All 3 Uses of
function
in
As I Lay Dying
- I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind and that of the minds of the ones who suffer the bereavement.†
Chpt 11
- Yet the motion of the saw has not faltered, as though it and the arm functioned in a tranquil conviction that rain was an illusion of the mind.†
Chpt 17 *
- He is motionless now, sitting the horse at the function, upright, watching us, no less still than the signboard that lifts its fading capitulation opposite him.†
Chpt 27 *
Definitions:
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(function as in: can't function well without sleep) work or operate -- sometimes to work or operate normally or in a particular way
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(function as in: Its main function is to...) purpose, job, or natural activity