Functional - English meaning

adjective

Characterized by severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.

Usage examples:

An ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and manual labour

noun

A person who follows an ascetic life.

Usage examples:

The composition of hymns of the rig-veda was done by hindu recluses, ascetics, rishis and sages roo…

adjective

Avoiding physical pleasures and living a simple life, often for religious reasons

Usage examples:

They live a very ascetic life.

adjective

(of a person or part of the body) not clothed or covered.

Usage examples:

He was bare from the waist up

verb

Uncover (a part of the body or other thing) and expose it to view.

Usage examples:

He bared his chest to show his scar

determiner

A large amount or number of.

Usage examples:

My birthday's on the 22nd—i'm gonna get bare cash

adjective

Forming an essential foundation or starting point; fundamental.

Usage examples:

Certain basic rules must be obeyed

noun

The essential facts or principles of a subject or skill.

Usage examples:

I learnt the basics of programming on a course

noun

A simple high-level computer programming language that uses familiar english words, designed for beginners and formerly used widely.

Usage examples:

You could write your own software in the basic programming language

adjective

Successful in producing a desired or intended result.

Usage examples:

Effective solutions to environmental problems

noun

A soldier fit and available for service.

Usage examples:

When the battles broke out, he had a total of 920 effectives

adjective

Producing the intended results, or (of a person) skilled or able to do something well

Usage examples:

An effective policy/strategy, we’ve found that giving away samples of our product is the most effec…

verb

Work or operate in a proper or particular way.

Usage examples:

Her liver is functioning normally

noun

An activity that is natural to or the purpose of a person or thing.

Usage examples:

Bridges perform the function of providing access across water

noun

A relation or expression involving one or more variables.

Usage examples:

The function (bx + c)

noun

An act of leaving a place; a departure.

Usage examples:

Don't lose track of your child's comings and goings

adjective

Existing or available; to be had.

Usage examples:

He asked if there were any other jobs going

verb

Move from one place to another; travel.

Usage examples:

He went out to the shops

adjective

Relating to your job and its surroundings

Usage examples:

Employees are unhappy with working conditions., working mothers, the mechanic finally got the car b…

adjective

Used to describe people who work and earn money

Usage examples:

Too many working people are piling up debt on high-interest credit cards., when employers ignore he…

noun

A person who advocates or practises minimalism.

Usage examples:

Although his latter-day works have been compared to those of arvo part and henryk gorecki, both bes…

adjective

Relating to minimalism.

Usage examples:

In the 1980s and 1990s, torke's music was a synthesis of aggressive neo-classicism and minimalist i…

adjective

Taking or showing as little action and involvement in a situation as possible

Usage examples:

A minimalist view of foreign policy

adjective

Unassuming in the estimation of one's abilities or achievements.

Usage examples:

He was a very modest man, refusing to take any credit for the enterprise

adjective

Not large in size or amount, or not great in value

Usage examples:

A modest increase in salary, a modest house, although an outstanding scientist, he’s a modest man.

adjective

Not large in size or amount, or not expensive

Usage examples:

Modest amount/budget/profit we have a fairly modest budget, considering our oil wealth., modest ris…

verb

(of a person) control the functioning of (a machine, process, or system).

Usage examples:

The prime minister operates a system of divide and rule

adjective

Functioning or having effect.

Usage examples:

The transmitter is operative

noun

A worker, especially one in a manufacturing industry.

Usage examples:

The operatives clean the machines at the end of every shift

adjective

Not decorated or elaborate; simple or basic in character.

Usage examples:

Good plain food

adverb

Used for emphasis.

Usage examples:

Perhaps the youth was just plain stupid

noun

A large area of flat land with few trees.

Usage examples:

The coastal plain

adjective

Of or concerned with the actual doing or use of something rather than with theory and ideas.

Usage examples:

There are two obvious practical applications of the research

noun

An examination or lesson in which theories and procedures learned are applied to the actual making or doing of something.

Usage examples:

It means they are on their own on the final hurdle of a seemingly endless slog of course work, mock…

adjective

Relating to actual experience or to the use of knowledge in activities rather than to knowledge only or ideas

Usage examples:

I know you’ve been trained as a teacher, but do you have any practical teaching experience?, you’ve…

noun

The action or movement of a runner.

Usage examples:

His running tore united to shreds

adjective

(of water) flowing naturally or supplied to a building through pipes and taps.

Usage examples:

Hot and cold running water

verb

Move at a speed faster than a walk, never having both or all the feet on the ground at the same time.

Usage examples:

The dog ran across the road

adjective

Fulfilling its function adequately; usable.

Usage examples:

An ageing but still serviceable water supply system

adjective

(of an object or activity) able to do the work intended

Usage examples:

If this fan is still serviceable, we could use it in the office.

adjective

(of something bad or undesirable) very great; intense.

Usage examples:

A severe shortage of technicians

adjective

Causing great pain, difficulty, damage, etc.; very serious

Usage examples:

A severe earthquake, the family faced severe challenges when he lost his job., severe criticism

adjective

Easily understood or done; presenting no difficulty.

Usage examples:

A simple solution

noun

A medicinal herb, or a medicine made from one.

Usage examples:

The gatherers of simples

exclamation

Of very low intelligence.

adjective

Showing or characterized by austerity or a lack of comfort or luxury.

Usage examples:

The accommodation was fairly spartan

noun

A citizen of sparta.

Usage examples:

The spartans were the dorian inhabitants of a greek city-state in the peloponnese that for many cen…

noun

A canadian dessert apple of a variety with crisp white flesh and maroon-flushed yellow skin.

adjective

Not adorned; plain.

Usage examples:

It was very simple, its walls unadorned

adjective

Plain and simple, with little or no decoration

Usage examples:

Her unadorned beauty

adjective

Not adorned or decorated.

Usage examples:

The walls were completely undecorated

adjective

An undecorated object or place has nothing added to make it more attractive

Usage examples:

She likes plain walls and altogether undecorated surfaces., undecorated pavlova can safely be left …

adjective

Not embellished or decorated.

Usage examples:

The unembellished truth

adjective

Not having any decoration.

Usage examples:

An unornamented two-storey building

adjective

Not decorated with any ornament (= a decoration that is added to something to make it more beautiful)

Usage examples:

She wore a stately, unornamented red gown with a loose gold sash., the company's office was located…

adjective

Not ostentatious.

Usage examples:

He was generous in a quiet, unostentatious way

idiom

If something, especially a system or a machine, is up and running it is operating

Usage examples:

The engineer soon got the air-conditioning up and running again.

adjective

Able or fit to be used.

Usage examples:

Usable information

adjective

Able to be used for a purpose

Usage examples:

The house needs a lot of work to make it usable.

adjective

Able to be used for a practical purpose or in several ways.

Usage examples:

Aspirins are useful for headaches

adjective

Helping you to do or obtain something

Usage examples:

Your advice was very useful, saving me a lot of time., i was usefully occupied packing dishes all m…

adjective

Designed to be useful or practical rather than attractive.

Usage examples:

A utilitarian building

noun

An adherent of utilitarianism.

Usage examples:

Assigning particular rights to people may be a way to promote wellbeing, and when it is, utilitaria…

adjective

Designed to be useful rather than decorative

Usage examples:

Like many factories, it's a very ugly utilitarian building.

noun

The state of being useful, profitable, or beneficial.

Usage examples:

He had a poor opinion of the utility of book learning

adjective

Useful, especially through being able to perform several functions.

Usage examples:

A utility truck

noun

Ability to satisfy a particular need; usefulness

Usage examples:

Its basic utility lies in being able to drive where other vehicles can’t go., a utility bill, after…

adjective

Not special, unusual, or interesting; ordinary.

Usage examples:

Your humble workaday pc

adjective

Ordinary; not unusual

Usage examples:

Compared to the extravagance and glamour of last winter's clothes, this season's collection look si…

adjective

Having paid employment.

Usage examples:

The size of the working population

noun

The action of doing work.

Usage examples:

Working with animals teaches patience

verb

Be engaged in physical or mental activity in order to achieve a result; do work.

Usage examples:

She has been working so hard