单词 | functional |
释义 | func·tion·al 1. a. < replace the foreman who supervised all aspects of work with several functional foremen > < a manager who has functional authority over a specified process through the several departments > : dependently related < many similarities, some functional to the pastoral nomadic way of life, some due to historical relationship — Elizabeth Bacon > b. < the problem now is not a constitutional one, it is a functional one … to make the machinery established at San Francisco work — C.M.Eichelberger > < a functional expert, available to keep the administrative organization … in good running order — F.R.M.de Paula > < a functional presentation of government activities that groups related items regardless of agency or location > as (1) (2) < delegates elected on a functional rather than geographical basis > : occupational (3) < the air-conditioned coach resulted in the functional obsolescence of the old day coach > 2. < a style of writing in which every word is functional > < its trunk and branches were a functional part of the tree house > as a. < functional architecture > < functional fabrics > < the play's dialogue was strictly functional > b. < functional education selects knowledge that is concrete and usable, not abstract and theoretical > c. < the European Defense Community and other functional arms of the emerging political structure — New Republic > < whether functional cooperation would lead to structural union > 3. < vision that is functional only in bright light > : working < the flashlight was still functional after being dropped > 4. < functional organization > < functional management > 5. 6. < in our western civilization the personal life and the functional life have fallen apart — P.C.W.Gutkind > < functional sociology > 7. < a functional psychosis caused by maladjustment > < in the functional … disorders the amount of organ pathology which is discovered, even with careful and thorough examination, is neither sufficient nor impressive enough to account for the symptoms — E.A.Strecker > |
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