a locator, the other is a detonator.   (source)
    function = activity or operation
  • That is an important function, because guns are illegal in Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong.   (source)
    function = job
  • Well, the function of the Raft is to bring more biomass.   (source)
    function = purpose
  • There was no real reason for the man to be there; he performed no necessary function.   (source)
    function = job
  • The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.   (source)
    function = purpose
  • To know what the components are for, a division according to functions is necessary: A motorcycle may be divided into normal running functions and special, operator-controlled functions.   (source)
    functions = purposes
  • Furniture was standard throughout the community: practical, sturdy, the function of each piece clearly defined.   (source)
    function = purpose
  • Pitched arguments were made for or against the importance of gait, hocks, flanks, the function of the tail; the optimum angle of the pasterns, how much this might vary between the Fortunate Fields lines and the Sawtelle dogs; whether one could ever discriminate between willingness to work and more general intelligence; whether body sensitivity was learned or inherited.   (source)
  • For Jozef Halecki was one of those rare executives who had mastered the secret of delegation—that is, having assigned the oversight of the hotel's various functions to capable lieutenants, he made himself scarce.   (source)
    functions = jobs
  • From what I'd heard about Mother, she might have insisted I be sent to school — the Alma Ladies' College, or some such worthy, dreary institution — to learn something functional but equally dreary, like shorthand; but as for a debut, that would have been vanity.   (source)
    functional = useful
  • Somehow, the oneness of this shared experience, the coalescing of millions of minds, had affected the randomizing function of these machines, organizing their outputs and bringing order from chaos.   (source)
    function = activity
  • We sense the disjunction between what books ought to be and the function assigned to them here by Forster.   (source)
    function = purpose
  • No writer in the West can employ a rainbow without being aware of its signifying aspect, its biblical function.   (source)
    function = natural activity
  • While we may have minor associations with pots of gold and leprechauns, the main function of the image of the rainbow is to symbolize divine promise, peace between heaven and earth.   (source)
    function = purpose
  • And that is the function of the Raft.   (source)
  • Materializing out of nowhere (or vanishing back into Reality) is considered to be a private function best done in the confines of your own House.   (source)
    function = activity
  • And of course there's the Bible: among its many other functions, it too is part of the one big story.   (source)
    functions = natural activities
  • Yet very near the end of his life, only in his early forties and dying of tuberculosis, he pens this outrageously frank, open novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, about love and sex between members of two very different classes, between a peer's wife and her husband's gamekeeper, a man who uses all the Anglo-Saxon words for body parts and functions.   (source)
  • It always seems to be ruled by that small percentage of the human population that is capable of partying until five in the morning every single night, and that has no other function.   (source)
    function = purpose
  • The room is completely rebuilt, no vestige of its original function, the window covered over, everything smooth and beige and smelling like a hospital.   (source)
  • He created an archaeology department whose sole function was to dig up the city of Eridu, locate the temple where Enki stored all of his [Sumerian] me, and take it all home.   (source)
  • She just looked at him over the rotating pencil like, how slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?   (source)
    functions = natural activities
  • There were also [Sumerian] me for higher-level functions such as war, diplomacy, and religious ritual.   (source)
    functions = purposes
  • But one of the major functions of his Third World missionaries was to go out into the hinterlands and vaccinate people-and there was more than just vaccine in those needles.   (source)
    functions = jobs
  • The function of the team was investigation of possible extraterrestrial life forms introduced on American spacecraft returning to earth.   (source)
    function = purpose or job
  • The function of this court as is the function of the court in any other country is to enforce law and order and to enforce the laws of the state within which it functions.   (source)
    function = purpose
  • The code for the directive was Cautery, since the function of the bomb was to cauterize the infection—to burn it out, and thus prevent its spread.   (source)
  • A fourth group was engaged in preliminary design of a machine that would carry out all human functions and would be self-duplicating.   (source)
    functions = activities
  • In their millions the frog songs seemed to have a beat and a cadence, and perhaps it is the ears' function to do this just as it is the eyes' business to make stars twinkle.   (source)
    function = job
  • Prophet, seer, philosopher, musician, there is no man-made word I know of to describe this sort of one, or the function he performs.   (source)
  • And I suspect that by trying to produce something that close to the human brain in structure and function, the seemingly inevitable randomness of its model got included in.   (source)
    function = purpose
  • While I had never had to use one, I had always found the presence of a decompression chamber on the bottom a thing of comfort, despite its slightly ominous function for the sort of work we would be doing.   (source)
  • How well we succeeded, and whether possession of the world's likeness does indeed provide its custodians with a greater measure of control over its functions, are questions my former colleagues still debate as the music grows more shrill and you can't see the maps for the pins.   (source)
    functions = tasks or natural activities
  • For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away.   (source)
    function = purpose
  • It was still true that men were not equal in their native talents and that functions had to be specialized in ways that favoured some individuals against others; but there was no longer any real need for class distinctions or for large differences of wealth.   (source)
    functions = jobs
  • During the two years that had elapsed previous to their marriage my father had gradually relinquished all his public functions; and immediately after their union they sought the pleasant climate of Italy, and the change of scene and interest attendant on a tour through that land of wonders, as a restorative for her weakened frame.   (source)
    functions = responsibilities
  • The Algernon-Gordon Effect: A Study of Structure and Function of Increased Intelligence   (source)
    function = activity or operation
  • There might be regression to an even more primitive level of functioning.   (source)
    functioning = activity
  • Yet, I am grateful for the little bit that I here add to the knowledge of the function of the human mind and of the laws governing the artificial increase of human intelligence.   (source)
  • Motor activity impaired; general reduction of glandular functioning; accelerated loss of coordination; and strong indications of progressive amnesia.   (source)
  • ...Present fears
    Are less than horrible imaginings.
