| 单词 | function |
| 例句 | “And it requires his strict mental guidance for its proper function.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “The spells that make the attic impenetrable function only if it is occupied by children. Without children, or with adults in the room, the barriers become ineffectual.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z But if all people understood and practiced God’s truth, the function of the doctor would be a lot different than it is today. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He had been employed at the beginning, before any records were kept, and actually functioned as an engineer though he drew a janitor's pay. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He attended school functions and the girls' sporting events as he could, but his opportunities to mingle were limited, and the presence of his security detail was never subtle. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But if a mutation disrupts the function of an enzyme, then the normal gene must specify the information to make the normal enzyme. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This was their first time at a public function since he took sick. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Aural transmission also enhances brain function since memorization is essential, along with mental mapping of melodies and rhythms. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Victim services and outreach became critical components of the prosecutorial function. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The Audubon Ballroom, between Broadway and St. Nicholas Avenue, on the south side of West 166th Street, is a two-story building frequently rented for dances, organization functions, and other affairs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “A neurologist does a lot more than test for brain tumors. If Mia’s problem is real and not in her imagination, then a neurologist will be able to test her brain functions.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Impossible if the water-wheel driven by the engine is also going to function as the paddle which powers the boat through the water. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Brains are pretty much illegal. Only biodigital enhancement up to forty-nine percent is allowed to restore some lost function and that’s it.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z And the Palace Flophouse and Grill began to function. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Some spent so long outside of their own heads that they couldn’t function right when they finally had to return their own. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Gene, protein, function, and fate were strung in a chain: one chemical alteration in one base pair in DNA was sufficient to “encode” a radical change in human fate. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you come back when you’re ready to behave like a functioning member of society.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Fiction back then had a kind of documentary function; it was one of the places Americans went to learn about how other Americans lived. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z A thin, light-skinned African American woman dressed in a beautifully tailored suit, she was soft-spoken and strikingly serene, with a steady brown-eyed gaze and an impressive grasp of how the city functioned. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z With DNA too, Watson and Crick realized, the form of the molecule had to be intrinsically linked to function. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z By such lessons did I become acclimated to scientific calculation in even the meanest function, so learning the secrets of tare and gross. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Even if in New Orleans this machinery was sometimes slow, or poorly engineered, generally it functioned. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z But this confuses the grammatical category “adjective” with the grammatical function “modifier.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Because mass incarceration is officially colorblind, it seems inconceivable that the system could function much like a racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Every cell, and every organism, needs information to carry out its physiological function—but where does that information come from? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The Slabs functions as the seasonal capital of a teeming itinerant society—a tolerant, rubber-tired culture comprising the retired, the exiled, the destitute, the perpetually unemployed. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Although known for more than 60 years, these were formerly dismissed as cellular elements of unknown and probably unimportant function. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We advocated the creation of a multiparty negotiating conference to set up the interim government and set out the guiding principles for the functioning of a constituent assembly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the kind of garden-variety segregation that over the years blacks had learned to tolerate, if not to accept, in order to function in their daily lives. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The agreement permitted Catholics to practice their faith, but it forbade activities that the Nazis considered to be functions of the state. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z For Morgan, the principal mystery of organismal biology was not the gene but genesis: How did “units of heredity” enable the formation of animals and maintain the functions of organs and organisms? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z When that wind blew, the simplest of devices—from lucifer matches to lantern-slides—would no longer function. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Without my camera or a functioning phone, I look out the door, etching the scene in my mind. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He’s so cute, my lung function feels like it dropped another 10 percent. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z It was amazing that he had any motor functions at all, considering the trauma his spinal column had suffered. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The arrangement is that of an ecosystem, with the operation of each part being governed by the state and function of all the other parts. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “My lung function is down to thirty-five percent,” I say as I turn the camera back to me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 1014 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Of the higher brain functions, some—reading, writing, speaking—seem to be localized in particular places in the cerebral cortex. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Many jockeys’ bodies could not function under the strain. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “First thing I did was lock out that function. Don’t worry.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The atomism of Democritus, Epicurus and Lucretius implied that the universe is made up of building blocks that function through their size, shape and solidity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But in the case of Connectors, their ability to span many different worlds is a function of something intrinsic to their personality, some combination of curiosity, self- confidence, sociability, and energy. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagined them just shutting off like factory machines at the end of a shift: functioning, purposeful, and then just out. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He pulls out his phone and keys numbers rapidly into the calculator function. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The “action” of a gene is described in mechanistic terms: genes encode chemical messages to build proteins that ultimately enable form and function. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Under “normal” conditions, they argue, state institutions are able to normalize the organization and enforcement of the prevailing racial order, and the system functions relatively automatically. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He was playing, working, networking, visiting, strategizing—all without skipping a function, getting confused, or stopping to think. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Frank Millet, director of functions, meanwhile stepped up his own efforts to promote the fair and arranged an increasingly exotic series of events. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In spite of their different attitudes, hopes, and goals, they gradually— though neither could have explained how—reached a functioning detente. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Recall from chapter 4 that grammatical categories like adjective are not the same thing as grammatical functions like modifier and complement. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Ever since, Frank had been stumbling around in a daze, barely able to function. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Categories, functions, and meanings have to be ascertained empirically, by running little experiments such as substituting a phrase whose category you don’t know for one you do know and seeing whether the sentence still works. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Thanks to Anorak's Almanac, I now thought of it as a normal bodily function, as necessary and natural as sleeping or eating. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The leaves’ appetite for the sun, as testified by their abundance, their breadth and their superchlorophyll greenness, made me suspect that the trees had primarily an energy-gathering function. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Evidently my function in life is to strike fear into the hearts of those who love me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The Haudenosaunee people today retain a fully functioning confederacy, similar to what they had before European arrival. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Not only will they look different when written on a staff, but they will have different functions within a key and different relationships with the other notes of a piece of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Beyond these rudimentary details, nothing was known about the structure or function of DNA and RNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Anatole had already tried to explain to us the societal function of our church, during that fateful dinner that ended in a shattered plate. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z My cognitive functions, which had been marginal before, instantly went into a nosedive. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I don’t think she could function without my father. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z For the first time in my life 1 have met the system face-to-face, fully determined to function within its context as an observer and critic in disguise, so to speak. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Gates had to be unlocked for the prison to function smoothly— and then, at the right moment, to be locked again. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Next he organized these functions at other theaters and received regular commissions from each. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Arms are as capricious as the desert, and, if they are not used, the next time they might not function. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Proteins ultimately enabled structure and function—bringing genes to life. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The function of this court as is the function of the court in any other country is to enforce law and order and to enforce the laws of the state within which it functions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The radio beacon had been functioning all day, and they had received confirmation signals from the ship. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Chamberlain sat for a long moment silently trying to function. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the better she functions, the better a singer she is, the more I am needed. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z How did they function normally in a world totally ruled by signs? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It is the form of hemoglobin, then, that permits its function. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z There already existed a sort of council of elders, called the Areopagus,* which consisted of senior ex-politicians and functioned as an aristocratic court of appeal. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The primary auditory cortex is one of the oldest and first developed areas of the human brain, suggesting that recognizing timbre is an extremely important function in human evolution. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The tavern had served three functions: saloon, inn, and post office. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your function has to be different now. You have to adjust. To save time. That’s very important.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It seemed that the very organic functions of his body had altered; and when he realized why, when he understood the cause, he could not chew the food. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z When the Soviet Union collapsed, the subsidies ended, and North Korea’s centrally planned economy stopped functioning. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z There was no omnidirectional treadmill, because the room itself served that function. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Normally any conversation that includes the phrase “bodily functions” and me in the same sentence would have me burning with embarrassment. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The compass was still gyrating loosely, but the altimeter was functioning accurately, as far as he could judge, and showed them to be floating about a thousand feet above the seashore and parallel with it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm X toured Clay about in Harlem, and in other places, functioning, he said, as Clay’s “friend and religious advisor.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was smaller than the Kidwells’, and, moreover, he shared it with a wife, three active children, and a perpetually functioning television set. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It was her brain that wasn’t functioning properly. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Musicians tend to have greater word memory and more complex neural brain patterning, as well as greater organizational and higher-order executive functioning. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Or “Look! There’s Renee Albert in a bikini. But please try to keep your mind on algebraic functions.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The person doing the marrying, referred to by the one-word phrase Oedipus, has the function “subject.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Large societies can function economically only if they have a redistributive economy in addition to a reciprocal economy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At first he tries to eat all of everything, but as the meal progresses he finds he must forgo some things to keep his appetite and his taste buds functioning. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Furniture was standard throughout the community: practical, sturdy, the function of each piece clearly defined. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z He went to a doctor and requested a cursory, nonintrusive examination, but was told that only a blood test would enable the doctor to evaluate his kidney function. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z According to a provocative insight by Paul MacLean, the higher functions of the brain evolved in three successive stages. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing. Nothing at all. It’s just my function as Co-ordinator to be curious.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Next to that is the coat room, which contains a barely functioning microwave oven and a refrigerator that won’t stay closed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Depending on each person’s acclimatization and physiological makeup, we would still be able to function above the South Col—but not well, and not for long. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He was glad to be free of the endless female biologic functions for a while. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There would be nothing unusual about people sharing a phone when most of the city’s landlines had ceased to function. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Near the lower edge of town I located the Khumbu Lodge, pushed aside the blanket that functioned as a front door, and found my teammates drinking lemon tea around a table in the corner. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Spares usually came to games with their employers because they couldn’t function without their assistants, but were relegated to the farthest, most uncomfortable seats. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Indeed, the stigma of criminality functions in much the same way that the stigma of race once did. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Still other grammatical functions can be put to work in identifying other roles. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The process of marking black youth as black criminals is essential to the functioning of mass incarceration as a racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Music creates a general sense of well being, while creating a positive environment in which to learn, create, and function. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The regularity of their number system also means that Asian children can perform basic functions, such as addition, far more easily. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It doesn’t sit well with me, how much our society needs Erudite to function. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He carried out his functions like a sleepwalker, ignored whole rows of garbage cans. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Deep inside is the oldest part, the brainstem, which conducts the basic biological functions, including the rhythms of life—heartbeat and respiration. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Again, we’re used to considering fever as a “symptom of disease,” as if it developed inevitably without serving any function. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My higher brain functions have mostly shut down. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Like all CFers, I was born terminal. Our bodies make too much mucus, and that mucus likes to get into our lungs and cause infections, making our lung function de-teri-orate.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z His mind functioned without flaw, trying to calculate his surroundings and predicament. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z As a consequence, I must sometimes appear at public functions where I am lauded as a saviour of the public health. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And, finally, worked his precise mechanical mind over the highest function of the robot world—the solutions of problems in judgment and ethics. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “I rushed over right after with a couple of my best researchers to have a look at the damage...and there just wasn’t any. The ball was in pristine condition, its magic functioning normally.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z In fact, mathematicians started analyzing and classifying the points where a function blows up: singularities. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He was a real swimmer, understood everything about the movements of arms and legs and breathing, understood how a body functioned while it was in the water. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z He said, “You can monitor her feed function.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “The research shows you can take older people who aren’t functioning well and make them cognitively younger through this training,” Earl Miller, a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told me. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z And every week we waste, more of my lung function wastes away too. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Barack, for his part, had spent plenty of time listening to laid-off factory workers, young military veterans trying to manage lifelong disabilities, mothers fed up with sending their kids to poorly functioning schools. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She had been brought up to follow rules, to believe that the proper functioning of the world depended upon her compliance, and follow them—and believe—she did. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, Budgie does not serve the same functions for me, and on Sunday I decide to seek out my own kind. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z According to that argument, we can tell that the universe has a creator because only an external agent could have designed and constructed it so that its different parts serve their specific functions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Its function is to keep the head warm and protect it against ultraviolet radiation. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z She did not know that things had come to this; in Nsukka, life was insular and the news was unreal, functioning only as fodder for the evening talk, for Odenigbo’s rants and impassioned articles. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Colin Maclaurin and Brook Taylor, perhaps the best British mathematicians in the era of isolation from the Continent, discovered how to use calculus to rewrite functions in a totally different form. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They never volunteered for anything; they never showed up to school functions. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z And, in one cage, a no longer functioning false animal, a chicken. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z This transient nature of the transmitting chemical is necessary to the normal functioning of the body. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He created the new post of director of functions and assigned Frank Millet to the job, giving him wide latitude to do what he could to boost attendance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z You think too much beforehand and you get too self-conscious and tight and you don’t function well. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But a little later it was reminding her a good deal less of that innocuous function. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z We were supposed to be attending firm functions together. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But there were also problems with his kidneys, which were not functioning properly. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Yossarian shook his head and explained that deja vu was just a momentary infinitesimal lag in the operation of two coactive sensory nerve centers that commonly functioned simultaneously. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z One positive function Schoenberg’s twelve-tone formula fulfilled, though, other than provide for interesting analysis and debate, was to give composers in the twentieth century a challenging structure with which to grapple. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He ran his finger down the functions in the back. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Each protocol had a different function: TCP/IP was the basic plumbing of the Internet, or the basic railroad tracks, on which everything else above it was built and moved around. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z How much of the original song’s function and meaning is included? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z It functioned on an old-fashioned principle: you held it against the bones near your ear and it vibrated singing or talking to you. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “If we had logarithmic tables of all the trigometric functions, you could work any problem in navigation with nothing but addition and subtraction.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the reasons the Globe was such a hip, exclusive club was because it was located in a PvP zone, one where both magic and technology functioned. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z We have met a couple of times at official functions, including, of course, the last few parties. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Every mutant, they noted, was missing a single metabolic function, corresponding to the activity of a single protein enzyme. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A grammatical function identifies not what a word is in the language but what it does in that particular sentence: how it combines with the other words to determine the sentence’s meaning. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Kemp and its progeny serve much the same function as Dred Scott and Plessy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Strapped to a table that tilted back and forth, her heart functions were measured for 30 minutes. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z For example, the above questions cover music theory, analysis, repertoire, and the uses and function of music in culture. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z It was through gene regulation, Monod argued, that cells could achieve their unique functions in time and space. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z There seemed to be no way in which atoms and molecules could somehow spontaneously fall together to create organisms of such awesome complexity and subtle functioning as grace every region of the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Stop trying to eavesdrop and go to bed, Merci. You need 9.25 hours of sleep for proper brain function, you know.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He knew the building well—he’d been to functions there a few times over the years—and he knew how to get there. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Architecture’s parameters are defined by utilitarian function and structural system, but there is almost always an aesthetic component as well, even when it consists of nothing more than a decorative veneer. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z What we fail to appreciate is that our modern institutions function on exactly the same basis. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Along with most of the Virginia dynasty, however, his ascent into the revolutionary elite was not the exclusive function of talent and virtue. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It speeds up communication between the hemispheres and affects language and higher-order brain functioning. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Body mass index is an increasing function of food intake. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This effect surely contributes a non-genetic component to the superior average mental function displayed by New Guineans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The horror of the room, he would later say, sucked all other functions out of him. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As lower minds function, study, or ‘science,’ is concerned with a limited set of various types of things. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Its single functioning arm flailed wildly while its tail and legs thrashed about. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z These units encode messages to build proteins—and the messages and proteins, in turn, enable the form and function of a living organism. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Her body had not performed that function well. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It obviously wasn’t functioning from the old GPS satellites—they’d all been destroyed in the radiation holocaust of the sun flares. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Reggie’s ability to start a new mission, would be “a function of the type of crime, so I believe that if he is convicted of a lesser offense that would be helpful.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She quickly discovered that phone lines at the Teleco building weren’t functioning. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Proteins were known to carry out the bulk of functions in the cell. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The fact that all the functioning parts are of infinitesimal size adds to the miracle. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The most important function of DNA—its capacity to transmit copies of information from cell to cell, and organism to organism—was buried in the structure. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He has, unfortunately, steadily degraded over the last several years despite this augmentation of his brain functions. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Had Galileo belonged to a functioning scientific community, to take just one example, he would have been firmly discouraged from placing his theory of the tides at the centre of his defence of Copernicanism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For thirty years, the ANC had functioned clandestinely in South Africa; those habits and techniques were deeply ingrained. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ever since he'd started jogging, his limbs seemed to function independently from the rest of his body. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Marine models were essential in the early days of research on muscle structure and function, and research on muscle has become a major preoccupation at the MBL. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At worst, they function unabashedly as kleptocracies, transferring net wealth from commoners to upper classes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Sheed checked it, no service—or really any functions at all, the screen was black. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z In the old days, before Riemann saw that the complex plane was really a sphere, functions like 1/x would stump mathematicians. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Lindane, according to medical findings, is stored in significant amounts in the brain and functioning liver tissue and may induce “profound and long lasting effects on the central nervous system.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The entire planet of Frobozz was in a PvP zone, and both magic and technology functioned here, which meant that all bets were off. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Not the least surprising feature of this economic system was that it functioned without money. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Now that I was seeing the Commander on the sly, if only to play his games and listen to him talk, our functions were no longer as separate as they should have been in theory. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z We had been kept in detention and had functioned without our lawyers for more than five months. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Part of his problem was a function of location. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z That is to say that they all but ceased their functioning as ears. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Life...is a chemical incident,” Paul Ehrlich, the chemist, had once said, and biochemists, true to form, had begun to break open cells and characterize the constituent “living chemicals” into classes and functions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I've come a long way from those days when, full of illusion, I lived a public life and attempted to function under the assumption that the world was solid and all the relationships therein. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z This process by which the cell functions as a chemical factory is one of the wonders of the living world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The school allowed it to function by ignoring it completely, pretending it wasn’t there. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When one is concerned with the mysterious and wonderful functioning of the human body, cause and effect are seldom simple and easily demonstrated relationships. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Right now, I’m at fifty percent lung function.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Exposure to these artistic forms develops the inner core of a child, introduces new dimensions of possibilities, and shows the brain a new way of functioning and understanding. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Without a normally functioning liver the body would be disarmed — defenseless against the great variety of poisons that continually invade it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Working plumbing was scarce, and the lack of air-conditioning tormented scientists and engineers trying to function in the baking heat of California’s Central Valley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There is a very good example of the way Connectors function in the work of the sociologist Mark Granovetter. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In his condition he couldn't function without the beneficial influences of his furniture. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z At Fort Hare, we were taught to wear a tie and jacket to a social function of any kind. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mind functioned like a wooden mind, her body moved crookedly like a badly operated marionette, but she went steadily about her business. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z An investigation of an arts infusion program on creative thinking, academic achievement, affective functioning, and arts appreciation of children at three grade levels. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He seemed to possess some kind of authority in the Brotherhood, but his exact function was unclear. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In its versatility and in the indispensable nature of its functions it has no equal. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The shed was full of things he had built, some senseless mechanisms the functions of which were a mystery even to himself now as he looked upon them. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z These noble and selfish functions are inextricably linked, although some governments emphasize much more of one function than of the other. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Nan’s laptop lay on the coffee table, and I flipped it open to use the store locator function on the SmartMart website. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I can think of several creatures that seem designed for this function, if you will accept a microbestiary, and if you are looking for metaphors. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As for the rest of the children, half of them learned to adjust their functions to the teachers’ ideas of such things and the other half became chronic pants-wetters. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Although neurologists are still exploring how the auditory cortex functions, they now believe that music processing is actually much more complex then initially imagined, and involves many more parts of the brain than previously thought. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Molecular biology did not drive out older, fixed views about the intimate details of cell function. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Prognosis: Correspondence between you and your sister cannot serve anything but a purely social function. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z They passed on from there to a Travel Hall, where they saw the car covered with tiles, and the functioning Rube Goldberg chicken device and the rusting Burma Shave ads on the wall. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z As an eight-year-old Catholic, I learned the names and functions of all seven sacraments. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z To see my solution working, functioning, on the screen. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The burns so scarred and disfigured his face and neck that he needed multiple surgeries to regain basic functioning. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Lillian Meecham had been radiant, a dazzling partner who added charm to a family so drilled and weighted down with the responsibility of obedience that they seemed to function and move together like a machine. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The head functions like an internal GPS system, and the position relative to the head and the tail gives each segment a unique “address” in the embryo. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z After that we spent months at the Head Office in London learning how the great company functioned from the inside. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z My sister did not function well at 4:30 in the morning, which is when we pulled into the parking garage at Portland International Airport. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I knew students in college then barely able to read, students unable to grasp the function of a sentence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, this mathematical description has no intuitive meaning; it is all but impossible to visualize what these wave functions are. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z To “see” DNA is to immediately perceive its function as a repository of information. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The earth would continue to function as normal, just as the sky did, but Gaia was now so dispersed and powerless that she could never again form a consciousness. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Two kids with barely functioning lungs walking two miles one-way to go look at lights? Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z This was the first time he had admitted the double function of the fire. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The rule provided a way to figure out the true value of a mathematical function that goes to 0/0 at a point. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She stayed at the function for all of one hour, then bolted. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I know that sex isn’t evil, that it’s a normal part of being a functioning mammal, so why do I feel like I’ve done something wrong? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Its function was to produce ice, store the perishable goods of exhibitors and restaurants, and operate an ice rink for visitors wishing to experience the novelty of skating in July. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z That genes could be regulated—i.e., turned “on” and “off” by particular cues—deepened the understanding of how genes function in time and space to specify the unique features of distinct cells. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was when all the rules by which the traditional economy had functioned were broken and remade. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It was ironic that given his communication difficulties, Donald functioned as a human telegraph, relaying messages up and down the coast. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The extra stuff that plumps out a phrase may include additional grammatical functions which distinguish the various roles in the story identified by the head. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Shin’s success in crawling through an electric fence designed to kill seems to have been a function of luck. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z More than any other mark, the comma draws our attention to the mixed origins of modern punctuation, and its consequent mingling of two quite distinct functions: 1. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z The Pickett estate wasn’t in a nice neighborhood, exactly, but it was so gigantic that it functioned as a neighborhood unto itself. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z This useful function is of course lost where chemical weed killers have been used. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “How did you,” I asked Andre, “function in such an environment?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Virginia Tucker before her, Dorothy Vaughan now presided over an appendix, still attached to the research operation but whose function had attenuated over time. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z None of these tasks requires zero; civilizations functioned perfectly well for millennia before its discovery. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Impossibly, the water in the bathroom was still functioning. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I knew that if I let my mind go there, I would not be able to function. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I thought I was dying, too, and yet there I stood, battered and bruised but more or less fully functioning. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z In late 1791 the War Department put Major General “Mad” Anthony Wayne in charge of restructuring the army units under his command so they could function as irregular forces in Ohio. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “The regulatory entomologists ... function as prosecutor, judge and jury, tax assessor and collector and sheriff to enforce their own orders,” said Connecticut entomologist Neely Turner. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Her phone was probably buried in her pocket but set on the speaker function—that was why everything sounded so muffled. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The sleep function had kicked in and the set turned itself off. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I think they felt that getting children into foster homes was a legitimate part of their function, and the result would be less troublesome, however they went about it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The various techniques let researchers understand which brain regions control what functions, and how tissues and tasks get impacted by different activities, say, when a person tries to multitask. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It was just a failure of the traditional grammarians to distinguish categories from functions that blinded them to the realization that a preposition could take a clause, not just a noun phrase, as its object. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z We could hear the car several blocks before it actually hove into sight, because it was equipped with an exhaust whistle that was allowed to function as a matter of routine. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z But they lack personality; that is, their functions are extremely limited.—Must be, since they are so specialized. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The only sign o£ anything functioning is the flashing orange button. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It says that behavior is a function of social context. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the last two decades, genetic technologies have advanced so rapidly that we can decipher how several of these genes operate in time and space to enable these complex functions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z So much for having friends. up, Dr. Golan’s function seemed mainly to consist of writing prescriptions. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I’d been there before: Students were invited there for various functions. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z In feudal times an ineptness with sword and spear headed a young man for the church: in the Hamilton family Joe’s inability properly to function at farm and forge headed him for a higher education. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And heaven help the sleepy traveler trying to set the alarm clock in his hotel room who must interpret “alarm function” and “second display mode.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In most of physics and chemistry the concepts of “ultimate cause,” “purpose,” and “function” are meaningless, yet they are essential to understanding living systems in general and human activities in particular. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In part, that was because the Mutual, operating in the vacuum of the segregated and underdeveloped South, quickly assumed a range of functions and responsibilities far beyond those of a mere insurance company. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z "Can Hermes function for five hundred and thirty-three days beyond the scheduled mission end?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I went on missions to inspect fallen trees that needed removing, talked to neighborhood pastors who were upset about traffic or garbage collection, and often represented the mayor’s office at community functions. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Hazel was supposed to defeat her, somehow—though she could not even function in the real world. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z This description of physiology—as the exquisite matching of form and function, down to the molecular level—dates back to Aristotle. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z At least now I’m filled with confidence that the fight function exists within me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “I certainly hope it isn’t snowing up north. My system simply will not function under those conditions. And please watch out for Greyhound Scenicruisers along the way. They’ll demolish a toy like this.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is the clergyman’s function to help—at least with advice—those who wished to help themselves. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z On these occasions, the regent was surrounded by his amapbakathi, a group of councilors of high rank who functioned as the regent’s parliament and judiciary. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That response is predictable because most people assume that racism, and racial systems generally, are fundamentally a function of attitudes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Epidemics are a function of the people who transmit infectious agents, the infectious agent itself, and the environment in which the infectious agent is operating. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Molecules with specialized functions eventually joined together, making a kind of molecular collective—the first cell. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Derek would, of course, have to go to the bathroom—his body functions would keep going. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Partly it’s because my own normal work is sedentary, so that the housework I do—in dabs of fifteen minutes here and thirty minutes there—functions as a break. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The country was a single body, with each organ serving its function—to say that Pharaoh exploited the people was therefore as nonsensical as saying that his head “exploited” his hands. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Since the chemical was acidic, its name was later modified to nucleic acids—but the cellular function of nuclein had remained mysterious. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Mostly, I didn't understand how my sister and cousin could function in their current state. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z At some tasks that one might reasonably suppose to reflect aspects of brain function, such as the ability to form a mental map of unfamiliar surroundings, they appear considerably more adept than Westerners. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “My lord,” said King Ogunwe, “may we know whether the Lady is now part of this commanding council? If so, what is her function? If not, should she not be taken elsewhere?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z His function was to come along for moral support. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm not sure it will function properly, but if it does, the computer will be a gift to Dell from me. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The mechanism is there, and there is no doubt that it is already capable of functioning, even though the total yield thus far seems to consist largely of bits. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She said this with no love in her eye, coldly, as though she were explaining a mathematical function. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “She knows that would be illogical. Without each faction, society doesn’t function, because each faction trains its members for particular jobs. What she wants is control.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z His sons and daughters lined up like a squad, shiny as new dimes, performed their minor functions well. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This is because, when liver function is disturbed, the cholinesterase level drops below normal. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z With the women strapped to tilt tables with their heads angled down at 65 degrees, a cardiologist checked their heart functions as an electrocardiogram recorded information every five minutes. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Because how do people even function like this? Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Racial animus is a predictable and recurring feature of racial caste systems, but it is not necessary for the system to function if there is widespread racial indifference. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z All of these expressions, but especially 0/0, could take on any value you desire them to have, depending on the functions you put in the numerator and denominator. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Donovan’s voice was muffled, with pauses for mastication, “He’s gathering data on electronic stream functions. We’re heading for a storm, looks like.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z It was as if he had grown so accustomed to the chaos of his mother’s previous lives that he did not know how to function when a family worked as it should. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The circus functions in approximations more than exacting details. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And there are multiple DNA polymerases, with slightly different functions, found in cells. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Roz could feel her Survival Instincts—the part of her computer brain that made her want to avoid danger and take care of herself so she could continue functioning properly. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “I’m all of a sudden interested in the functions of government.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A small sign in the hotel lobby announced that the Washington Room was taken that night by a private function, although there was no information as to what kind of function this might be. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I was no longer capable of functioning in the outside world. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z In fact, he was directing an organization that functioned very like a secret service, which not many years before had been part of the security and intelligence services of the Crown. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Knowing the original function of the song is an additional way of digging deeper into the culture. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “There are bathrooms on this car for a reason. We can’t expect all of them to stop having bodily functions, can we?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The trip had three functions: as a lecture tour, an opportunity for more fund-raising, and an introduction of the Lawrences’ first child, seven-month-old John Eric, to his Blumer grandparents in New Haven. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z After all, Hamilton reasoned, the government would not automatically cease functioning if an enemy army captured the capital. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The word was created to mark a function; it was an abstraction. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It surprised him that it was possible for his body to return to what it had been and for his mind to function with permanent lucidity. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt toward an individual than toward an organization. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In the same way, and perhaps quite unknown to us, other plants that we ruthlessly eradicate may be performing a function that is necessary to the health of the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Setting music in stone, as it were, so that it stayed the same for each performance, year in and year out, would have struck them as a contradiction of music’s function and enjoyment. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He proposed that every feature in a human—height, weight, intelligence, beauty—was a composite function generated by a conserved pattern of ancestral inheritance. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Well, the black man has functioned in the white man’s world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z To be sure, it had to be shared with landless and impecunious whites, but this was not a complete disadvantage since these whites functioned as a buffer class to absorb the shocks of race conflict. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She could hear the noise, with her own perfectly functioning ears, escaping her perfectly functioning mouth. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z It was amazing that his legs and feet worked, because his brain didn’t seem to be functioning. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He had to keep wiping the sweat off his hands as he controlled the screen functions of the workpad. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It is important to remember, therefore, that the fat-soluble insecticides become stored in individual cells, where they are in position to interfere with the most vital and necessary functions of oxidation and energy production. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I continued on my job, where I functioned as the shop chairman of the union which I had helped to organize, though my election as shop chairman had been bitterly opposed by the party. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z If a mutation inactivated even one function, the mold would be unable to grow—unless the missing ingredient was supplied back into the broth. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The changes are made in orderly fashion, step by step, each step directed and controlled by an enzyme of so specialized a function that it does this one thing and nothing else. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It perpetuates the myth that the primary function of the system is to keep our streets safe and our homes secure by rooting out dangerous criminals and punishing them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A unit of heredity must carry the code to build a metabolic or cellular function specified by a protein. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It may be our biological function to build a certain kind of Hill. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after, we pulled into one of the few functioning drive- in movie theaters in the country and all got out to get some food. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Dr. Gazzaley says that attention is also “absolutely critical for all high-level functioning,” a cornerstone of what it means to be human. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z No one would confuse the women who used mechanical calculators to process research data with the room-sized electronic devices that performed the same function. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “I remember one professor at Stanford who confirmed the concept and its function but said he wanted to be invited back when we got to an ‘aesthetically refined prototype,’” Dowell remembers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z In Wacquant’s words: “Racial division was a consequence, not a precondition of slavery, but once it was instituted it became detached from its initial function and acquired a social potency all its own.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But Smithers had also built an audio function into the machine. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z It seemed as if what the old king had called “beginner’s luck” were no longer functioning. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m always using the search function on my computer to find may in my work, because it is often wrong and should be might. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, it was often hard to see what the function of management was, other than to exact obeisance. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Now we can see why the word Sophocles’ shows up in the tree with the category “noun” and the function “determiner” rather than “adjective.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Indeed, armed with microscopes, cell biologists had become accustomed to a cellular world in which visible structures performed identifiable functions within cells. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The men tended to be taut and well built regardless of age, dressed in beige or gray pants the color of the plains and cowboy boots that were worn for function. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z —He’s got a good job workin’ at Proctor and Gamble, where his main function, as far as I can tell, is kissin’ up to white people. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Clarkebury functioned more like a military school than a teacher training college. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if Jed had been some kind of link they all shared, and now that it had been severed, his followers were confused and unable to function. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Study to look at possible benefits of musical training on brain function in young and old. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z They need it to learn, to feel safe and connected, and to function economically, socially, and politically in the next century. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t know how I would fare that day, but I prayed my body could function on autopilot. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Daily I had to function as a student, do my homework, and polish my saddle shoes. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The sex hormones are, of course, normally present in the body and perform a necessary growth-stimulating function in relation to the various organs of reproduction. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This shape-acquiring ability allows proteins to execute diverse functions in cells. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Piles of them function as tables, others hang suspended from the ceiling, along with large golden cages holding several live white doves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Under so much physical stress, many women stopped having their periods throughout the war, which meant that even their bodies didn’t seem to be functioning like women’s bodies anymore. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z For a few days, I'll be able to function with unpleasant symptoms of dehydration, but after that I'll deteriorate into helplessness and be dead in a week, tops. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z A gene is more than a set of protein-building instructions, but Beadle and Tatum’s experiments provided a mechanistic basis for a gene’s function. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Tools were produced in diverse and distinctive shapes so modern that their functions as needles, awls, engraving tools, and so on are obvious to us. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Because of how low her lung function is? Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Inward light, understanding and joy, similarly, function as if they were testimony: to Parsons, it is as if they speak to the truth of our beliefs. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “He was shaking, crying, sobbing. He couldn’t function. He could not talk,” Terryl says. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Their model of DNA was not just a pretty picture; the structure predicted the most important features of the function. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “What would you have us do? Our function is managing time, and that’s not important anymore.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “I thought everything might go back to normal. There’s scientific evidence that if we stop using parts of our brains, those sections will eventually cease to function, you know.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The location of the mitochondria within certain cells is eloquent of their function, since they are placed so that energy can be delivered precisely where it is needed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Set her on her side. We are ready to restart organ function.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The only thing that he did as Deputy Mayor was to reduce the Shirriffs to their proper functions and numbers. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z How good people’s decisions are under the fast-moving, high-stress conditions of rapid cognition is a function of training and rules and rehearsal. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z In his view, archaeologists’ main function was to make white people feel good about themselves—an opinion that archaeologists have learned, to their cost, is not Denny’s alone. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If a scientist had been asked what a gene was made of, how it accomplished its function, or where it resided within the cell, there would be few satisfactory answers. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Recent medical research has revealed that DDD does strongly suppress the function of the human adrenal cortex. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Governments must keep some information secret in order to function—but how much secrecy is too much? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They regulate lots of its functions—filtering blood, producing hormones, helping to control blood pressure, and removing waste from the body. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The premise of apartheid was that whites were superior to Africans, Coloureds, and Indians, and the function of it was to entrench white supremacy forever. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, “To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century which I loathe. That was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A platoon of thirty soldiers or even a company of a hundred soldiers can function well on the basis of intimate relations, with a minimum of formal discipline. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Their friendship functioned when they were working, when she was tutoring him or he was finding Fragments for her to study. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Its three integrated computers and most of its housekeeping functions—for example, its temperature-control system—are localized in its middle. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, it looks like they’re the losers because they don’t know how great this class really is many guest speakers and travel to museums and social functions. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “A sensitive, delicately balanced machine that requires his strict mental guidance for its proper function.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z They couldn’t possess cash, cassette players with a record function, toiletries containing alcohol, sneakers worth more than fifty dollars, or more than fourteen newspapers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The new science was thus dependent on a few key technologies which functioned, to use Elizabeth Eisenstein’s phrase, as ‘agents of change’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Their crime was conducting unthinkable research on Jews without consent—sewing siblings together to create Siamese twins, dissecting people alive to study organ function. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Some doctors thought the heart and blood-supply system would become confused by the lack of gravity and would not function properly. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Down in the basement are the functions our remote ancestors mainly depended on— aggression, child-rearing, fear, sex, the willingness to follow leaders blindly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Medical research has only rather recently turned to the functioning of the individual cell in producing the energy that is the indispensable quality of life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z During those chaotic years, as the basic functioning of Kim Jong Il’s government stalled, think tank experts in the West were writing books with doomsday titles such as The End of North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Yes, Butler. Cover. I thought speaking in primal terms would be the quickest route to your cognitive functions. Obviously I was mistaken.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The absence of black fathers from families across America is not simply a function of laziness, immaturity, or too much time watching Sports Center. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The frontal lobe, the executive functions, get so overloaded, so taxed, that there are fewer resources left to make a good decision. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “She’s in with the respiratory therapists right now. They’re running tests to see how her lungs are functioning and whether she can be weaned off the ventilator.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I think every group of friends has a “guy” for each different function — like the “sympathetic guy,” the “funny guy,” the “jock,” the “guy who gets picked on.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Here, in this microcosm, we must look for those factors that somehow shift the marvelously functioning mechanisms of the cell out of their normal patterns. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z What they carried was partly a function of rank, partly of field specialty. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Music listening is, of course, closely related to brain function. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z For a bread mold to grow successfully in minimal media, then, it needed all its metabolic, molecule-building functions to be intact. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The Elders barked orders at him during Council meetings and community functions and after-hours discussions. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z How did that code become transcribed and translated into actual form and function of an organism? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The combination of government and religion has thus functioned, together with germs, writing, and technology, as one of the four main sets of proximate agents leading to history’s broadest pattern. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Our ancestors looked at the elegance of life on Earth, at how appropriate the structures of organisms are to their functions, and saw evidence for a Great Designer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The function of hate, as Sarai saw it, was to stamp out compassion—to close a door in one’s own self and forget it was ever there. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “But it’s a crucial bodily function,” I say. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “We have no conflict of interest; it’s important to me that the Voigt-Kampff test functions, almost as important as it is to you.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “Come off it. It doesn't like or dislike. It just ‘functions.’ Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Most importantly, mine was the Alar and the intricate sygaldry that turned the individual pieces into a functioning handheld sympathy lamp. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Yet their stone tools were still crude by comparison with modern New Guineans’ polished stone axes and were usually not yet made in standardized diverse shapes, each with a clearly recognizable function. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The one closest to me was a face with wide, staring eyes and an open mouth, inside of which was a real, functioning water fountain. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He hops onto it himself, riding in a few circles to make sure everything functions like it’s supposed to. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z But Leo had done his best, rewiring the sphere to carry out two completely different functions. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Mersenne’s community was an informal group which met and exchanged letters, though he expressed a wish to form a proper college that would function mainly through correspondence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In their millions the frog songs seemed to have a beat and a cadence, and perhaps it is the ears’ function to do this just as it is the eyes’ business to make stars twinkle. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Information for a cell to carry out a metabolic function? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The real function of these tests, I decide, is to convey information not to the employer but to the potential employee, and the information being conveyed is always: You will have no secrets from us. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z From what Rowan could see, this girl served no discernible function at the estate. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z We also find that the nouns play and mother are preceded by the words Sophocles’ and his, which have the function “determiner.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A robot, by its very nature, cannot bear to fail its function. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z You might begin at the local beach, which functions as a sort of ganglion. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We cannot expect an exception for the instrumental conditioning of autonomic functions. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, in the symbiotic associations that dominate so much of the life of the sea, there is rarely a question of who is who, even when the combination functions like a single animal. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then imagine the skill required to isolate this particle, to take it apart and analyze its components and determine their highly complex functioning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There may be some laws about this kind of communication, mandating a critical density and mass before it can function with efficiency. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It is hard to imagine any other function for workplace authoritarianism. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The sudden sight of her clean and functioning almost scares me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It was another copy of the photograph of Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford at the Party function in New York, which he had chanced upon eleven years ago and promptly destroyed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z All of these interoperable banking and e-commerce functions flattened the Internet marketplace so radically that even eBay was taken by surprise. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The blind spot is called functional fixity because people get fixated on ah object’s function and forget its physical makeup. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And we can, on occasion, deliberately alter some of these genes to change their functions, thereby resulting in altered human states, altered physiologies, and changed beings. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “No, they didn’t. They disconnected us. They shut down most of the functions. The feed was still on. It’s part of the brain.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Without wisdom I could not fulfill my function of advising the Committee of Elders when they call upon me.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z The carburetor of a Model T is not complicated but it needs all of its parts to function. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A particularly ludicrous example of this potential miscegenation was a 1968 photograph of Pat Nixon dancing with a black man at a White House function. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Only in his work could he find redemption; only in the Corps was this manic quality channeled into a useful function. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When his lab work came back at the end of that day, showing his liver functions at dangerously low levels, Farmer conceded he could no longer tough it out. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “For a few seconds. Suspends its respiration; yours, too, but humans can function without respiring—perspiring?—for a couple of minutes, but the vagus nerve of an andy—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “That last trigonometric function wasn’t as easy as it looked.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Given the capacity to control autonomic functions, modulate brain waves, run cells, why shouldn’t it be possible to employ exactly the same technology to go in precisely the opposite direction? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The building’s broad design and its function had come to him all at once, like a blueprint pulled from a drawer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Police found a gas jet with no apparent function other than to admit gas into the vault. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Winston-Salem’s Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers was a unique organization, with the union hall functioning as the center of a rich cultural and political community. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Martial law enabled the army to assume the functions of arbitrator in the controversy, but no effort at conciliation was made. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Though the president’s brain is dead, his body remains alive and is able to function at a survival level. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z We thought we’d function in Wilmington as we had in New York, catching subways and buses and living off public transportation and the groove of the city. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Their generosity over the years could fill up this entire book, but their lives functioned differently from those of my parents. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Francis saw no reason to understate the power of the helical theory and within several minutes revealed the way Bessel functions gave neat answers. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Those functions and more—every switch, every indicator, every gauge—had to be tested and retested for any whiff of possible failure. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Nearly every cellular function—metabolism, respiration, cell division, self-defense, waste disposal, secretion, signaling, growth, even cellular death—requires proteins. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But Dr. Roland had now begun an informative lecture concerning the care and function of the manifold gasket. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Because agricultural fields are less diverse than natural ecosystems, they cannot perform all their functions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His heart function remained impaired, though improved somewhat. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z We assume that being good at things like calculus and algebra is a simple function of how smart someone is. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z In the last chapter, I talked about how epidemics are, in part, a function of how many people a message reaches, and by that standard McCann was way ahead. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When supernatural beliefs gained those functions and became institutionalized, they were thereby transformed into what we term a religion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s a function of the way humans are constructed. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Reilly sighed and looked at the floor to see whether the baby roach was still around and functioning. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, proteins—diverse, chatty, versatile, capable of assuming Zelig-like shapes and performing Zelig-like functions—were infinitely more attractive as gene carriers. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z And like Jerrie, no one enjoyed the inner ear function test. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z But the correlations do not tell us precisely how population variables function in a chain of cause and effect whose outcome is a complex society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss put it, ancient writing’s main function was “to facilitate the enslavement of other human beings.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In other words, it would allow an illegal organization to continue to function and enable leaders who were banned to continue to lead. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "Were they born that way? Or did you work them so much that their arcana couldn't function anymore?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Sullivan admired both Root and Adler but believed they functioned on a lesser plane. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then we have to adjust the patient’s meds until we get the chemo regimen in balance with the patient’s liver function. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Their main function is to prevent the town's children from going through the opening, into the meadow and beyond. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z As a substitute demonstration, Ernest ordered the device to be dismantled so he could explain the function of each part to the wealthy donor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Now that Papa had become rich, he got invited to a lot of official parties and functions. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z During some of the darkest times, when William could barely function, she quietly “took him to work every morning and put his pen in his hand to get him started.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They would have different arts and social functions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After several decades of research, I have developed a set of functions for music that takes into account the role of neurology and physiology as well as culture in its relationship to music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “No words in any language can pin down exactly how life and death function. The closest we can come is by explaining samsara. Are you familiar with the concept?” asked Wish. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Freddie’s janitor duties at the department store were supplemented by his function as a messenger and package deliverer. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone was yelling, “Got to pull back,” and he shook his head violently, clearing it, and turned back to the guns, letting the mind begin to function. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The same patterns are employed over and over again, conservatively, ingeniously for different functions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Some archaeologists believe that the canal was never meant to function. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Those are the reasons why large societies cannot function with band organization and instead are complex kleptocracies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He issued instructions that anticipated by many years Louis Sullivan’s famous admonition that form must follow function. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z These are “executive function” tasks, meaning they engage the prefrontal cortex, that all-important part of the brain involved in focus. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Yet the nature of many of the chemicals used against insects, rodents, and weeds is such that they may strike directly at this system, disrupting its beautifully functioning mechanism. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A triplet-based code had 64 combinations—enough for all twenty amino acids, with extra ones still left over to specify other coding functions, such as “stopping” or “starting” a protein chain. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Once you join the residents in forgetting about the functioning humans they once were, you can think of them as a band of wizened toddlers at a tea party. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z His mind, temporarily sidetracked, oiled itself and ticked and turned and woke up, functioning. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In the same way, if we destroy an enzyme that functions at any point in the cycle, oxidation ceases. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Zero-g exercise regimens could keep the heart and bones healthy, but none had been devised that would give them full function from Sol 1. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He believed that all human beings possessed this ability, particularly his own family, and that if it did not function well it was simply due to a lack of training. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The kidneys become jammed with blood clots and dead cells, and cease functioning. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She whispered that she’d never lied to her grandma before, but she had told her she had to attend some school function that evening. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a small cell near our large one that functioned as a study, with a chair, desk, and bookshelves, where I could read and write during the day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I will ensure the Collective has nanomeds to keep their bodies functioning, so they can breathe in your clean air, which is of course irrelevant without a healthy pulmonary system.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “They’re watching us in here, too? Are we allowed to use the bathroom privately, or are they surveilling our bodily functions as well?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Luke thought he was repeating everything he said two or three times, but that was okay, because Luke’s brain was functioning so slowly, he needed the extra help. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z “I guess Stew wanted her to look more distinguished or something at his functions. Less artsy-fartsy. So she decided to go gray.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “If she doesn’t have flowers in her hair, she can’t function.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “It serves several purposes. Primarily, it is my connection to the circus, but it also functions as a safeguard of a sort. I neglected the fact that it does not cover those outside the fence.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Why expect one woman to carry out all the functions necessary to the serene running of a household? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet, I am grateful for the little bit that I here add to the knowledge ofthe function of the human mind and ofthe laws governing the artificial increase of human intelligence. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He introduced a voucher system, which at first functioned as a form of credit, but gradually became a substitute for legal tender. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Attempts to quarantine Georgia are unsuccessful, and the new Fixers, whose sole function is to replicate, consume the entire planet in three days, leaving behind nothing but an ocean of gray goo. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z For the entire project to succeed, each individual part of the mission—the hardware, the software, and the human—had to function according to plan. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z By 2002, according to the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, more than 34 million subscribers were using that network for web access, email, and other functions. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The physical structure of the molecule enables its chemical nature, the chemical nature enables its physiological function, and its physiology ultimately permits its biological activity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It is a storehouse of many vitamins, some of which in turn contribute to its own proper functioning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The evolution of a city is like the evolution of the brain: it develops from a small center and slowly grows and changes, leaving many old parts still functioning. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Over time, it should have accumulated mutations, almost all of them tiny alterations in unused DNA that didn't affect the mitochondria’s functions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Toni Morrison’s isn’t functioning as a modifier, which shades the meaning of genius, but as a determiner, which pins down its referent, in the same way that an article like the or this would do. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “In the beginning, their heart rate is 175. They can’t see straight. Then the second or third time, it’s 120, and then it’s 110, and they can function.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z One suggested function of the first gardens of nearly 11,000 years ago was to provide a reliable reserve larder as insurance in case wild food supplies failed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In order to function, all members of a group must know each other intimately. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But chemists do not assign a purpose or function to a collision of two gas molecules, nor do they seek an ultimate cause for the collision. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Still, I was not functioning properly. I suffered several bad dreams last night. I awoke bruised and muttering.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Their importance is also a function of the kinds of people they know. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And just like you we have a function: providing comfort and meaning to the common folk. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Mda believed the Youth League should function as an internal pressure group, a militant nationalistic wing within the ANC as a whole that would propel the organization into a new era. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Doctors had given her pills so she could continue to function, even though her father was broken and her mother was dead. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Because there is a function he must carry out? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Motor activity impaired; general reduction of glandular functioning; accelerated loss of coordination; and strong indications of progressive amnesia. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The doctors claim Frederick retains no memories, that his brain maintains only basic functions, but there are moments when she wonders. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z For the Gamow Bag to function properly, an attendant must continuously inject fresh air into the chamber with a foot pump. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The AC’s off, which we already knew, since we hadn’t hit a single functioning streetlight between home and here. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z They selected and “appointed” certain sticks or stones as tools because they had begun to connect form and function. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In the case of that in that boy, Miss Thistle- bottom got the function wrong, too: it’s determiner, not modifier. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Mathematicians know how to describe them: they are wave functions, solutions to a differential equation called the Schrödinger equation. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “You’ve got it easy—you have all your physical functions working properly. You never have to struggle just to be understood. You think you’re smart because you have a medical degree?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Yet I was required to function at peak every day. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It's because the text-to-speech function on her end has to say everything out loud before she can type back an answer. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And with a couple simple sort functions, I've got their names and addresses and phone numbers isolated in a list. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Your mother will think we can function without her.’ Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z In Steiger’s case, of course, his high connectedness is a function of his versatility as an actor and, in all likelihood, some degree of good luck. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All the men had made the request repeatedly during processing, and had been told that there were no phones functioning. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Not dormant. Off. I mean, completely. They can’t right now. It replaces too many basic functions. It’s tied in to everything.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the Transitional Executive Council began functioning in the new year, some parties opted out. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Together with its grammatical category, verb, we see a label in parentheses for its grammatical function, in this case, head. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Military tribunals weren't supposed to be used when civilian courts were functioning. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z NOTE: The dominant in modal music did not have the harmonic function that the dominant has in tonal music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He knew the government did not really function like the neat little charts in some middle-school civics textbook. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I don’t get invited to cocktail parties or baby showers anymore, or any functions where Hilly will be there. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The old parts are in charge of too many fundamental functions for them to be replaced altogether. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay. To find the first three iterates of this function, here’s what you do....” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Speed heats the brain to a full boil, leaving the mouth to function as a fulminating exhaust pipe. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z They have the ability to destroy enzymes — enzymes that perform necessary functions in the body. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Gaming is more theme than function for the room. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The two questions are identical, of course, and the differing responses are a function of how the question is framed, whether in terms of lives saved or of lives lost. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Something about the function of a clinically trained listener. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s hard to be a fully functioning Arthur when your heart lives in four envelopes. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Magic would function in some zones and not in others. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “We had a function at my school this afternoon. For the debate team, and I was the first speaker.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z But nobody knows why the Nazca made the animal and plant figures, which seem less likely to have a direct function. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “And of course our community can’t function smoothly if people don’t use precise language. You could ask, ‘Do you enjoy me?’ The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Most possible combinations of nucleotides are nonsense: they would cause the synthesis of proteins that perform no useful function. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To Rain, financial matters were a distasteful but necessary private function, like going to the bathroom. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z But these men were struggling to keep their departments functioning and had little spare time to gather information or write reports, even for the leader of the country. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z In his functioning ear, in the radio, in the air. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But the slow accretion of new functions permits the city to work more or less continuously through the centuries. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was bound to come eventually, anyway. You see, you two have lost your function.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The system operates through our criminal justice institutions, but it functions more like a caste system than a system of crime control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If, as I believe, the urge to make a kind of music is as much a characteristic of biology as our other fundamental functions, there ought to be an explanation for it. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He extracted cube roots and integrated functions of varying complexity. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z That is only natural, just as it is natural for a man whose life function is the making of money to make money out of a war. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He finally thinks I’m a fully functioning umbrella. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z If you flew your technology-based starship into a zone where technology didn’t function, your engines would fail the moment you crossed the zone border. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z All of this awareness depends on a basic grasp of what grammatical categories are, how they differ from functions and meanings, and how they fit into trees. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Outside of group functions, they rarely talked to each other at school. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z A substance that is not a carcinogen in the ordinary sense may disturb the normal functioning of some part of the body in such a way that malignancy results. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Languages also have grammatical functions whose job is not to distinguish the cast of characters but to pipe up with other kinds of information. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z To us today, it is tempting to ask why societies with early writing systems accepted the ambiguities that restricted writing to a few functions and a few scribes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “And for another thing there’s no way of knowing if you would go back to the same mental level. There might be regression to an even more primitive level of functioning.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z What were genes made of, and how did they function? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He gave up; the false cat had ceased functioning, so evidently the short—if that was what ailed the thing—had finished off the power supply and basic drive-train. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z There is something evocative in the idea that the material used to write code gave rise to the word itself: form became function. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The COD served an important symbolic function for Africans; blacks who had come into the struggle because they were antiwhite discovered that there were indeed whites of goodwill who treated Africans as equals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Why are clean pans more important than a functioning fuse box? The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I’d rather leave all my automatic functions with as much autonomy as they please, and hope for the best. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The society of Gethen, in its daily functioning and in its continuity, is without sex. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s remarkable how a stereotype functions as an actual trap. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In classical texts, it was used to mark dropped letters, as in t’cius for “tertius”; and when English printers adopted it, this was still its only function. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z This function makes art especially significant and, hence, worthy of our attention. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Sam hugged her close, saying, “There, there ...” It made no sense that Sam’s body was functioning in any capacity. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I’m surprised my tear ducts still function at all. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Well, the black man has functioned in the white man’s world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z One very useful function of natural plant communities — now pretty generally stigmatized as “weeds” — is to serve as an indicator of the condition of the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Manya took care of me during the first nightmarish days of blind panic when my mind collapsed and would not function. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z And then you have to continue to function. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Most of the time I functioned on autopilot and moved through my schedule with practiced determination. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The venture had three goals: to orbit a manned spacecraft around the Earth, to investigate man’s ability to function in space, and to recover both men and spacecraft safely. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It almost makes me want to draw a pink triangle and then measure the angles and sides and figure out the functions. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Running system agent software was a little like having a virtual personal assistant—one that also functioned as a voice-activated interface with your computer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It had its own way of life which was perceived by many to enable the facility to function in spite of departmental guidelines. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There must be ways of putting nucleic acids together that will function far better—by any criterion we choose—than any human being who has ever lived. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a healthy symbiotic relationship, for the Research Corporation would function as Berkeley’s patent agent, and the university would become one of the corporation’s most important beneficiaries. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Bitter often joked to Jam that her father moved like a functioning disaster, clumsy and charming and breaking at least one breakable thing a week. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z What he liked about it was the smallness, and the fact that it seemed never to have had any particular function of its own. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z We should credit it for what it is: for sheer size and perfection of function, it is far and away the grandest product of collaboration in all of nature. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the simplest of human tools—hammer, scythe, bellows, ladder, scissors—the function of the molecule can be entirely comprehended from its structure. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This made die opportunity to study a function of how much money one had. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Unfortunately,” said Mrs. Gause, “all the fiction wall cameras were not functioning from the start of the Library Olympics until ten minutes ago.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Another aspect of the auditory cortex’s function is how it groups or perceives musical information. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Ifx represents the vector of variables, b and c are vectors of known coefficients, and A is a matrix of coefficients, determine the maximum value of the objective function cTx . Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Over the next two hours we submerge ourselves in finding the sums of infinite geometric series, calculating iterate functions, and expanding powers of binomials. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Physiologists concentrate, instead, on the mechanisms by which these structures and parts interact to enable the functions of living organisms; they concern themselves with how things work. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z His face glows red in the flashing light of the remote-pilot function. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z My lung function fell to 35 percent so quickly. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z |
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