Function and Forge

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

forge

Create by hammering.
- usage: "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues"
- synonyms: hammer
Make a copy of with the intent to deceive.
- usage: "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"
- synonyms: fake, counterfeit
Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort.
- usage: "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"
- synonyms: invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate
Move ahead steadily.
- usage: "He forged ahead"
Move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy.
- synonyms: spurt, spirt
Make something, usually for a specific function.
- usage: "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword"
- synonyms: shape, form, work, mold, mould
Make out of components (often in an improvising manner. )
- usage: "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"
- synonyms: fashion

(n.) To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
(n.) The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.
(n.) A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy.
(v.t.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.
(n.) The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.
(v.t.) To commit forgery.
(v.t.) To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead.
(n.) To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature or a signed document.
(n.) To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
(n.) To coin.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary