functions

Part of Speech:

All (3) Noun (2) Verb (1)

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capacity, job n.
social occasion n.
perform, work v.

NOUN

capacity, job

Synonyms

STRONGEST

action activity affair behavior business duty exercise objective operation part power purpose responsibility role service situation task work

STRONG

charge concern employment faculty goal mark mission object occupation office post province use utility

WEAK

raison d'être

Antonyms

STRONGEST

entertainment fun idleness inaction inactivity inertia irresponsibility pastime

STRONG

unemployment

NOUN

social occasion

Synonyms

STRONGEST

affair gathering meeting reception

STRONG

celebration do party

WEAK

get-together

VERB

perform, work

Synonyms

STRONGEST

behave operate react serve

STRONG

act cook do go move officialize officiate percolate run take

WEAK

act the part be in action be in commission be in operation be running do duty do one's thing get with it go to town take care of business

Antonyms

STRONG

abstain cease discontinue fail halt idle lose stay stop

WEAK

malfunction

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functions

This blurring of what are diametrically opposite functions is epistemologically perilous and morally repugnant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

This region, called the ventromedial hypothalamus, helps coordinate metabolism, energy balance, and other bodily functions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Executives also were “optimistic” regarding AI’s ability to automate manual tasks and act as a real-time tool for several sales, marketing and finance functions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Because the coating can be applied to medical materials, it could provide a way to introduce several protective functions into products used in healthcare.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

If, as I believe, the urge to make a kind of music is as much a characteristic of biology as our other fundamental functions, there ought to be an explanation for it.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas