"function" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The office was only a symbolic function after 1848.
- Presidential pardons have both a symbolic and practical function in America's justice system.
- "The ships and troops have an important symbolic function," a State Department official said.
- I am more interested in the varying symbolic functions they fulfil.
- Hence, illnesses have a symbolic function which has to be recognized by both therapist and patient.
- The symbolic or referential function uses words to talk about the objective world, to point to things, as Richards puts it.
- Over the years the symbolic function of hair has changed, particularly in African cities.
- So one could say the family name Angel has also got a symbolic function.
- This rather large atrium had a practical as well as symbolic function.
- Secondly, the President serves the important symbolic function of representing the nation.
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