function

func|tion1 [ `fʌŋkʃən ] noun ***

1. ) count or uncount the job that something is designed to do:

The function of advertising is to create a unique image for your company.

perform a function: All the backup systems performed their function flawlessly.

a ) count someone's job or particular responsibility:

a manager's supervisory functions

b ) count or uncount something that happens in your body or something that a part of you body does:

He has no muscle function in his upper arms.

Free radicals have the ability to disrupt bodily functions.

c ) count COMPUTING the purpose of a computer program or piece of computer equipment:

accounting/spreadsheet functions

d ) count COMPUTING a single basic operation performed by a computer

2. ) count a social event such as a party, especially one for a large number of people:

I sometimes attend official functions with my wife.

a function of something

1. ) the result of a change in something:

Decreased gas mileage is largely a function of today's bigger engines.

2. ) TECHNICAL in mathematics, if one quantity is a function of another, it changes according to how the second quantity changes

function

func|tion 2 [ `fʌŋkʃən ] verb intransitive **

1. ) to work or operate in the correct way:

His new kidney began functioning immediately.

a functioning communications system

a ) to work or operate in a particular way:

We need to get this department functioning efficiently.

2. ) to do all the things that you normally do:

Some patients cannot function without their drugs.

3. ) function as to operate in the same way as something else:

a phrase that functions as an adverb