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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

... determined by racial preparation. We know, it is true, but little of the physiological details of what takes place in the central nervous system; but in broad outline the nature of the organic mechanism and the manner of its functioning may at least be provisionally conjectured in the present state of physiological knowledge. Similarly in the case of the pecking of newly-hatched chicks; there is a visual presentation, there is probably a cooeperating ...

— Evolution in Modern Thought • Ernst Haeckel

... public speaker is of the widest fame, while comparatively few, beyond those of her most trusted Officers, are brought into admiring touch with her brilliant executive powers. All these, however, unite in most unstinted praise and declare that functioning in this sphere, the Commander even excels her platform triumphs. But one must know her well and watch her every day to understand her depth of insight into character, her wideness of vision, her skill of making adverse circumstances ...

— The War Romance of the Salvation Army • Evangeline Booth and Grace Livingston Hill

... functionally distinct 'selves' it comports and carries has to be left entirely problematic. It may be polytheistically or it may be monotheistically conceived of. Fechner, with his distinct earth-soul functioning as our guardian angel, seems to me clearly polytheistic; but the word 'polytheism' usually gives offence, so perhaps it is better not to use it. Only one thing is certain, and that is the result of our criticism of ...

— A Pluralistic Universe - Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the - Present Situation in Philosophy • William James

... expensive and difficult-to-build items Maulbow had brought out from the Hub. Beside them stood the machine, squat and ponderous. In the vague light, it looked misshaped and discolored. A piece of equipment that had taken a bad beating of some kind. But it was functioning. As he stared, intermittent bursts of clicking noises rose from it, like the staccato ...

— The Winds of Time • James H. Schmitz

... there are phases of this case which I do not understand. I predict nothing with certainty. But I very much fear that if your father falls into a complete slumber he will never waken from it. Once let his brain cease functioning and I fear that ...

— The Night Horseman • Max Brand

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