Word Meanings - FUNCTIONALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To assign to some function or office.

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• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• FUNCTION; FUNCTIONATE
  To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.
• ASSIGNABILITY
  The quality of being assignable.
• ASSIGN
  To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors. To assign dower, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate. Kent. (more info)
• ASSIGNATION
  1. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces. Holland. 2. An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• FUNCTION
  The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the
• ASSIGNAT
  One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France , and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.
• OFFICER
  Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
• ASSIGNABLE
  Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignable quantity.
• FUNCTIONAL
  Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general. Functional disease , a disease of which the symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; the derangement of an organ arising from a
• OFFICE
  The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. As for the offices, let them stand at distance. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which a person does, either
• ASSIGNER
  One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions.
• FUNCTIONARY
  One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.
• FUNCTIONLESS
  Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin.
• ASSIGNMENT
  1. An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court. A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some
• FUNCTIONALIZE
  To assign to some function or office.
• ASSIGNOR
  An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; as, the assignor of a debt or other chose in action.
• FUNCTIONALLY
  In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity. The organ is said to be functionally disordered. Lawrence.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• MISASSIGN
  To assign wrongly.
• DEFUNCTION
  Death. After defunction of King Pharamond. Shak.
• SUBOFFICER
  An under or subordinate officer.
• UNDEROFFICER
  A subordinate officer.