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Functioning

noun

1.

Process or manner of functioning or operating. Synonyms: operation, performance. "The plane's operation in high winds" , "They compared the cooking performance of each oven" , "The jet's performance conformed to high standards"

adjective

1.

Performing or able to perform its regular function.

Function

verb

1.

Perform as expected when applied. Synonyms: go, operate, run, work. "Does this old car still run well?" , "This old radio doesn't work anymore"

2.

Serve a purpose, role, or function. Synonym: serve. "The female students served as a control group" , "This table would serve very well" , "His freedom served him well" , "The table functions as a desk"

3.

Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function. Synonym: officiate.

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"Functioning" Quotes from Famous Books

... the machine, in every detail, and the articulation of all its parts. He must be able to locate trouble on the instant and be able to apply the remedy. He must be sensitive to every slightest sound that indicates imperfect functioning. This, of course, carries far beyond the mere spelling of the word, but all this is essential to the ...

— The Vitalized School • Francis B. Pearson

... whether it would be well for the Council to draw up general regulations for the composition and functioning of the compulsory arbitration now in question and of that above referred to, and for the conciliation procedure in the Council itself. Such regulations would be made for the Council's own use but would be communicated to the Governments of the ...

— The Geneva Protocol • David Hunter Miller

... been the last surviving effort of scholasticism. Viewed as Science, Civics is that branch of Sociology which deals with Cities—their origin and distribution; their development and structure; their functioning, internal and external, material and psychological; their evolution, individual and associated. Viewed again from the practical side, that of applied science, Civics must develop through experimental endeavour into the more and more effective Art of ...

— Civics: as Applied Sociology • Patrick Geddes

... thought of those vital processes, worn as they were by eighty-one years of continuous functioning, in conflict with unknown forces of which the youngest and strongest system might well be afraid; but in another moment reflected that dreams are only dreams, and that these uncomfortable visions could be, at most, no more than my uncle's reaction to the investigations and expectations which had ...

— The Shunned House • Howard Phillips Lovecraft

... physical betterment. In every case suggested above, there is something better than physical improvement. Without knowing why, or how, the young fellow, after the training suggested, in addition to being a more perfectly functioning animal, a better working flesh-and-blood machine, is several rounds higher up on the ladder of manhood. He looks you in the eye. He gives your hand a regular Stearns grip. He dares to say that his soul is his ...

— On the Firing Line in Education • Adoniram Judson Ladd

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