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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

... to know that his agent was at least a genuine living being. For a moment he had fancied something utterly repellent to him. Suppose this Sanusian were not any form of natural creature at all, but some sort of supermachine, capable of functioning like an organism? The thought made the engineer shudder ...

— The Devolutionist and The Emancipatrix • Homer Eon Flint

... normality of the machine whose functioning depended upon its parts! How easily even the most component of those parts could be replaced! The rows of stenographers, in her but two weeks' absence, new faces among them, outlined against windows of space and East River. The hinged little mahogany gates swinging to ...

— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst

... like of which I have never seen or heard. From my hasty examination I gathered that the ship operated by both a rocket effect (an early type of propulsion which was abandoned as ineffective) and some form of attraction-repulsion apparatus, evidently functioning through the reddish, pitted disks I had observed around the nose of the ship. The lettering upon the control panels and the instruments, while nearly obliterated, was unmistakably in the same language in ...

— The God in the Box • Sewell Peaslee Wright

... forced to realize that the general form and external appearance of the human body depends, to a large extent, upon the functioning, during the early developmental period, of the endocrine glands. Our stature, the kinds of faces we have, the length of our arms and legs, the shape of the pelvis, the color and consistency of the integument, the quantity and ...

— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.

... aim of education, it is to be borne in mind by the educator that this implies more than a passive possession by the individual of a certain moral sentiment. Man is truly moral only when his moral character is functioning in goodness, or in right action. This is equivalent to declaring that the moral man must be individually efficient in action, and must likewise control his action from a regard for the rights of others. There is always ...

— Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education • Ontario Ministry of Education

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