    My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
    Shakes so my single state of man, that function
    Is smother'd in surmise; and nothing is
    But what is not.   (source)
    function = natural activity, work, or operability
  • A functionless organ, utterly obsolete, living on the taxpayers.†   (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-less" in functionless means without and reverses the meaning of function. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
  • They turned into a gray, anonymous building which had two functionless pillars on either side of the door and an immense plain of imitation marble and leather beyond it.†   (source)
  • Thus one ARPL group was concerned with electronic pacing of brain function (a euphemism for mind control); a second had prepared a study of biosynergics, the future possible combinations of man and machines implanted inside the body; still another was evaluating Project Ozma, the search for extraterrestrial life conducted in 1961-4.   (source)
    function = activity
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  • The kitchen table also functions as a study desk.
    functions = works or operates
  • If the hurricane is bad, the school gym will function as an emergency shelter.
    function = work or operate
  • The computer isn't functional.
    functional = working
  • The computer isn't functioning properly.
    functioning = working or operating
  • Moderate exercise improves brain function.
    function = operation (how well it works)
  • My brain does not function as well when I'm under stress.
    function = work
  • I knew people could go crazy—they'd wear dead cats on their heads or fall in love with a turnip—but the notion that a person could be functional, lucid, persuasive, and something could still be wrong, had never occurred to me.   (source)
    functional = capable of doing things that need to be done in life
  • Sometimes, though, when his heartbeat neutralized and his body became functional again, he would turn off the lamp and stand in the darkness of the basement.   (source)
    functional = capable of working well
  • The constant gunfire and curfews had made it impossible for the hospital to function, so he had moved it to Barikot.   (source)
    function = work or operate
  • Never mind that we taught each other to ride a bicycle with no hands, or to build a fully functional homemade camera out of a cardboard box.   (source)
    functional = capable of working
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  • For a few days, I'll be able to function with unpleasant symptoms of dehydration, but after that I'll deteriorate into helplessness and be dead in a week, tops.   (source)
    function = carry on (work or operate)
  • It takes a moment for him to get his brain functioning again.   (source)
    functioning = working
  • The Slabs functions as the seasonal capital of a teeming itinerant society, a tolerant, rubber-tired culture comprising the retired, the exiled, the destitute, the perpetually unemployed.   (source)
    functions = operates
  • Your mother will think we can function without her.   (source)
    function = carry on (continue to do things)
  • And of course our community can't function smoothly if people don't use precise language.   (source)
    function = operate
  • It should be functional yet attractive, with lots of copper pots hanging from the ceiling.   (source)
    functional = designed to be useful
  • He'd stopped by the office that morning ahead of them and said, in no uncertain terms, to make it quick, that Trudy and her son were wrecked, barely functioning.   (source)
    functioning = working (doing what needs to be done in life)
  • You're the key to the correct functioning of the gate.   (source)
    functioning = operation (to work properly)
  • "Without a certain baseline of people who take advantage of others," I continued, "society just doesn't function."   (source)
    function = work properly
  • Papaw's death turned a semi-functioning addict into a woman unable to follow the basic norms of adult behavior.   (source)
    functioning = doing what needs to be done in life
  • My equipment was functional, my training was sound, my faith confirmed.   (source)
    functional = capable of working well
  • I knew from my research that the cassette recorder functioned as the TRS-80's "tape drive."   (source)
    functioned = worked or operated
  • She thought she was trying to think, but her flattened-out mind was as unable to function as her lungs; her thoughts were squashed along with the rest of her.   (source)
    function = work
  • All the park systems are back, and functioning correctly.   (source)
    functioning = working
  • Jem, educated on a half-Decimal half-Duncecap basis, seemed to function effectively alone or in a group, but Jem was a poor example: no tutorial system devised by man could have stopped him from getting at books.   (source)
    function = work
  • Our militaries had been decimated, but there were still functional units on every continent.   (source)
    functional = able to work
  • The white knight and rook were tending to their men, bandaging wounds suffered in the Emerald Drive skirmish, instructing them to double-check all ammunition supplies and be sure weapons were functioning properly.   (source)
    functioning = working
  • I was really hoping I'd wake up to a functional lander, but no such luck.   (source)
  • He identified the most common and most functional uses for bricks and blankets and simply stopped.   (source)
    functional = able to work
  • It [the mechanical hound] doesn't like or dislike. It just 'functions'.   (source)
    functions = works or operates
  • There was no functioning government, and it was beyond lawless.   (source)
    functioning = properly working
  • Your character crashes his car into a billboard but is unhurt because his seat belt functions as designed.   (source)
    functions = works or operates
  • The kid couldn't function.   (source)
    function = do what would normally be expected
  • They can go deep inside the cell, into the nucleus, and actually change the way the cell functions.   (source)
    functions = works or operates
  • "A thing exists," he said, "if a world without it can't function normally."   (source)
    function = work
  • The room was functional and unpretentious, devoid of trophies or awards or laminated articles.   (source)
    functional = useful for its purpose
  • For thirty years, the ANC had functioned clandestinely in South Africa; those habits and techniques were deeply ingrained.   (source)
    functioned = worked or operated
  • I'm gonna keep on talking as long as I got a larynx that can function.   (source)
    function = work or operate
  • Every other object, from blackened cooking tools to oft-repaired oil lanterns, seemed strictly functional.   (source)
    functional = designed to perform tasks efficiently (without other concerns)
  • I was just Travis 2.0—all the same files in a brand-new, fully functioning operating system.   (source)
    functioning = working
  • It seems to be functioning all right now.   (source)
    functioning = working or operating
  • Her mind functioned like a wooden mind, her body moved crookedly like a badly operated marionette, but she went steadily about her business.   (source)
    functioned = worked or operated
  • His mind functioned without flaw, trying to calculate his surroundings and predicament.†   (source)
  • One priest was working in his office, his back turned to the bay windows, while the other was seated on a bench at a round table in the large vestibule that evidently functioned as a room for receiving visitors.†   (source)
  • Oh, sure, I went to school and I functioned the best I could, but I didn't go there on the bus.†   (source)
