Function and Escape

function

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

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

escape

The act of escaping physically.
- usage: "he made his escape from the mental hospital"; "the canary escaped from its cage"; "his flight was an indication of his guilt"
- synonyms: flight
An inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy.
- usage: "romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life"; "his alcohol problem was a form of escapism"
- synonyms: escapism
Nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do.
- usage: "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"
- synonyms: evasion, dodging
An avoidance of danger or difficulty.
- usage: "that was a narrow escape"
A means or way of escaping.
- usage: "hard work was his escape from worry"; "they installed a second hatch as an escape"; "their escape route"
A plant originally cultivated but now growing wild.
The discharge of a fluid from some container.
- usage: "they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"; "he had to clean up the leak"
- synonyms: leak, leakage, outflow
A valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level.
- synonyms: safety valve, relief valve, escape valve, escape cock

Run away from confinement.
- usage: "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"
- synonyms: get away, break loose
Fail to experience.
- usage: "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
- synonyms: miss
Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action.
- usage: "She gets away with murder"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"
- synonyms: get off, get away, get by, get out
Be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by.
- usage: "What you are seeing in him eludes me"
- synonyms: elude
Remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion.
- usage: "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"; "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer"
- synonyms: get away
Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run.
- usage: "If you see this man, run"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
- synonyms: scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, fly the coop, break away
Issue or leak, as from a small opening.
- usage: "Gas escaped into the bedroom"

(v.i.) To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.
(v.) To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.
(n.) An apophyge.
(n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.
(n.) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression.
(v.i.) To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of.
(n.) A sally.
(n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.
(n.) The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape.
(v.) To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.
(n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.
(v.i.) To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors.
(n.) A plant which has escaped from cultivation.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary