Functioning and Progressive

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 is on-going.
  • synonyms: progressive tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, continuous tense
• A person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties.
  • synonyms: liberal, liberalist

adjective

• Favoring or promoting progress.
  • usage: "progressive schools"
• Favoring or promoting reform (often by government action.
  • synonyms: reformist, reform-minded
• Of taxes. ( adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases)
• Gradually advancing in extent.
• Of a card game or a dance. ( involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position)
  • usage: "progressive euchre"; "progressive tournaments"
• Advancing in severity.
  • usage: "progressive paralysis"

• (a.) Of or pertaining to the Progressive party.
• (a.) Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde.
• (a.) Improving; as, art is in a progressive state.