  • The house looked less functionally bare than it had in Daddy's day, and the white brocade couch formed the centerpiece of a living-room suite that included a new co-ordinating wing-back chair and an oak side table.†   (source)
  • The many empty windows of the textile mills bounced back this light—the building's vast size and emptiness suggested an industry so self-possessed that it functioned completely without a human labor force.†   (source)
  • It functioned as a trail of clues disguised as religious art.†   (source)
  • That's just how the world around him functioned.†   (source)
  • The way it functioned was very interesting.†   (source)
  • Ender did not understand how the game functioned anymore.†   (source)
  • I was thirty-six then and had been with Dennis nearly sixteen years and I'd never functioned without him.†   (source)
  • Five of our arrestor rods still functioned, although neither Tuk nor l was eager to test them another night.†   (source)
  • They functioned as an assembly line churning out products never meant to be market-tested.†   (source)
  • Sullivan admired both Root and Adler but believed they functioned on a lesser plane.†   (source)
  • Comrade Namboodiripad's house functioned as the hotel's dining room, where semi-suntanned tourists in bathing suits sipped tender coconut water (served in the shell), and old Communists, who now worked as fawning bearers in colorful ethnic clothes, stooped slightly behind their trays of drinks.†   (source)
  • The priests of Apollo thus functioned more or less as diplomats, or advisers.†   (source)
  • Since the weather was going to be bad I was sure Uncle Willie would agree, in fact, encourage, me to close early (save electricity) and join the family in Momma's bedroom, which functioned as our sitting room.†   (source)
  • He wanted a medical system that functioned in his absence.†   (source)
  • The arrangement functioned perfectly.†   (source)
  • But now it specialized in jazz, and functioned sometimes as a showcase for younger but not entirely untried or unknown talents or personalities.†   (source)
  • FIVE Harmonious Space The Republic Hotel was near the exact spot where the railroad track, which at one time functioned as a kind of artery, punctured Tucson's old, creaky chest cavity and prepared to enter the complicated auricles and ventricles of the railroad station.†   (source)
  • Before sliding down he inspected the hatch seat, pulling it shut with a chain and making sure the automatic mechanism functioned properly.†   (source)
  • The pump system functioned, however, and could suck up five hundred milliliters of water in twenty seconds.†   (source)
  • Mike Strank functioned on many levels.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, Mary and I functioned as a caretaking unit.†   (source)
  • He introduced a voucher system, which at first functioned as a form of credit, but gradually became a substitute for legal tender.†   (source)
  • Yossarian shook his head and explained that deja vu was just a momentary infinitesimal lag in the operation of two coactive sensory nerve centers that commonly functioned simultaneously.†   (source)
  • She looked past me, back to my friends, or at least, the people who had historically functioned that way.†   (source)
  • Shiva's liver functioned beautifully in me year after year.†   (source)
  • We were in very little danger of starving—even in summer here, the outdoors effectively functioned as a huge freezer, and the unheated storage building held plenty of provisions.†   (source)
  • He had been employed at the beginning, before any records were kept, and actually functioned as an engineer though he drew a janitor's pay.†   (source)
  • Washington, too, had spent long sessions at Mount Vernon (though never for seven months), and with Philadelphia hit by yellow fever every summer and fall, the government barely functioned there for several months.†   (source)
  • Within a day or two, I found a way to trudge once again through my work, though my hands functioned separate from mymind, and I could not tell you a single task I did during that fortnight, as the days and nights slid by.†   (source)
  • And it still functioned?†   (source)
  • Since those days, it has functioned in various capacities for classes and teams, as well as pickup basketball games for would-be Gator basket-bailers of any age.†   (source)
  • He'd fashioned the spyglass from his memory of the histories, using a resin from the pine trees, and although it hardly functioned as he suspected it should, it did give him a slight advantage over the naked eye.†   (source)
  • It kept the world from storming the gates, from letting us make decisions on our own, from meeting those humans who functioned in the normal civilized world with its own customs of survival.†   (source)
  • These were purposes and motives that, for obvious reasons, functioned much more powerfully for Confederate than for Union soldiers.†   (source)
  • How has it functioned in reality?†   (source)
  • Longstreet functioned mechanically, placing his troops in a defensive line.†   (source)
  • The man from Medusa ran faster, the pain forgotten, concentrating only on the assassin in the part of his mind that still functioned.†   (source)
  • The effect had been studied and, to the sometimes amusement of males, it turned out that the "heat" effect was functionally identical to male arousal.†   (source)
  • The good old U.S. government still functioned.†   (source)
  • As Rubenstein concludes: "The camps were thus far more of a permanent threat to the human future than they would have been had they functioned solely as an exercise in mass killing.†   (source)
  • First of all, both male and female must be practically, that is to say, functionally protected from their own weakness by the total culture--at least insofar as possible.†   (source)
  • His feet were completely dead now, his knees worked like old hinges, his kidneys functioned when they would, but his heart persisted doggedly to beat.†   (source)
  • Can Hermes function for five hundred and thirty-three days beyond the scheduled mission end?   (source)
    function = work
  • Assume that the nam-shub of Enki really functioned as a virus.   (source)
    functioned = worked or operated
  • Those of Dark functioned oppositely …. bringing destruction and chaos.   (source)
  • The air conditioning was back on in the control room, and the computer was functioning properly.   (source)
    functioning = working
  • Can't kiss anyone, can't drive a car, can't function in the actual sensate populated world.   (source)
    function = work or operate (do the things that need to be done in life)
  • It was when all the rules by which the traditional economy had functioned were broken and remade.   (source)
    functioned = worked or operated
  • Sure, I can function on the same level as everybody else, I can hold myself down, but it isn't me.   (source)
    function = carry on (continue to do things)
  • The Hab's main computer is also functioning without any problems.   (source)
    functioning = working
  • And nam-shubs had the power to alter the functioning of the brain and of the body.   (source)
    functioning = way of working
  • A steel-gray filing cabinet stood in the corner, and her desk and chair were typically functional.   (source)
    functional = useful for their purpose
  • They can be highly intelligent and functional, but they lack judgment.   (source)
    functional = capable of working
  • Clarkebury functioned more like a military school than a teacher training college.   (source)
    functioned = worked or operated
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  • It's a function celebrating gay rights.
