Sentence examples for functional thing from inspiring English sources

Design in a lot of ways is a very functional thing.

A water tank, a humble functional thing, is placed so that it forms a shelter for an external dining area underneath.

"You take them for granted because you just drive into them and then you're in and out in minutes, and it's purely a functional thing," said David Webster, collections manager at the Hoboken Historical Museum, who helped assemble the exhibition here, "Driving Under the Hudson: A History of the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels".

Is a CAD file expressive speech that should be protected, or a functional thing that should be regulated?

According to Alan Soble, for Kant, "both the body and the compliant actions of the other person are tools (a means) that one uses for one's sexual pleasure, and to that extent the other person is a fungible, functional thing" (Soble 2002a, 226).

"Really, though, I want to make a functional thing and get it out there.

"Oracle [was] trying to use software copyright to protect a portion of the software thats basically functional, and copyright isn't supposed to protect functional things," he added.

And as she saw it, "there were a lot of beautiful things, and a lot of functional things, but rarely were they both".

Their goal, said Ms. Stone-Pfeifer, below left, was "to take the anxiety out of shopping by offering the single best and most functional things in every category of home accessories".

Palm decided to make ugly, functional things and Apple deferred, looking ahead.

But the ability to download a file, press "Print," and have gun parts come out could also tip some judges toward calling gun CAD files functional things and allowing the government to regulate them.