function

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 150.29 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun What something does or is used for.
2. noun A professional or official position.
3. noun An official or social occasion.

   Our hotel is hosting a function for all the warehouse workers on the night of April 18.

4. noun A party.
5. noun Something which is dependent on or stems from another thing; a result or concomitant.
6. noun A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
7. noun A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain.
8. noun A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.

Similar words

operate use purpose procedure work officiate routine part role run

Often followed by

of is in as and to for that was

Word family

functional functionally functioned functioning functionless functions