  • She attends a lot of school functions.
    functions = social events or ceremonies
  • There weren't a lot of people who were equipped to babysit for Auggie, so Mom and Dad brought him to all my class plays and concerts and recitals, all the school functions, the bake sales and the book fairs.   (source)
    functions = social events
  • These functions were by invitation only.   (source)
  • I have just been notified that there is to be a private function in the Yellow Room, after all.   (source)
    function = event
  • I wanted to meet you all and see my sister again, but I hate it when these things turn into state functions.   (source)
    functions = social events that are a duty
  • She stayed at the function for all of one hour, then bolted.   (source)
    function = social event
  • A former gymnast, rock climber, and fitness instructor, Bono hardly resembled a run-of-the mill Republican when she arrived in Washington at the age of thirty-seven, especially when she displayed her honed physique in an evening gown at official functions.   (source)
    functions = social events
  • Look at me: the life of every social function in Paris.   (source)
    function = social event
  • She was down, low down-sleeping a lot, missing work, even missing church functions.   (source)
    functions = events
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  • He had seventeen nieces and nephews, and though he sometimes felt out of place at family functions, since he was a bachelor again in a family of happily married people, his brothers were respectful enough not to probe the reasons behind the divorce.   (source)
  • It was a half-page torn out of The Times of about ten years earlier — the top half of the page, so that it included the date — and it contained a photograph of the delegates at some Party function in New York.   (source)
    function = event
  • "It reminds me of a lower-caste Community Sing," she told Bernard. But a little later it was reminding her a good deal less of that innocuous function.   (source)
    function = social event or ceremony
  • It was a costume ball — such functions mostly were, because people at that time liked costumes.   (source)
    functions = social events
  • In retrospect, and having now seen the child in question at various school functions and in the class pictures, I think it may have been too much to ask of our children to be able to process all that.   (source)
  • It was not particularly surprising for the Count to find a giant at the door of a private function in the Metropol; what was surprising was how the dining room had been arranged within.   (source)
    function = event
  • She continued to haul me around from function to function — Junior League meetings, political bun-fests, committees for this and that — and to park me on chairs and in corners, while she did the necessary socializing.   (source)
  • Certainly, he had served them at formal functions in the Red and Yellow Rooms, but he had also served them at the more intimate and less guarded tables of the Boyarsky when they had dined with wives or mistresses, friends or enemies, patrons or proteges.   (source)
    functions = events
  • For fourteen years, their relatives in Minnesota had written of family functions the African Mortensons had to miss and sent newspaper clippings about the Minnesota Twins, which Greg preserved in his room and reread at night, artifacts from an exotic culture he hoped to understand.   (source)
  • It was another copy of the photograph of Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford at the party function in New York, which he had chanced upon eleven years ago and promptly destroyed.   (source)
    function = event
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  • Expertise is largely a function of hours spent on task.
  • If consequences resulted from her behaving differently, then they too were functions of life's fundamental core.   (source)
    functions = results
  • They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things.   (source)
    function = result
  • We assume that being good at things like calculus and algebra is a simple function of how smart someone is.   (source)
  • Like the symbolic imagination, this is a function of being able to distance oneself from the story, to look beyond the purely affective level of plot, drama, characters.   (source)
  • What they carried was partly a function of rank, partly of field specialty.   (source)
  • He's still talking -- his voice sounds whistly and gaseous, like a pipe organ gone bad, because of the changes in his skull-but it's just a brainstem function, just a twitch in the vocal cords.   (source)
  • A counselor friend of Mom's once said that's merely a function of adolescence—that teenagers are into separating from our parents and others in authority in order to establish our independence.   (source)
  • The fact that he didn't win in Macon wasn't a reflection of how well he rode, but rather a function of the quality of the bulls.   (source)
  • This made the opportunity to study a function of how much money one had.   (source)
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  • Because we cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.   (source)
  • Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.   (source)
  • On the display screen, he saw what he wanted: growth of Andromeda as a function of pH, of acidity-alkalinity.   (source)
    function = saying the amount of something is determined by the amount of something else
  • Coincidence accounted for nearly everything else and was simply a function of mathematical probability.   (source)
    function = result
  • How good people's decisions are under the fast-moving, high-stress conditions of rapid cognition is a function of training and rules and rehearsal.   (source)
  • It is possible that both the increased intelligence and the erratic behavior at this level were created by the original surgery, instead of one being a function of the other.   (source)
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  • The program has a built-in function that does that with a single user request.
