dual function
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdualandfunction
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dual
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈdʒuː.əl/us/ˈduː.əl/
with two parts, or combining ...
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function
noun
uk/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/us/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/
the natural purpose (of something) or the duty (of ...
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(Definition ofdualandfunctionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofdual function
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Aesthetic fashion fulfilled thisdualfunction.
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Both are located in hospitals and havedualfunctionas collectors and users of blood.
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However, it seems that this material could have adualfunction.
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Some mediate adhesion, while others play a role in internalisation, and some have adualfunction.
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They have adualfunction.
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It had adualfunction.
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At the same time, the possibility is raised that negative evidence might fulfill adualfunctionfor the child.
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He went to perform adualfunction.
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Building societies perform adualfunction.
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The taxes raised have adualfunction.
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In both cases, the tests perform adualfunction.
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Once that has been done, thedualfunctionis completed.
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Thanks to universities'dualfunctionas teaching and researching institutions, a powerful impact is exerted by the language of academic publication.
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Expenditures on street construction and maintenance possess a similarlydualfunction, encouraging environmental improvement but equally facilitating the transactions of commerce.
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The formal unity of his poems and thedualfunctionof many of its elements make impossible their division in accordance with their semantic splits.
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There is no particular difficulty in realizing that such rules have adualfunction: they both determine what constitutes the practice and prescribe modes of conduct within it.
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I should make it clear that subsection (8) fulfils adualfunction.
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I am quite satisfied with the manner in which these commissioners are performing thedualfunction.
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To a certain extent, wave machines can have thedualfunctionof stopping coastline erosion.
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I understand that the commission are to have adualfunction.
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This envelope has adualfunction, assigning whistled sounds to a small number of major classes, while providing a frame for the alignment of whistled melodies with phonological segment boundaries.
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Thedualfunctionof these mirror neurons guarantees the necessary parity between speaker and listener, which requires that the two parties have a common understanding of the communicative elements.
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I think it is better to keep them with thatdualfunction, rather than to have duality of personnel.
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I do not for one moment say that if any man could fulfil thisdualfunctionmy right bon.
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