Taylor Fritz

If I'm winning a lot and going deep in a tournament, I don't do a lot of heavy workouts. I'll instead do a lot of short sessions where we focus on functional exercises, with the matches obviously being the major workout for each day.

American Tennis Player

Greg Rucka

If someone arrives, fully functional yet a tabula rasa, how does their environment influence, educate, even mold them? And if that is a nurture question, then where does that character's nature fit in? How does that manifest?

American Writer

Jennifer Hyman

I don't think of careers from a functional perspective or from a subject matter perspective. I think of careers as, how do you like spending the time in your day? What makes you happiest? What are you most passionate about?

American Businesswoman

Jeffrey C. Hall

A functional biological clock has three components: input from the outside world to set the clock, the timekeeping mechanism itself, and genetic machinery that allows the clock to regulate expression of a variety of genes.

American Scientist

Walter Rudolf Hess

Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.

Swiss Scientist

Noah Feldman

The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.

American Author

Santiago Calatrava

The two most important functional aspects to be fulfilled in a transportation facility are ease of wayfinding and easy orientation.

Spanish Architect

Phil Elverum

My daughter is like a tether back to the functional world, and I'm aware of how helpful that is.

American Musician

Jay Griffiths

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

British Author

Charles Eames

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

American Designer

Expresses that something is in working order and ready for use.

Proper Operation

Highlights the importance of usefulness over aesthetics in items or designs.

Practical Use

Used in a specialized context to discuss how parts of a system serve a purpose.

Technical Context

Refers to health conditions that impair function without physical damage.

Medical Meaning

Indicates that something can perform its task once again, often through repair or upgrade.

Restored Ability

 where the island was literally covered in penguins and now you go to the same spot and you hardly see a penguin in the picture. We are currently at a level that we are actually calculating whether it should be listed as critically endangered. There are predictions that the species might be at least functionally extinct in certain areas by 2035.

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 need the caffeine but you can't really drink it you know what what are you doing thinking about that is how you might drink this anyway because it's functional it's fascinating but there's nothing delightful about it you don't connect with it you don't get excited about it and so it sounds like things

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 as more species face critical endangerment or functional extinction, it’s also an arena for big do we have a responsibility to try to bring species back from the brink, especially when human actions brought them there in the first place? Are there limits to the effort we should expend

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 And over the course of development, a legion of osteoblasts reinforce the skeleton that protects our organs, allows us to move, produces blood cells and more. But this initial building process alone is not enough to make bones strong and functional. If you took a bone built this way,

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 For example, watching someone do something physical, like knitting or putting on lipstick, can help you do those same actions more accurately. Neuroimaging studies using fMRI, functional magnetic resonance imaging, show us that when we seem someone yawn or even hear their yawn,

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 and the dearth of functional white blood cells impairs the immune system, increasing the risk of infections. To restore the normal function of the blood, leukemic cells have to be eliminated. But because leukemias are not solid tumors, they can't be removed surgically.

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 Worldwide, about one to three percent of adults experience the broad range of symptoms that indicate bipolar disorder. Most of those people are functional, contributing members of society, and their lives, choices, and relationships aren't defined by the disorder,

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 for generating the motivation for movement. And it disables that part. And what that means is the cockroach is fully functional, all of its muscles work but it cannot generate the will to move on its own. Instead it takes its queues from the wasp.

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 What is a functional neurosurgeon? It's a doctor who is trying to improve a neurological function through different surgical strategies. You've certainly heard of one of the famous ones called deep brain stimulation,

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 Intercellular communication also slows, ultimately undermining the body's functional ability. There's a lot we don't yet understand about aging. Ultimately, does longer life as we know it come down to diet, exercise,

Functional

Working or operating properly.

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Designed to be useful or practical rather than attractive.

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Related to the function or purpose of something.

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Relating to an illness or condition that affects the way something works, but does not involve physical damage.

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Able to perform a specified action or activity.

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