  • The keyboard had a row of function keys at the top, just like a regular PC keyboard, and the monitor was big and in color.   (source)
    function = TO tell a computer to perform specific tasks
  • There should be a search function.   (source)
    function = computer code that performs a specific task
  • I spent the whole first week of nav school frowning at a desk in front of a Toughbook laptop computer, learning the computer's functions, how to hook up to a GPS and manipulate the satellite imagery and maps.   (source)
    functions = computer code modules each of which perform a specific task
  • Most databases have a search function built in—libraries, museums, universities, governments.   (source)
    function = computer code that performs a specific task
  • He adds components and functions and sits before a spreading mass of compatible hardware.   (source)
    functions = computer code that performs specific tasks
  • Mortenson was amazed by the computer's cut and paste and copy functions.   (source)
    functions = computer code capabilities
  • It's got a graphing function and everything.   (source)
    function = computer code that performs a specific task
  • ...you could always argue that no matter how elaborate the program, it was basically an extension of the programmer's will and the operations of causal machines merely represented functions of intelligence, rather than intelligence in its own right backed by a will of its own.   (source)
    functions = computer code modules each of which perform a specific task
  • ...his Texas Instruments TI-82, with graphing function;   (source)
    function = computer code that performs specific tasks
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  • It had obviously acquired a great number of functions, but was it capable of having real feelings?   (source)
    functions = computer code modules each of which perform a specific task
  • His personal computer had a multimedia function that allowed him to look at a copy of the famous videotape showing a driver being shot by the Texas Highway Killer.   (source)
    function = computer code that performs a specific task
  • Everything in your computer, the plastic, silicon and mylar, every logical operation and processing function, the memory, the hardware, the software, the ones and zeroes, the triads inside the pixels that form the on-screen image—it all culminates here.   (source)
    function = computer code that performs specific tasks
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  • Since there is less oxygen at high altitudes, to know how much oxygen is available at the top of any mountain, you will need a function that converts altitude to available oxygen.
  • This explanation posits that external observation leads to the collapse of the quantum wave function.   (source)
    function = mathematical expression that describe a relationship between variables
  • He had described generally how scientists arrive at facts and theories but now he penetrated narrowly into his own personal experience with the mathematical functions that established his early fame.   (source)
    functions = a mathematical expression that describes a relationship between variables
  • Surveying the room, Cedric decides to display his mastery and answers a question about inverse trigonometric functions.   (source)
    functions = mathematical expressions--each of which describe a relationship between variables
  • The Roche limit is usually expressed as a function of the densities of the bodies and the equatorial radius of the larger body.   (source)
    function = mathematical expression that describe a relationship between variables
  • He flips to question four, his hand sweaty and cramping, and reads it with astonishment: "Find the 2nd degree Taylor polynomial and the remainder at A = 0 for the function f(x) = 3(x + 1)."   (source)
  • "Well, L'Hopital's rule, I mean I already had that," says Cedric about a rule to define the limit of functions, which he worked on at MIT.   (source)
    functions = mathematical expressions--each of which describe a relationship between variables
  • He reels off ten lines of tangent, sine, and cosine functions, an intricate equation springing effortlessly from his memory, and arrives at a proof.   (source)
  • Finally, he begins to write: "The part that most interested me was finding the identity of the trigonometric functions."   (source)
  • The next two, though, are ticklish-one dealing with various series equations and whether their functions would converge or diverge; on the other, he needs to locate the power series in two functions.   (source)
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  • He moves easily through the algebraic functions on the next few questions, hunched close to his paper, writing quickly and neatly, the pencil's eraser end wiggling near his ear.   (source)
  • He opens his eyes and bends forward, his pencil racing through a line of f(x) functions, until the clenched muscle of his jaw line loosens to make way for an admiring smile.   (source)
  • He spends the day refiguring the problems from memory, racing through functions and equations, looking for his errors and convincing himself that he made several large blunders.   (source)
  • As Berman scribbles ahead toward logarithmic functions, Cedric wonders if he's wrong to be so proud, and his mind slips back to something Long had said a few weeks ago in a Sunday sermon about the sin of pride, one of Bishop's favorite subjects.   (source)
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  • Magic would function in some zones and not in others.†   (source)
  • My legs instantly became functional again.†   (source)
  • "You've got it easy—you have all your physical functions working properly.†   (source)
  • Girard supervised the transformation of Bush Hill into a safe, functioning fever hospital.†   (source)
  • Christ as Messiah was critical to the functioning of Church and state.†   (source)
  • Over the years, she became less functional and more mentally disabled.†   (source)
  • We have to check that your wands are fully functional, no problems, you know, as they're your most important tools in the tasks ahead," said Bagman.†   (source)
  • A SMALL SIGN' IN the hotel lobby announced that the Washington Room was taken that night by a private function, although there was no information as to what kind of function this might be.†   (source)
  • Before Mammy and Babi had died and her life turned upside down, Laila never would have believed that a human body could withstand this much beating, this viciously, this regularly, and keep functioning.†   (source)
  • By the time he woke up, his body so stiff it felt like glue had dried in his veins and muscles, all the machinery in his ears and head was back to fully functional.†   (source)
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  • It could be oddly dispiriting, the blank refusal of humankind to even attempt to function responsibly.†   (source)
