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Functioning   /fˈəŋkʃənɪŋ/   Listen
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



... must know the mechanism of 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 safety ...
— The Vitalized School • Francis B. Pearson
... functioning but nothing else was. I was completely paralyzed. My heart had stopped breathing and my lungs had stopped breathing, and I've been told that a healthy man can retain consciousness for maybe a minute or so without a fresh supply of blood ...
— Stop Look and Dig • George O. Smith
... into new and enlarged activities, because no Executive could discharge such a duty except upon the information acquired and recommendations made by this commission. But the plan is feasible, and the proper functioning of the board would give its it better administration of a defined policy than ever can be made possible by tariff ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Warren Harding • Warren Harding
... chilled by experience, and dreams have come to nothing. But now and then she seemed to sense in the factory a gathering impetus of efficient organization, the human gears working smoothly for a time, the whole machine functioning with that beauty of precision which is the dream of ...
— Mary Minds Her Business • George Weston
... communities inured to modern industrial enterprise, as being not quite right in his head. Their estimate is of course more or less true. But such valuations are made without the help of creative inspiration, although the functioning of a product has its creative significance. The creative significance of a product in use, as well as an appreciation of the act of creating, would be evident if modern production of wealth, under the influence of business ...
— Creative Impulse in Industry - A Proposition for Educators • Helen Marot


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