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bodily functions

euphemism The normal workings of the body, especially those usually done in private, such as urinating or defecating. When you have three sons, bodily functions are a common topic of discussion around the house.

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function as (something)

To have a particular purpose or fill a certain role. Mrs. Smith will function as your homeroom teacher for the rest of the year now that Mrs. Jones is on maternity leave.

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bodily functions

Euph. anything the body does automatically or as a normal occurrence, especially urinating and defecating. The dog needed to go outside and perform her bodily functions. It is not polite to discuss bodily functions at the dinner table.

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function as

To serve a purpose or play a role similar to that of something else: The beaks of some wading birds function as spears for catching fish.

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The VLOOKUP is going to look for the current month's data by using the MATCH, TODAY, and TEXT functions.

The function arguments dialog and nested functions

To evoke the displayed commands, click on an icon or press one of the function keys.

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Cellular and molecular function of genes expressed, for example, in the aging nervous system, cardiovascular, immune, and musculoskeletal systems.

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Like other compliance functions, these tax functions consume tremendous resources and can burden an entire tax department, especially during periods of change in the broader organization.

Tax cosourcing: the flexible alternative to tax outsourcing

A vast number of natural products and therapies actively modify or stimulate immune function.

Medicine for the third millennium: an historical perspective

It is relatively hard and expensive to build buildings which function well without the high-tech bandages that we now rely on.

Changes in environmental forces drive mold growth

Other improvements include added functions that enhance system reliability.

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Moreover, Ragins (1999) speculated that because of gender role stereotypes, men may underreport mentoring relationships and the functions provided by their mentors as a way of maintaining the self-perception and social perception of career independence and status.

Beyond mentoring: alternative sources and functions of developmental support

One of the purposes of this investigation was to describe and analyze the instructional decisions I made during a series of instruction episodes aimed at examining the processes used by middle school students to interpret dynamic physical models of functions and to link their interpretations to tables and equations.

Instructional decisions: helping students build links between representations

Chief executives seem poised to make a big bet on outsourcing of more strategic functions to achieve business transformation goals.

Outsourcing: The path to achieving business transformation goals. (Advertisement: CEO Survey)

Require NYSE-listed companies to have internal audit functions.

Unleashing the potential of internal audit: as executives and directors rethink their corporate governance procedures, the authors offer a four-step approach to strengthening corporate assurance. (Audit)

Although the global purpose of EMR is to improve patient care, the myth is perpetrated when functions are added without an overall focus on patient care.

Myths and realities of electronic medical records: 9 vital functions combine to create comprehensive EMR. (Medical Records)

The committee that published the criteria held that any organ that no longer functions, nor has the possibility of functioning again, is, for all practical purposes, dead.

Life and death and the organ donor

Briggs conceived a project for the computation of tables of mathematical functions of importance in applications.