Sentence examples for what something does from inspiring English sources

The guiding principle of value-engineering is an analysis of function ie, what something does, not what it is.

People care about what something does more than its speeds and feeds (the technology).

They also are not equivalent epistemologically because we may know what something does but not what it is for and, alternatively, what something is for but not how it accomplishes this.

Biological practice harbors at least four separate meanings of function (Wouters 2003, 2005): activity (what something does), causal role (contribution to a capacity), fitness advantage or viability (value of having something), and selected effect or etiology (origination and maintenance via natural selection).

What these phrases really mean is "what something is about", "what something does", "how it happens" and so on, but the phrases are shorthand, condensing a lot of meaning into a noun and a couple of prepositions.

Rather than ask what something did, he would click on it, see what happened, and then adjust.

Only an activity interpretation ('what something does') accents the function itself, apart from its specific contribution to a systemic capacity and position in a larger context.

What if something doesn't look, smell, or feel right?

What if something doesn't have to automatically occur as scarce?

But, I thought, what if something doesn't fit?" said Scott.

In this way, being a person is a matter of what something can do, rather than what something is.