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- ’Faugh!’ said Peg, grubbing, in the discharge of her domestic functions, among a scanty heap of ashes in the rusty grate.
- Although any man who had proved his unfitness for any other occupation in life, was free, without examination or qualification, to open a school anywhere; although preparation for the functions he undertook, was required in the surgeon who assisted to bring a boy into the world, or might one day assist, perhaps, to send him out of it; in the chemist, the attorney, the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker; the whole round of crafts and trades, the schoolmaster excepted; and…
- …supper was over, and the process of digestion proceeding as favourably as, under the influence of complete tranquillity, cheerful conversation, and a moderate allowance of brandy-and-water, most wise men conversant with the anatomy and functions of the human frame will consider that it ought to have proceeded, when the three friends, or as one might say, both in a civil and religious sense, and with proper deference and regard to the holy state of matrimony, the two friends, (Mr and…
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purpose, job, or natural activity
as in: can't function well without sleep
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work or operate -- sometimes to work or operate normally or in a particular way
as in: I'm attending a function tonight
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a social event or ceremony -- especially one attended for work or out of a sense of duty
as in: oxygen is a function of altitude
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saying one results from another; or saying that the amount of one thing is dependent upon the value of another.
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computer code that performs a specific task
as in: a mathematical function
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a formula or mathematical expression that describes a relationship between variables
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