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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Functions such as attention, perception, memory, language, and reasoning have each been linked to specific brain networks, and scientists have typically studied these systems separately.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

Functions including student loans and financial aid are expected to be transferred to other agencies.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2025

Functions and trigonometry came easily, but the basics gave him trouble.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2023

Functions that are performed by a single column of the mammalian cortex require the communication of separate brain nuclei.

From Scientific American • Jul. 6, 2023

"And then—That Cessation of all Vital Functions the Vulgar Call 'Death,' for which thank your own Satanic folly and insolence, farewell."

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles