adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
functional food
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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These needs are known as functional prerequisites.
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Purse nets remain unaffected and are as functional as at any other time.
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These authors see the spectating of sporting events as functional for society.
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The cloches are just as functional as modern designs, but have an elegance that plastic and aluminium can not match.
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Mr Fothergill's 1991 seed catalogue includes a fully functional model which has a traditional iron wheel and is priced at £179.
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Assimilation and accommodation are fully functional at birth.
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The Museum of Religious Art will be fully functional from immediately before the opening of Mayfest.
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Intel is currently preparing fully functional samples of the chips for shipment to manufacturers in the second half.
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In all patients the pouch had been fully functional for at least six months.
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The patient characteristically believes that the part is diseased or not fully functional .
more
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At its most saintly the religious life offered a much more functional view.
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Sprayway's Micro Jammer is a fleece jacket made even more functional with a windproof outer layer.
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Many come with detachable straps, which are more functional for day use.
purely
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In contrast to Livesey's, the room was purely functional .
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The roomy silos of the hull flanks gave it a bulbous appearance that defied approval by any aesthetic but the purely functional .
■ NOUN
analysis
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This event-driven analysis is frequently called functional analysis.
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In conclusion, the use of specific molecular probes and insitu hybridisation allows a functional analysis of tissue macrophages.
area
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Each of the three functional areas is dealt with in terms of its salient features and its mainstream activities.
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The anytime / anyplace work world is upon us, particularly in functional areas like sales.
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Business development managers also interview heads of functional areas within eBay to discover what aspects of past deals gave them grief.
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Compared to people in other functional areas , they feel little compunction about challenging or questioning a superior.
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Each runs one of the restaurants, and also takes responsibility for a major functional area .
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By peers, I mean associates in other functional areas and in the corporate or regional offices.
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The breakdown of departments into functional areas is unfortunately subject to frequent change, making computerisation of the return difficult.
assessment
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Information may be gathered in a variety of ways, including the use of functional assessment instruments and selective assessment forms.
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Many practitioners know this, and may be put off from benefiting from the undoubted if limited strengths of functional assessment .
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The practitioner works as the officer of the organisation to test for entitlement to its services, perhaps using functional assessment methods.
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The first of these current approaches is that of functional assessment .
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This neglect is not only by academics, but is also evident in the practice of both selective and functional assessment .
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Such a state of affairs can not be ignored, as it tends to be in selective and much functional assessment .
characteristic
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Meisel's second functional characteristic is coherence, which is rather more straight forward.
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Meisel identifies three functional characteristics which-Mosca's elite has to have - group consciousness. coherence and conspiracy.
department
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He may also have a contact man in each functional department responsible for co-ordination and monitoring of the work within the department.
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In a functional department we face quite properly increasing pressure on our resources.
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There is also a general feeling that a co-ordination unit will result in more pressure and control on functional departments .
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It was decided early that the organization should be strongly business-led with unified functional departments in support.
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Local authorities are often composed of these kinds of functional departments . 3.
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The project manager makes agreements with the heads of functional departments which provide the necessary resources in terms of manpower and equipment.
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For example, the social services department within a local authority is a functional department.
equivalent
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Neither the provision of contemporary hardware or a functional equivalent is trivial.
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Indeed Bourdieu is wont to speak of functions or their functional equivalent .
form
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The residuals can also be used to indicate whether we have fitted the correct functional form or not.
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In Piaget's system the behavioural components are functional forms of organic structure.
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Getting these into human cells, enmasse, in a functional form is more difficult.
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Each of these functional forms is depicted below.
group
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The characteristic functional groups were then indicated by prefixes and suffixes with numbers to indicate their positions.
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Then any additional carbon atoms forming the skeleton were added and finally the functional group .
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The first section describes some of the general principles that affect the reactivity of functional groups .
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Task forces, project teams, committees, boards, departmental or functional group meetings fall into this classification.
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The chemistry of the functional groups is considered here with a mechanistic rationale.
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This can lead to friction, acrimony and lack of co-operation between functional groups .
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Internal interfaces include those between an engineer and different levels of management, departments or functional groups within the same organisation.
importance
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He begins by questioning the adequacy of their measurement of the functional importance of positions.
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In fact a number of sociologists have argued that there is no objective way of measuring the functional importance of positions.
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Thus differences in pay and prestige between occupational groups may be due to differences in their power rather than their functional importance .
language
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Useful - really functional language items that can come in handy in real situations.
manager
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Each functional manager appoints a representative who is responsible for the project within his department.
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At the start of a project there is often a pressure on functional managers to provide qualified people for the project.
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This creates complicated relationships between project managers and functional managers.
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Depending on the situation, he may report to the chief executive, to a functional manager , or to a steering committee.
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You must be able to develop good, informal contact with functional managers .
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As in every matrix structure, the operational roles have reporting responsibilities to functional managers as well as to their immediate line managers.
prerequisite
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These needs are known as functional prerequisites .
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The major functions of social institutions are those which help to meet the functional prerequisites of society.
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A minimal degree of integration is therefore a functional prerequisite of society.
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They assume that society has certain basic needs or functional prerequisites which must be met if it is to survive.
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They therefore look to social stratification to see how far it meets these functional prerequisites .
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Thus a functional prerequisite of society involves at least a minimal degree of integration between the parts.
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One such functional prerequisite is effective role allocation and performance.
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The major institutions of society are justified by the belief that they are meeting the functional prerequisites of the social system.
result
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The 33 patients with distal disease have functional results that are indistinguishable from those with total colitis.
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Half of all the failures are because patients are dissatisfied with the functional results of this operation.
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Nevertheless, the pouch operation failed in only three patients, the other seven having satisfactory functional results .
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Of the two patients with recurrent pouchitis who have ulcerative colitis both have had pouch excision because of poor functional results .
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The functional result in patients with ulcerative colitis is extremely variable.
role
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It is thus possible that the two exchangers have distinct functional roles and are selectively regulated.
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Mintzberg worked with managers in industry and devised a model of their functional roles .
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It also had a functional role .
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The provision of these requirements by a cell line should aid their identification and analysis of their functional role in T-cell development.
significance
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What then is their functional significance ?
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For these reasons the functional significance of these observations is difficult to assess.
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These results lend support to the idea that tenascin alternative splice forms may also have functional significance at the protein level.
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The mutation has no functional significance and controls no traits, researchers say.
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For the purpose of analyzing the functional significance of chaos it is not necessary to make this distinction.
structure
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In other words, the emergence of conscious experience depends only on an appropriate functional structure .
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But what happens in functional structures ?
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It emphasizes rationally structured systems, built on division of labor and job specialization in a functional structure.
unit
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By breaking down the communication barriers among work groups, rotation enhances the flow of information between workers and across functional units .
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The result: 100 trillion synapses. 100 trillion functional units .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The company was divided into four main functional areas.
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These tin cookie cutters are both functional and decorative.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In a functional sense, spillover was founded on the belief that contemporary economies were based upon a tangle of interrelated sectors.
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It can be contemporary or traditional, marginally functional or not functional at all.
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Nevertheless it is useful and justified to look at living systems from the functional point of view.
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So far, criticism of functionalist theories has been concerned with the view that stratification is functional .
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The Rotachute was a simple yet functional design.
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There is no question but that agency rulemaking is lawmaking in any functional or realistic sense of the term....
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Up to this point, these new officials had no functional responsibilities.