functional betydelse and definition

Betydelse av functional på svenska

• 0 designed to be practical and useful rather than attractive:

  • functional clothing

• 1 (of a machine, system, etc.) working in the usual way:

  • Is the central heating functional yet?

  • a functional disorder (= when an organ does not work as it should)

• 2 relating to language functions, for example saying sorry, asking for something, or refusing something:

  • The course will teach participants functional language.

  • Spanish functional phrases being taught to the police include "Calm down", "Speak Slower" and "You're under arrest".

• 3 intended to be used; practical rather than attractive:

  • Our furniture isn’t very fancy, but it’s functional.

  • Is the plumbing functional yet (= does it work)?

• 4 working in the expected or necessary way:

  • The timeline is for the site to be fully functional in 18 months.

• 5 relating to the different areas of skill in a business:

  • functional areas/departments/expertise Taxpayers will save time and resources by dealing with one team rather than several different functional areas.

• 6 designed for a practical purpose rather than for the way something looks:

  • highly functional but stylistically unremarkable designs