不及物动词

名词

1. 功能;作用;职责
The function of something or someone is the useful thing that they do or are intended to do.

2. 工作;运转;运行
If a machine or system is functioning, it is working or operating.

3. 发挥功能;起作用;行使职责
If someone or something functions as a particular thing, they do the work or fulfil the purpose of that thing.

4. (计算机的)功能(指执行的一系列操作)
A function is a series of operations that a computer performs, for example when a single key or a combination of keys is pressed.

5. 应变量;随他物变化而变化的事物
If you say that one thing is a function of another, you mean that its amount or nature depends on the other thing.

6. (正式的)宴会，大型聚会
A function is a large formal dinner or party.

1. the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group

e.g. the function of a teacher
the government must do its part
play its role

Synonym: officepartrole

2. what something is used for

e.g. the function of an auger is to bore holes
ballet is beautiful but what use is it?

Synonym: purposeroleuse

3. a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program

Synonym: routinesubroutinesubprogramprocedure

4. a vaguely specified social event

e.g. the party was quite an affair
an occasion arranged to honor the president
a seemingly endless round of social functions

Synonym: affairoccasionsocial occasionsocial function

5. a formal or official social gathering or ceremony

e.g. it was a black-tie function

6. a relation such that one thing is dependent on another

e.g. height is a function of age
price is a function of supply and demand

7. (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function)

Synonym: mathematical functionsingle-valued functionmapmapping