different between function vs defunct

English

Etymology

From Middle French function, from Old French fonction, from Latin functi? (“performance, execution”), from functus, perfect participle of fungor (“to perform, execute, discharge”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??(k)??n/, /?f??k?n?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f??k??n/, [?f??k???n], [?f??k?n?]
• Hyphenation: func?tion
• Rhymes: -??k??n

Noun

function (plural functions)

1. What something does or is used for.

   Synonyms: aim, intention, purpose, role, use

2. A professional or official position.

   Synonyms: occupation, office, part, role

4. An official or social occasion.

   Synonyms: affair, occasion, social occasion, social function

5. Something which is dependent on or stems from another thing; a result or concomitant.
6. A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
7. (mathematics) A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain.

   Synonyms: map, mapping, mathematical function, operator, transformation

   Hypernym: relation

8. (computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.

   Synonyms: procedure, routine, subprogram, subroutine, func, funct

9. (biology) The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
10. (chemistry) The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
11. (anthropology) The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.

Hyponyms

• subfunction

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

function (third-person singular simple present functions, present participle functioning, simple past and past participle functioned)

1. (intransitive) To have a function.

   Synonyms: officiate, serve

2. (intransitive) To carry out a function; to be in action.

   Synonyms: go, operate, run, work

   Antonym: malfunction

Related terms

• functional
• dysfunction, dysfunctional

Translations

Middle French

Noun

function f (plural functions)

1. function (what something's intended use is)

Descendants

• ? English: function
• French: fonction

English

Etymology

From Old French defunct (French défunt), from Latin d?functus, past participle of d?fungor (“to finish, discharge”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /d??f??kt/
• (US) also IPA^(key): /?di?f??kt/

Adjective

defunct (comparative more defunct, superlative most defunct)

1. (now rare) Deceased, dead.
   • 1822, Lord Byron (translator), Morgante

     The boar, defunct, lay tripp'd up, near.

2. No longer in use, inactive.
3. (computing) Specifically, of a process: having terminated but not having been reaped (by its parent or an inheritor), and thus still occupying a process slot. See also zombie, zombie process.
4. (business) No longer in business or service.
5. (linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.

Synonyms

• (no longer in use): antiquated, disused, outdated; see also Thesaurus:obsolete

Translations

Verb

defunct (third-person singular simple present defuncts, present participle defuncting, simple past and past participle defuncted)

1. To make defunct.

Noun

defunct

1. The dead person (referred to).
   • 1817 September, in Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, volume 1, page 617:

     […] he saw Robert Johnston, pannel, come out of the cott-house with the fork in his hand, and pass by Alexander Fall and the deponent; heard the pannell say, he had sticked the dog, and he would stick the whelps too; whereupon the pannell run after the defunct’s son with the fork in his hand, […]

Related terms

• function
• bankrupt

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French défunt

Noun

defunct m (plural defunc?i)

1. deceased

Declension