function

Forms

1.What something does or is used for.
- Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.
2.A professional or official position.
3.An official or social occasion.
- Our hotel is hosting a function for all the warehouse workers on the night of April 18.
4.Something which is dependent on or stems from another thing; a result or concomitant.
- Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.

1.To have a function.
2.To carry out a function; to be in action.
- Although the laying workers functioned in a queenlike manner, they were unable to suppress ovarian development as effectively as the queen.

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Etymology tree

Old French fonction

Middle French functionbor.

English function