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function n. 1 purpose, aim, use, role or r“le, raison d'ˆtre,
responsibility, mission, charge, concern, business, province,
duty, job, occupation, work, office, task, chore, assignment,
commission, activity: A knife's function is to cut; a guard's
is to stand watch. 2 reception, gathering, affair, party,
dinner, banquet, gala, ceremony, formality, rite, ritual;
occasion, event: We are attending a function at the embassy
tonight.
--v. 3 act, operate, perform, behave, work, go, run: Are you
sure the engine is functioning properly? 4 serve, take the role
or r“le of, act the part of, act as, work as: Dunmow will
function as host in my absence.
functional
adj. 1 utilitarian, useful, serviceable, practical,
practicable, functioning, working; essential, important,
effective: This gear is a functional part, not mere decoration.
2 working, operating, operational, running, going: Is this
telephone functional?
functionary
n. official, commissioner, bureaucrat, office-holder, officer:
She is some sort of functionary at the Ministry of Information.
fund n. 1 supply, stock, reserve, store, pool, cache, reservoir,
repository, mine: Alison is a veritable fund of information
about art. 2 Often, funds. money, (hard) cash, ready money,
assets, means, wealth, resources, wherewithal, savings, capital,
nest egg, endowment, Colloq loot, lucre, pelf, green, bread,
dough, Brit ready, readies, lolly, US bucks, scratch: He has
the funds to buy out his partners. Have you contributed to the
fund for indigent lexicographers?
--v. 3 finance, back, capitalize, stake, support, pay for,
endow, grant, subsidize: The company has funded a number of new
businesses.
fundamental
adj. 1 basic, rudimentary, elementary, primary, main, prime,
first, principal, underlying, cardinal, central, essential,