Functioning and Perfect

noun

• Process or manner of functioning or operating.
  • usage: "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
  • synonyms: operation, performance

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: function, 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, function
• Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function.
  • usage: "His wife officiated as his private secretary"
  • synonyms: officiate, function

adjective

• Performing or able to perform its regular function.
  • usage: "a functioning flashlight"

noun

• A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect.
  • synonyms: perfective, perfective tense, perfect tense

verb

• Make perfect or complete.
  • usage: "perfect your French in Paris"
  • synonyms: hone

adjective

• Being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish.
  • usage: "a perfect circle"; "a perfect reproduction"; "perfect happiness"; "perfect manners"; "a perfect specimen"; "a perfect day"
• Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers.
  • usage: "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"
  • synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated
• Precisely accurate or exact.
  • usage: "perfect timing"

• (a.) To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.
• (n.) The perfect tense or a form in that tense.
• (a.) Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.
• (a.) Well informed; certain; sure.
• (a.) Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower.