Function and Direct

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.

verb

• Command with authority.
  • usage: "He directed the children to do their homework"
• Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal.
  • usage: "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"; "criticism directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself"
  • synonyms: target, aim, place, point
• Guide the actors in (plays and films. )
• Be in charge of.
• Take somebody somewhere.
  • usage: "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance"; "He conducted us to the palace"
  • synonyms: lead, take, conduct, guide
• Cause to go somewhere.
  • usage: "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"
  • synonyms: send
• Point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards.
  • usage: "Please don't aim at your little brother"; "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's opponent"
  • synonyms: aim, take, train, take aim
• Lead, as in the performance of a composition.
  • usage: "conduct an orchestra; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years"
  • synonyms: conduct, lead
• Give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction.
  • usage: "I directed them towards the town hall"
• Specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public.
  • synonyms: calculate, aim
• Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling.
  • synonyms: steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise
• Put an address on (an envelope.
  • synonyms: address
• Plan and direct (a complex undertaking. )
  • usage: "he masterminded the robbery"
  • synonyms: mastermind, engineer, organize, organise, orchestrate

adjective

• Direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short.
  • usage: "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit"
• Having no intervening persons, agents, conditions.
  • usage: "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of the accident"; "direct vote"
  • synonyms: unmediated
• Straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action.
  • usage: "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach"
• In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
  • usage: "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity"
  • synonyms: lineal
• Moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or-for planets-around the sun in the same direction as the Earth.
• Similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity)
  • usage: "a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases. "
• Of a current. ( flowing in one direction only)
  • usage: "direct current"
• Being an immediate result or consequence.
  • usage: "a direct result of the accident"
• In precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker.
  • usage: "a direct quotation"; "repeated their dialog verbatim"
  • synonyms: verbatim
• Lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact.
  • usage: "the direct opposite"

adverb

• Without deviation.
  • usage: "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office"
  • synonyms: directly, straight

• (v.t.) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter.
• (a.) Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
• (v.t.) To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.
• (n.) A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation.
• (v.t.) To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army.
• (a.) Straightforward; not of crooked ways or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
• (a.) Straight; not crooked, oblique or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
• (a.) In the direction of the general planetary motion or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body.
• (v.t.) To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road.
• (v.i.) To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
• (v.t.) To arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a mark or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance.
• (a.) In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.
• (a.) Pertaining to or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates; as, direct nomination, direct legislation.