  • Luke thought he was repeating everything he said two or three times, but that was okay, because Luke's brain was functioning so slowly, he needed the extra help.†   (source)
  • And it requires his strict mental guidance for its proper function.†   (source)
  • He goes into shock and can't function for days."†   (source)
  • The horror of the room, he would later say, sucked all other functions out of him.†   (source)
  • I don't get invited to cocktail parties or baby showers anymore, or any functions where Hilly will be there.†   (source)
  • A toothbrush, a beat-up sofa bed, a lamp I found in a trash bin, shaped like a palm tree but perfectly functional, and a cardboard carton to set it upon, a hot-water kettle, a box of teabags in the refrigerator, two bath towels from a J. C. Penney white sale, a box of bath-oil beads.†   (source)
  • One hundred and nine seconds left before guns are functional again.†   (source)
  • It never occurred to me that there might have been a perfectly clean and functioning men's room elsewhere in the airport; maybe there was.†   (source)
  • ALL Saturday Du shuts himself in his room, reshuffling circuits, combining new functions.†   (source)
  • Telegraph lines are not functioning.†   (source)
  • It seemed as if what the old king had called "beginner's luck" were no longer functioning.†   (source)
  • Willow had a high-functioning brain.†   (source)
  • "If you want to be in a really functional room," I began with false heartiness, "you ought to spend your time in the bathroom then."†   (source)
  • Cecilia's grandfather, who grew up over an ironmonger's shop and made the family fortune with a series of patents on padlocks, bolts, latches and hasps, had imposed on the new house his taste for all things solid, secure and functional.†   (source)
  • He's forgotten about the CB function.†   (source)
  • Something small but functional.†   (source)
  • Everything's sleek and pristine and perfectly functional.†   (source)
  • I try to think of Cantonese words I can say to her, stuff I learned from friends in Chinatown, but all I can think of are swear words, terms for bodily functions, and short phrases like "tastes good," "tastes like garbage," and "she's really ugly.†   (source)
  • Maven's dress uniform is gone, replaced by casual clothes built for form and function.†   (source)
  • The routines were strict, the food was awful, and the other residents seemed to function as one mindless organism.†   (source)
  • Functioning and catching up on work—in as public and distracting a place as he could think of.†   (source)
  • Now that I can, I want to be there for them in all the ways I couldn't before—watch them play ball and help out with school functions—but I can't without risking someone will recognize me and connect me with them.†   (source)
  • Once the small matter of my temporary madness had been cleared up, Dr. Golan's function seemed mainly to consist of writing prescriptions.†   (source)
  • "That's because you have eight functioning brain cells."†   (source)
  • It was my function to wash the dishes.†   (source)
  • The Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe, although I have no idea what the function of either actually is.†   (source)
  • With the inability to communicate overcome, she's functioning again.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure how a direct comm would function in an android, especially one that wasn't equipped for it in the first place.†   (source)
  • Maybe I have a bottle of serum that will restore your friend's natural physical functions."†   (source)
  • Their crime was conducting unthinkable research on Jews without consent—sewing siblings together to create Siamese twins, dissecting people alive to study organ function.†   (source)
  • Ask what else of me you will that I may function.†   (source)
  • Like a gun, like the Little Doctor, functioning perfectly but not knowing what you were aimed at.†   (source)
  • It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me —jumping at pigeons beating from the sidewalk, afflicted with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder practically to the point of spasticity and cerebral palsy—pills were the key to being not only competent, but high-functioning.†   (source)
  • My cognitive functions, which had been marginal before, instantly went into a nose dive.†   (source)
  • At the time one out of every hundred patients suffered a fatal loss of brain function after the procedure.†   (source)
  • His cerebral functions had deserted him.†   (source)
  • Evidently my function in life is to strike fear into the hearts of those who love me.†   (source)
  • Functions of state?†   (source)
  • If precognitive trances are possible, they're probably functions of the subconscious mind.†   (source)
  • You can have Asperger's and still function….†   (source)
  • My dazed mind began to function.†   (source)
  • It's the reality-testing function," says the doctor.†   (source)
  • When they returned to the room, Eragon was able to function somewhat better.†   (source)
  • We thought we'd function in Wilmington as we had in New York, catching subways and buses and living off public transportation and the groove of the city.†   (source)
  • We hardly have a functional hospital in our borders, or a passable road outside Kinshasa.†   (source)
  • But even with a fully functioning transmitter, I don't think we'd be able to send a signal very far from down here."†   (source)
  • My limbs still ache with exhaustion, but enough strength has returned so that I'm able to function.†   (source)
  • I tapped in the translator function.†   (source)
  • No matter how down I may be, and sometimes I get very down indeed, a hug from Olivia or Adam completely restores me to the level of functioning, if nothing else.†   (source)
  • The only thing that happened is that the market was allowed to function.†   (source)
  • They just sat staring at their plates, unable to function normally.†   (source)
  • The tavern had served three functions: saloon, inn, and post office.†   (source)
  • You don't attend squad functions.†   (source)
  • Police found a gas jet with no apparent function other than to admit gas into the vault.†   (source)
  • "It's functional," Mae said.†   (source)
  • T: But isn't that part of my function?†   (source)
  • Explain to the newcomers, Fraulein, the function of the bunkers.†   (source)
  • He ran his finger down the functions in the back.†   (source)
  • "I am merely assessing how well Paolo's arms are functioning after surgery."†   (source)
  • Workers' comp was meant to function much like no-fault insurance.†   (source)
  • They're running tests to see how her lungs are functioning and whether she can be weaned off the ventilator.†   (source)
  • We manage to function.†   (source)
  • Something in their faces suggested that they were off to fight on their own initiative, so to speak, and had long since ceased to be part of such a precise, perfectly functioning machine as the army.†   (source)
