Function and Feed

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

• Food for domestic livestock.
  • synonyms: provender

verb

• Give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on.
  • usage: "Remember to tip the waiter"; "fee the steward"
  • synonyms: tip, fee, bung
• Provide as food.
  • usage: "Feed the guests the nuts"
• Give food to.
  • usage: "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"
  • synonyms: give
• Feed into; supply.
  • usage: "Her success feeds her vanity"
• Introduce continuously.
  • usage: "feed carrots into a food processor"
  • synonyms: feed in
• Support or promote.
  • usage: "His admiration fed her vanity"
• Take in food; used of animals only.
  • usage: "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat"
  • synonyms: eat
• Serve as food for; be the food for.
  • usage: "This dish feeds six"
• Move along, of liquids.
  • usage: "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
  • synonyms: run, flow, course
• Profit from in an exploitatory manner.
  • usage: "He feeds on her insecurity"
  • synonyms: prey
• Gratify.
  • usage: "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"
  • synonyms: feast
• Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to.
  • usage: "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
  • synonyms: fertilize, fertilise

• (n.) The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace or grain to a run of stones.
• (v.t.) To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard.
• (n.) A grazing or pasture ground.
• (n.) The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion.
• (imp.&p.p.) of Fee.
• (v.t.) To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste or desire.
• (v.t.) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
• (v.i.) To take food; to eat.
• (v.t.) To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal.
• (v.t.) To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool or the tool to the work).
• (n.) That which is eaten; especially, food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.
• (n.) The motion or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work.
• (n.) An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.
• (v.t.) To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.
• (n.) The water supplied to steam boilers.
• (v.t.) To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.
• (v.i.) To be nourished, strengthened or satisfied, as if by food.
• (v.t.) To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler.
• (n.) A meal or the act of eating.
• (v.i.) To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon.
• (v.i.) To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.