basic function
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbasicandfunction
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basic
adjective
uk/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/us/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/
simple and not complicated, so able to provide the base or starting point from which something ...
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function
noun
uk/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/us/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/
the natural purpose (of something) or the duty (of ...
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(Definition ofbasicandfunctionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thus, this equation represents abasicfunctionapproach.
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The apostrophe is also losing ground in its oldest and mostbasicfunction, indicating omission.
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Thebasicfunctionof a spelling checker is to reject non-words.
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For the divide function and thebasicfunction, this is the leaf level.
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Continence is abasicfunctionthat should be maintained in healthy elderly people, regardless of age.
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Theirbasicfunctionis to oversee the functioning of the organization.
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The resulting, compact description is called thebasicfunctionof the design.
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It is strange that thisbasicfunctionis not available to the user.
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Thebasicfunctioncopies the input into both positions of a pair.
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Pragmatically, thebasicfunctionof an utterance is to update the ' information state ' of the hearer.
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A deficit in the seeminglybasicfunctionof attention is manifest in humans as unilateral neglect.
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And similarly in predicate logic: any standard text shows how one starts with certainbasicfunctionsymbols and predicate symbols.
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Thebasicfunctionof a web server is to service requests for files on the local file system.
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Thebasicfunctionis decomposed by the design team into several functions, which collectively per form the function.
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Theirbasicfunctionis to land armour.
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Ourbasicfunctionis to legislate.
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Aside from thebasicfunction, the concrete function consists of a composition of a calculation on the data and a type adaptation.
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This had some risks because, although they were manipulated, elections maintained theirbasicfunction of providing the country with political representatives.
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The first, more tentative, is that you know can occur in close proximity to the verb "know" in itsbasicfunction.
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We suggest that the walls served the morebasicfunctionof differentiating private residential spaces from each other and from communal spaces.
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If we are to break out of the deadlock just described, we shall have to marshal arguments that go beyond a focus on law'sbasicfunction.
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Thebasicfunctionof the press section of a paper-making machine, and the process we wish specifically to study, involves squeezing of the paper between two rollers.
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In contrast to structuralist and generativist linguists who assume that denotation - "straight" reference - is thebasicfunctionof language, he argues for the ontological priority of connotation.
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Our intuition is the opposite, that it would be surprising if such integration were not found to be abasicfunctionof multiple brain areas underlying cognition.
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