  • The lake and campground they were headed for was only a few miles beyond Joseph, and after finding their site they all pitched in and had everything set up in short order—perhaps not exactly the way Nan would have preferred, but functional nonetheless.†   (source)
  • We want to see if you can help the Government improve function and efficiency.†   (source)
  • Most importantly, mine was the Alar and the intricate sygaldry that turned the individual pieces into a functioning handheld sympathy lamp.†   (source)
  • Schizophrenia is a disorder in which you don't seem to be able to function as well as you can.†   (source)
  • "You all have functional brains, last time I checked," I say.†   (source)
  • This was another thing I learned about Carl from his days in The Bar—that he was a functioning but serious alcoholic.†   (source)
  • It seemed antiquated to him, with many useless or duplicated functions that had been essential in other stages of the human race but were not in ours.†   (source)
  • The lights seemed to be functioning normally, and as she hurried toward Luke's flat, Glass didn't see any guards.†   (source)
  • Perform one of your various functions.†   (source)
  • That means that he will be highly functional.†   (source)
  • I could function.†   (source)
  • The world can function without it, but life would be so dull as to be hardly worth living.†   (source)
  • But when I look back, the sex at the Cottages seems a bit functional.†   (source)
  • In Freud's terms, we develop an ego which has this regulative function.†   (source)
  • One previously private function they now had to perform in public was the emptying of their bowels, for without piped water the toilets in Saeed and Nadia's building no longer worked.†   (source)
  • Clearly they would both be willing to come—in Nobu's case because the Baron was an investor in Iwamura Electric, though I didn't know it at the time; and in Dr. Crab's case because …. well, because the Doctor considered himself something of an aristocrat, even though he probably had only one obscure ancestor with any aristocratic blood, and would regard it as his duty to attend any function the Baron invited him to.†   (source)
  • It's giving us time to get used to each other, to learn how to function as a group."†   (source)
  • Now that Papa had become rich, he got invited to a lot of official parties and functions.†   (source)
  • Time seemed to function strangely here.†   (source)
  • "Paul, your liver functions are so high the machine couldn't do them.†   (source)
  • You had to kill yourself, or he had to kill you to get you functioning as a separate entity.†   (source)
  • I'm not functioning anymore.†   (source)
  • By contrast, her bodily functions seek positive awakening.†   (source)
  • Prognosis: Correspondence between you and your sister cannot serve anything but a purely social function.†   (source)
  • They can't function in school, or are subjected to discipline there.†   (source)
  • I think she's functioning even if her hands are still shaking.†   (source)
  • He had no function, they did: they pulled rank on him, they closed ranks against him.†   (source)
  • He may recover some function over time, but it will be minimal at best.†   (source)
  • Funny thing, your brain, how it always functions on one level or another.†   (source)
  • He worked on the railroad thirty years; now he's wore clean out but still's functioning on the memory.†   (source)
  • The kidneys become jammed with blood clots and dead cells, and cease functioning.†   (source)
  • Her Arabic and functional French helped her communicate with kids from the Middle East and Sudan, as well as the Congo and Burundi.†   (source)
  • Caroline said she's quite high-functioning, whatever that means.†   (source)
  • He's still functioning pretty well.†   (source)
  • Those of us with functioning brains know that it is not cool to be used like that.†   (source)
  • It's a function of the way humans are constructed.†   (source)
  • Some spent so long outside of their own heads that they couldn't function right when they finally had to return their own.†   (source)
  • Mandy Meacham regarded Johnnie's preparation for the function with some disfavour.†   (source)
  • And then I just stopped functioning.†   (source)
  • It was John Brown who apparently performed many of the most dramatic and dangerous episodes portrayed in The Klan Unmasked—physically attending Klan meetings and other functions in Atlanta—but since Stetson Kennedy was the man who later wrote the book, he rendered Brown's actions as his own.†   (source)
  • My fellow prisoners grabbed all the functional seats.†   (source)
  • He only seemed concerned that the hands would be functional, and Pol reassured him.†   (source)
  • Sooner or later our young officers must learn to function on their own.†   (source)
  • Such violence often functions to keep women down.†   (source)
  • Function followed form.†   (source)
  • When you hit a 10, you can't function anymore.†   (source)
  • Every couple of hours, I'd involuntarily wake up and find myself going to the living room to watch my grandmother breathe and make sure the machine was functioning correctly.†   (source)
  • Little function.†   (source)
  • Van Hooser chose to have the leg amputated so he might function at the level he wanted and continue his career.†   (source)
  • She prays that his body parts are normal and functional.†   (source)
  • It took a lot of work to make something that was small and highly functional.†   (source)
  • Freddie's janitor duties at the department store were supplemented by his function as a messenger and package deliverer.†   (source)
  • On the upside, her liver and kidneys are still functioning normally.†   (source)
  • "And we'd go to church functions.†   (source)
  • Usually you get all flowery and descriptive talking about the curves of the wood and the symmetry of the lines and the marriage of form and function.†   (source)
  • I have a basic functional knowledge of several languages, but know almost nothing of the rest of them.†   (source)
  • No food that is distasteful must be eaten and there is neither praise nor blame for the body's natural functions.†   (source)
  • It's an atheistic, practical, functional doctrine.†   (source)
  • The chaplain felt most deceitful presiding at funerals, and it would not have astonished him to learn that the apparition in the tree that day was a manifestation of the Almighty's censure for the blasphemy and pride inherent in his function.†   (source)
  • None of us was functioning clearly.†   (source)
  • Decrease in intellectual functioning for a day or two.†   (source)
  • It looks like Mr. Tod has volunteered to offer an explanation on the function of g-g-g-gonads.†   (source)
  • The second function is intimidatory.†   (source)
  • After so many torturous days of cheap, functional food, this is like going to heaven.†   (source)
  • Kidney function is borderline.†   (source)
