different between function vs vitals
function
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)
- What something does or is used for.
- Synonyms: aim, intention, purpose, role, use
- A professional or official position.
- Synonyms: occupation, office, part, role
- An official or social occasion.
- Synonyms: affair, occasion, social occasion, social function
- Something which is dependent on or stems from another thing; a result or concomitant.
- A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
- (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
- (computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
- Synonyms: procedure, routine, subprogram, subroutine, func, funct
- (biology) The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
- (chemistry) The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
- (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)
- (intransitive) To have a function.
- Synonyms: officiate, serve
- (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)
- function (what something's intended use is)
Descendants
- ? English: function
- French: fonction
function From the web:
- what function do chloroplasts perform
- what functions as a symbol in this excerpt
- what function does the retina serve
- what function does the gallbladder serve
- what function does the spleen have
- what function is graphed below y=cot(x-pi/4)
- what function is graphed below
- what function equation is represented by the graph
vitals
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?va?t?lz/
Noun
vitals pl (plural only)
- (plural only) Those organs of the body that are essential for life.
- (plural only, figuratively) Those parts of a system without which it cannot function.
- (medicine, plural only) Vital signs.
Quotations
- 1827 Ann Hasseltine Judson - An account of the American Baptist mission to the Burman empire
- they were ripped open from the lowest to the highest extremity of the stomach, and their vitals and part of their bowels were hanging out
- 2003 David R Woodward - Trial by Friendship: Anglo-American Relations, 1917-1918
- This final victory can only be had by reaching the vitals of Germany and by destroying her armed forces.
- 1991 Suzy Szasz - Living With It: Why You Don't Have to Be Healthy to Be Happy
- At least once an hour a nurse came into the room, either to check on me or my roommate, or to take vitals
Derived terms
- stap my vitals
Anagrams
- vistal
Catalan
Adjective
vitals
- plural of vital
vitals From the web:
- what vitals are taken
- what vitals mean
- what vitals do cnas take
- when should vitals be taken
- what are the 5 vitals
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