Functioning and Pure

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"

adjective

• Free of extraneous elements of any kind.
  • usage: "pure air and water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the violin's pure and lovely song"; "pure tones"; "pure oxygen"
• 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, perfect, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated
• Of color. ( being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black)
  • synonyms: saturated
• Free from discordant qualities.
• Concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied.
  • usage: "pure science"
• Used of persons or behaviors. ( having no faults; sinless)
  • usage: "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby- Sylvia Plath; "pure as the driven snow"
• In a state of sexual virginity.
  • usage: "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal"
  • synonyms: vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous

• (superl.) Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons.
• (superl.) Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and actions.
• (superl.) Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
• (superl.) Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.
• (superl.) Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.