All 10 Uses
function
in
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
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- They can be highly intelligent and functional, but they lack judgment.
Chpt 2 *functional = capable of working
- 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.
Chpt 4 *function = result
- This new notion of the adaptive unconscious is thought of, instead, as a kind of giant computer that quickly and quietly processes a lot of the data we need in order to keep functioning as human beings.†
Chpt Intr.
- Gottman has found, in fact, that the presence of contempt in a marriage can even predict such things as how many colds a husband or a wife gets; in other words, having someone you love express contempt toward you is so stressful that it begins to affect the functioning of your immune system.†
Chpt 1
- Cook County's doctors, similarly, function as well as they do in the day-to-day rush of the ER because Lee Goldman sat down at his computer and over the course of many months painstakingly evaluated every possible piece of information that he could.†
Chpt 4
- "I remember one professor at Stanford who confirmed the concept and its function but said he wanted to be invited back when we got to an 'aesthetically refined prototype,' " Dowell remembers.†
Chpt 5 *
- One of Klin's colleagues at Yale, Robert T. Schultz, once did an experiment with what is called an FMRI (functional magnetic resonance imagery), a highly sophisticated brain scanner that shows where the blood is flowing in the brain at any given time—and hence, which part of the brain is in use.†
Chpt 6
- Grossman says that everyone should practice dialing 911 for this very reason, because he has heard of too many situations where, in an emergency, people pick up the phone and cannot perform this most basic of functions.†
Chpt 6
- And then you have to continue to function.†
Chpt 6
- Then the second or third time, it's 120, and then it's 110, and they can function.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(function as in: Its main function is to...) purpose, job, or natural activity
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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: I'm attending a function tonight) a social event or ceremony -- especially one attended for work or out of a sense of duty
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(function as in: oxygen is a function of altitude) saying one results from another; or saying that the amount of one thing is dependent upon the value of another.If x is a function of y, then x results from y; or the amount of x can be calculated based on the amount of y.
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(function as in: Amazon's new search function) computer code that performs a specific task
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(function as in: a mathematical function) a formula or mathematical expression that describes a relationship between variables
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) For more specialized meanings in math and chemistry, see a comprehensive dictionary.