FPage 237
- English Word Funambulus Definition A ropewalker or ropedancer.
- English Word Function Definition The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.
- English Word Function Definition 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.
- English Word Function Definition 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.
- English Word Function Definition The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.
- English Word Function Definition 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.
- English Word Function Definition Alt. of Functionate
- English Word Functional Definition Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.
- English Word Functional Definition Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general.
- English Word Functionalize Definition To assign to some function or office.
- English Word Functionally Definition In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity.
- English Word Functionaries Definition of Functionary
- English Word Functionary Definition One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.
- English Word Functionate Definition To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.
- English Word Functionless Definition Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin.
- English Word Fund Definition An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.
- English Word Fund Definition A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.
- English Word Fund Definition The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds.
- English Word Fund Definition An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object.
- English Word Fund Definition A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense.
- English Word Fund Definition To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes.
- English Word Fund Definition To place in a fund, as money.
- English Word Fund Definition To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.
- English Word Fundable Definition Capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertible into bonds.
- English Word Fundament Definition Foundation.
- English Word Fundament Definition The part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks; specifically (Anat.), the anus.
- English Word Fundamental Definition Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom.
- English Word Fundamental Definition A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith.
- English Word Fundamentally Definition Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents.
- English Word Funded Definition of Fund