Function and Sight

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

• An instance of visual perception.
  • usage: "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight"
• Anything that is seen.
  • usage: "he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights"
• The ability to see; the visual faculty.
  • synonyms: vision, visual sense, visual modality
• A range of mental vision.
  • usage: "in his sight she could do no wrong"
• The range of vision.
  • usage: "out of sight of land"
  • synonyms: ken
• The act of looking or seeing or observing.
  • usage: "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited"
  • synonyms: view, survey
• Often followed by `of'. ( a large number or amount or extent)
  • usage: "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
  • synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad

verb

• Catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes.
  • usage: "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge"
  • synonyms: spy
• Take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device. ).

• (v.t.) The instrument of seeing; the eye.
• (v.t.) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight; as, to sight a rifle or a cannon.
• (v.t.) The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.
• (v.t.) Inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person.
• (v.t.) In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening.
• (v.t.) A small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center or trunnion of a gun or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming.
• (v.t.) Mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was harmless.
• (v.t.) To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star.
• (v.t.) To get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck.
• (v.t.) A spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing.
• (v.t.) A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained; as, the sight of a quadrant.
• (v.t.) The power of seeing; the faculty of vision or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes.
• (v.i.) To take aim by a sight.
• (v.t.) A great number, quantity or sum; as, a sight of money.
• (v.t.) The state of admitting unobstructed vision; visibility; open view; region which the eye at one time surveys; space through which the power of vision extends; as, an object within sight.