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functions

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

Example Sentences

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Izquierdo is correct that the card functions more like a debit card than a credit card.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

The approach could also lower the massive energy demands of large AI systems and potentially support basic quantum computing functions on future chips.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

“In what universe do we live in when I said their kid functions really well and they were mad at me?” said Hamilton.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Mercedes sees robots starting with highly repetitive logistics-type functions.

From Barron's • May 18, 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