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functioning

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"

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

adjective

  • Performing or able to perform its regular function.
    • usage: "a functioning flashlight"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
practical

adjective

  • Concerned with actual use or practice.
    • usage: "he is a very practical person"; "the idea had no practical application"; "a practical knowledge of Japanese"; "woodworking is a practical art"
  • Guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory.
    • usage: "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics"
  • Being actually such in almost every respect.
    • usage: "a practical failure"; "the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin"
  • Having or put to a practical purpose or use.
    • usage: "practical mathematics"; "practical applications of calculus"
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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