functioned
past simple and past participle offunction
| 单词 | functioned |
| 释义 | functioned past simple and past participle offunction function verb[I] uk/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/us/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/toworkoroperate: You'llsoonlearnhow theofficefunctions. Thetelevisionwas functioningnormallyuntilyesterday. I'm sotiredtoday, I canbarelyfunction. Synonym work(OPERATE) Compare malfunctionverbformal
Performing a function
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Machines - Functioning Phrasal verbfunction assomething/someone Examplesoffunctionedfunctioned In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The internet has thusfunctionedfor the burgeoning movement as an anchor and definer of identity. From theCambridge English Corpus These were countries thatfunctionedas plantation economies within the international division of labour, supplying tropical agricultural products to industrialised metropolitan countries. From theCambridge English Corpus The problem with the new technology of electric meters was the incomprehensibility of the mechanism by which itfunctioned. From theCambridge English Corpus In the bearing rein debate, the emphasis on utility, precision, rationality, and the verity of scientific understandingfunctionedrhetorically as a distancing device. From theCambridge English Corpus In addition, these areas alsofunctionedas fast neutron breeder reactors, producing additional fissile material in the form of plutonium and other trans-uranic elements. From theCambridge English Corpus There is no question that theyfunctionedas financial clearing houses, but these were indirect functions of their dominant position in the international monetary system. From theCambridge English Corpus The political platform thusfunctionedas a two-way interface, through which politicians negotiated their position with their constituents. From theCambridge English Corpus The nation's tourist structures, they wrote, hadfunctionedbetter in the past than in more recent times. From theCambridge English Corpus That is to say, local practices always existed andfunctionedoutside the authority of officials. From theCambridge English Corpus Neitherfunctionedfor their original purposes, but both are expressions of the identity and values of their builders. From theCambridge English Corpus Raw materials and (semi-)elaborated goodsfunctionedas exchange goods not only among elites, but also among lower strata of the populations. From theCambridge English Corpus These probablyfunctionedto regulate the rate and timing of seasonal inundation and subsequent drainage of the lagoon and adjoining fields. From theCambridge English Corpus During the early seventeenth century the termfunctionedessentially as an adjective - as in recitativo arioso - rather than a noun. From theCambridge English Corpus But it does seem that as long as violence did not come into play, late imperial land marketsfunctionedreasonably well. From theCambridge English Corpus The linked loci were often separated by areas of lower-density population, yet they appear to havefunctionedas one political and economic unit. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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