The phrase "a different function from" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two functions or roles that are distinct from each other.
Example: "The new software provides a different function from the previous version, enhancing user experience."
Alternatives: "a different role than" or "a distinct function compared to".
Mr. Dundore argued that contemporary advertising held a different function from that of the '60s.
In Perfect 10, Inc., the Ninth Circuit held that the use of copyrighted thumbnail images in internet search results was transformative because the thumbnail copies served a different function from the original copyrighted images.
The failure criterion of a spot weld as a function of the axial load and the shear load is expressed as a different function from an elliptic function, which was proposed in previous researches: the different function is called a β-norm function in this paper.
The venom appears to have a different function from those produced by nonmammalian species; its effects are not life-threatening to humans, but nevertheless powerful enough to seriously impair the victim.
On the other hand, Hos2 has a different function from Rpd3; Hos2 functions as a gene activator [19], [20].
For example, Arabidopsis SOS1B is only able to transport Li+[ 16], and the C. nodosa SOS1B is described as having a different function from CnSOS1A [ 45].
Each episode is set at a different function, ranging from a college reunion to a porn-industry awards ceremony.
A distant group of species, Group C, include only species from the pre-whole genome duplication event in the yeast clade and could constitute another gene member with a different function or specialization from TNA1.
However, whereas the teeth of these two species have similar shapes for a wrenching feeding action, the sharp edges of the teeth of P. eccentricus imply a somewhat different function from that of P. microlepis; a scraping feeding action such as that observed in P. straeleni may also be involved in the feeding behaviour of P. eccentricus.
Alito said that he considered Hansen's response to be an important concession, because, "Isolated DNA has a very different function from the DNA as it exists in nature.
The practical kind, such as inventories, shopping lists or lists of dinner-party guests, has a quite different function from the poetic: no one wants a potential infinity of guests arriving to dinner, and no one wants a library catalogue suggesting that the library holds books which it does not.
