Function and Contract

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 binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law.
• Contract bridge. ( the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make)
  • synonyms: declaration
• A variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid.
  • synonyms: contract bridge

verb

• Enter into a contractual arrangement.
  • synonyms: undertake
• Engage by written agreement.
  • usage: "They signed two new pitchers for the next season"
  • synonyms: sign, sign on, sign up
• Squeeze or press together.
  • usage: "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"
  • synonyms: compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, press
• Be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness.
  • usage: "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill"
  • synonyms: take, get
• Become smaller or draw together.
  • usage: "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"
  • synonyms: shrink
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "The heat contracted the woollen garment"
• Compress or concentrate.
  • usage: "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"
  • synonyms: condense, concentrate
• Make or become more narrow or restricted.
  • usage: "The selection was narrowed"; "The road narrowed"
  • synonyms: narrow
• Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.
  • usage: "The manuscript must be shortened"
  • synonyms: abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, reduce

• (v.i.) To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet.
• (n.) To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
• (n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
• (a.) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
• (a.) Contracted; as, a contract verb.
• (n.) To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.
• (v.i.) To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.
• (n.) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
• (n.) The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights.
• (n.) To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.
• (n.) To betroth; to affiance.
• (n.) The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
• (n.) A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.

In real estate parlance, the' Contract' is the legal document by which buyer and seller make offers and counteroffers. The real estate contract describes the property, includes or excludes items in the property, names the price, apportions the closing costs between the parties and sets forth a closing date. When buyer and seller agree on terms and sign the same document, the property is said to be "under contract." More formally known as agreement for sale, purchase agreement or earnest money contract.