Function and Answer

noun

• 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. ()
  • synonyms: mathematical function, single-valued function, map, mapping
• What something is used for.
  • usage: "the function of an auger is to bore holes"; "ballet is beautiful but what use is it"
  • synonyms: purpose, role, use
• The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
  • usage: "the function of a teacher"; "the government must do its part"; "play its role"
  • synonyms: office, part, role
• A relation such that one thing is dependent on another.
  • usage: "height is a function of age"; "price is a function of supply and demand"
• A formal or official social gathering or ceremony.
  • usage: "it was a black-tie function"
• A vaguely specified social event.
  • usage: "the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions"
  • synonyms: affair, occasion, social occasion, social function
• A set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program.
  • synonyms: routine, subroutine, subprogram, procedure

verb

• Perform as expected when applied.
  • usage: "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
  • synonyms: work, operate, go, run
• Serve a purpose, role, or function.
  • usage: "The tree stump serves as a table"; "The female students served as a control group"; "This table would serve very well"; "His freedom served him well"; "The table functions as a desk"
  • synonyms: serve
• Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function.
  • usage: "His wife officiated as his private secretary"
  • synonyms: officiate

• (v.i.) Alternative of Functionate.
• (n.) The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.
• (n.) A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x.
• (n.) The act of executing or performing any duty, office or calling; per formance.
• (n.) The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body.
• (n.) The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind.
• (n.) A public or social ceremony or gathering; a festivity or entertainment, especially one somewhat formal.
• (n.) A religious ceremony, especially one particularly impressive and elaborate.

noun

• A statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation.
  • usage: "I waited several days for his answer"; "he wrote replies to several of his critics"
  • synonyms: reply, response
• A statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem.
  • usage: "they were trying to find a peaceful solution"; "the answers were in the back of the book"; "he computed the result to four decimal places"
  • synonyms: solution, result, resolution, solvent
• The speech act of replying to a question.
• The principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims.
• A nonverbal reaction.
  • usage: "his answer to any problem was to get drunk"; "their answer was to sue me"

verb

• React verbally.
  • usage: "She didn't want to answer"; "answer the question"; "We answered that we would accept the invitation"
  • synonyms: reply, respond
• Respond to a signal.
  • usage: "answer the door"; "answer the telephone"
• Give the correct answer or solution to.
  • usage: "answer a question"; "answer the riddle"
• Understand the meaning of.
  • usage: "The question concerning the meaning of life cannot be answered"
  • synonyms: resolve
• Give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument. )
  • usage: "The defendant answered to all the charges of the prosecution"
• Be liable or accountable.
  • usage: "She must answer for her actions"
• Be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity.
  • usage: "A few words would answer"; "This car suits my purpose well"; "Will $100 do"; "A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school"; "Nothing else will serve"
  • synonyms: suffice, do, serve
• Match or correspond.
  • usage: "The drawing of the suspect answers to the description the victim gave"
• Be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of.
  • usage: "This may answer her needs"
• React to a stimulus or command.
  • usage: "The steering of my new car answers to the slightest touch"

• (n.) To be or act in return or response to.
• (v.i.) To be opposite or to act in opposition.
• (n.) Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address or the like; a reply.
• (v.i.) To make a satisfactory response or return.
• (v.i.) To be or act as an equivalent or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer.
• (n.) To be or act an equivalent to or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.
• (n.) A reply to a change; a defense.
• (n.) To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell.
• (n.) To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit.
• (n.) To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument or justification, and the like; to refute.
• (n.) To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.
• (n.) To render account to or for.
• (n.) A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill.
• (n.) A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem.
• (v.i.) To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge) or in reply; to make response.
• (n.) To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question or to a speech, declaration, argument or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to.
• (n.) To atone; to be punished for.
• (v.i.) To render account or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care.
• (v.i.) To be or act in conformity or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to.
• (n.) Something done in return for or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action.
• (v.i.) To be or act in return.
• (v.i.) To be or act by way of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils.
• (n.) To be opposite to; to face.