  • Functional enough, I suppose.†   (source)
  • Manya took care of me during the first nightmarish days of blind panic when my mind collapsed and would not function.†   (source)
  • It usually rendered the patient drowsy, sluggish, dizzy, often nauseous, and unable to carry out many routine functions.†   (source)
  • Baltazar Charles and his family, like the Villarreals, lived in a small house on an unpaved street with no lights and no running water or sewage, the latter functions being relegated to a hole in the ground behind the house.†   (source)
  • I can function with a high degree of chaos.†   (source)
  • You're not functioning right, Ship!"†   (source)
  • He seemed to possess some kind of authority in the Brotherhood, but his exact function was unclear.†   (source)
  • It has a dual function, both to follow old satellites known to be in orbit and to track new ones.†   (source)
  • "I can't seem to function, to think, or to do.†   (source)
  • The commander in chief only came in from 2 P.M. to 4 P.M. They had only one functioning aircraft, and while none of the boats in the Haitian navy could run, one of them could float.†   (source)
  • Suffice it to say it cannot be tapped and still function.†   (source)
  • The constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the oldest functioning written constitution in the world.†   (source)
  • I scrambled to my feet and stood between him and the crumpled girl, who was trying to raise herself but falling back, again and again, as her limbs refused to function.†   (source)
  • They were of a pale, functional gray cotton.†   (source)
  • Instead of answering her, he said, "I don't function alone.†   (source)
  • You think I'd be this functional if he weren't alive?†   (source)
  • Form is function.†   (source)
  • With a number of four-by-four posts, we built what turned out to be a pretty sturdy and functional structure, and then we put a pitching machine in it.†   (source)
  • Not physically, of course, but … Well, how does a soul function once it's been split in half and is then reunited?†   (source)
  • Doctors had given her pills so she could continue to function, even though her father was broken and her mother was dead.†   (source)
  • The baby's underdeveloped young lungs aren't functioning properly.†   (source)
  • Someone good enough to make them functional again.†   (source)
  • It's functioning?†   (source)
  • Melissa was a lot more functional here in the blue time, but Rex still hovered.†   (source)
  • Looking it up, we found that Fowler's Modern English Usage says the word gerundive has "no proper function in English grammar," but the Random House Unabridged Dictionary finds one: a gerund is a noun derived from a verb form—for instance, walking, as in walking is good for you.†   (source)
  • Even a tear-veiled Eye preserves its function of sight.†   (source)
  • This was their first time at a public function since he took sick.†   (source)
  • My legs would not function.†   (source)
  • He didn't really know popular music, and his clothes were, well, functional.†   (source)
  • It's as if her body cannot control the function.†   (source)
  • "These ignorant bush people would be introduced to God and the vestiges of civilization, and turned into functional productive members of society," said one British diplomat.†   (source)
  • I guess Stew wanted her to look more distinguished or something at his functions.†   (source)
  • About the only thing they willingly let me do is to go to our church's high school youth group functions—and, man, let me tell you, there are some kids in there who are pretty bad news.†   (source)
  • It won't function with the materials of religion.†   (source)
  • He acquired a Model B Ford pickup with an interlaced "WCC" painted on both doors above a telephone number—no mention of the company's full name or its function, as if everyone who counted surely must know, by now.†   (source)
  • I had no clear sense of what ranks and functions there were aboard this ship.†   (source)
  • And they have a function that is not seen in the other States.†   (source)
  • It's one of the few, few afternoons when he doesn't have some kind of function or practice or job or something.†   (source)
  • His mind was beginning to function.†   (source)
  • Then I took Caroline's cell phone out of my pocket, turned it on, set the block function, and dialed the number I'd memorized earlier in the day.†   (source)
  • Without his wheelchair, he was just a little guy in a suit, and in that moment as fear and lack of courage drained his face, he looked as insignificant as I always felt at these functions.†   (source)
  • I'm sure someone else in the A&E board meeting probably then asked, "Bob, where do we find a functional family in America?"†   (source)
  • I showed him the text function.†   (source)
  • Function controls design.†   (source)
  • "His left lung has stopped functioning because it's filled with air and blood.†   (source)
  • The idea, really, is that sooner or later, completely on its own, the prayer moves from the lips and the head down to a center in the heart and becomes an automatic function in the person, right along with the heartbeat.†   (source)
  • Functional?†   (source)
  • While not absolutely conclusive as far as wolves were concerned, evidence that my metabolic functions remained unimpaired under a mouse regimen would strongly indicate that wolves, too, could survive and function normally on the same diet.†   (source)
  • Twice the height of a tall man, the hedgerows served the function that fences serve in richer countries: They held some things in and other things out.†   (source)
  • I wish instead to suggest that images and stories of the kind I am invoking here do function as bearers of value.†   (source)
  • All was new, modern, and functional.†   (source)
  • It is possible to go places and to function even when you are frightened.†   (source)
  • Only the vital industries continued to function.†   (source)
  • He seems to have been highly unstable, apt at any time to appear at a public function and begin a speech.†   (source)
  • At this juncture, then, Auschwitz stands revealed in its dual function: as a depot for mass murder but also a vast enclave dedicated to the practice of slavery.†   (source)
  • The only thing that he did as Deputy Mayor was to reduce the Shirriffs to their proper functions and numbers.†   (source)
  • He carried out his functions like a sleepwalker, ignored whole rows of garbage cans.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND In other words, these folks were conceived and brought forth through the normal biological function known as sex.†   (source)
  • One time, when I did so, my tear glands began to function again.†   (source)
  • There must have been some function she had been at.†   (source)
  • Her brain seemed to have stopped thinking altogether and to be about some other function that it was not very good at.†   (source)
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