Sentence examples for the word's function from inspiring English sources

And because "purpose" is one of those notions that originalists disdain, Kagan, in another footnote, presses her point just a little more sharply: "Contrary to the dissent's view … we simply recognize that a court should not interpret each word in a statute with blinders on, refusing to look at the word's function within the broader statutory context".

Less clear, though, is why that's the case -- but in a new paper in the journal PLoS One, psychologist Paul Thibodeau offered a theory: The word's connotation with bodily functions triggers our disgust reflex, reminding us of all the gross things our bodies can do.

We prove that a generator of such a semigroup is linearly bounded by the word length function (see Theorem 1.6).

Maybe the word will function for them as genius did for Duckworth, and provoke a quiet, internal rebellion.

Figure 2 shows the Word Sketch function.

The Word Sketch function can help us get the relations a word has and the salient words in a relation.

That's right: there's no s because the word kilometre functions as an adjective here - and we can't make adjectives plural.

Thus, in Church's proposal, the words 'recursive function of positive integers' can be replaced by the words 'function of positive integers computable by Turing machine'.

Grammatically the word xuan functions as a noun in "Xuanxue".

Surely not just functioning, like in "functioning alcoholic" or "functioning manic depressive". By definition, all the word "functioning" means is to be in operation.

After a system crash, Word's AutoRecover function should kick in and show you the version of the file it saved on its own, which is hopefully newer than the last version you manually saved.