different between function vs rite

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophones: right, wright, Wright, write

Etymology 1

Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin ritus.

Noun

rite (plural rites)

1. A religious custom.
2. (by extension) A prescribed behavior.
   • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN, page 141–42:

     But he had to perform the rites of hospitality, had to behave politely to his ally.

Related terms

• ritual

Translations

Etymology 2

Variation of right.

Adjective

rite (not comparable)

1. Informal spelling of right.

Derived terms

Adverb

rite (not comparable)

1. Informal spelling of right.

Interjection

rite

1. Informal spelling of right.

Noun

rite (plural rites)

1. Informal spelling of right.
   1. used in unique spellings of company brand names
   2. part of the contraction and interjection amirite

Anagrams

• REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, tier, tire, trie

French

Alternative forms

• rit (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ritus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?it/

Noun

rite m (plural rites)

1. rite

Derived terms

• rite de passage

Further reading

• “rite” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????t??/

Etymology 1

Participle

rite

1. past participle of righ

Adjective

rite

1. taut, tense
2. sharp, steep
3. exposed (le (“to”))
4. eager (chun (“for”))

Derived terms

• riteacht f (“tautness, tenseness; sharpness, steepness; exposedness, bleakness”)

Etymology 2

Participle

rite

1. past participle of rith

Adjective

rite

1. exhausted, extinct

Derived terms

• rite anuas, rite síos (“run down”) (in health)

References

• "rite" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Latin

Etymology

From r?tus (“rite, custom”)

Adverb

r?te (not comparable)

1. according to religious usage, with due observances, with proper ceremonies, ceremonially, solemnly, duly

References

• rite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rite in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *lite. Compare Hawaiian like.

Verb

rite

1. to resemble; to be like, similar, alike

Derived terms

• whakarite: to make something equal, to make something similar

References

• “rite” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori-English, English-Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, ?ISBN.

Murui Huitoto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??i.t?]
• Hyphenation: ri?te

Verb

rite

1. (transitive) to plant

References

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)?^[2] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 214
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.?^[3], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 87

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rite]

Noun

rite

1. nominative/accusative plural of ri?