Festival vs. Function — What's the Difference?

A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid.

An activity that is natural to or the purpose of a person or thing

A day or period of celebration, typically for religious reasons

A relation or expression involving one or more variables

An organized series of concerts, plays, or films, typically one held annually in the same place

A thing dependent on another factor or factors

An occasion for feasting or celebration, especially a day or time of religious significance that recurs at regular intervals.

A large or formal social event or ceremony

An often regularly recurring program of cultural performances, exhibitions, or competitions

Work or operate in a proper or particular way

Revelry; conviviality.

A person's role or occupation

Of, relating to, or suitable for a feast or festival; festive.

(Biology) The physiological activity of an organ or body part

Pertaining to a feast or feast day; festive. Now only as the noun used attributively.

(Computers) A procedure within an application.

(Bible) A feast or feast day.

An official ceremony or a formal social occasion

An event or series of special events centred on the celebration or promotion of some theme or aspect of the community, often held at regular intervals.

Something closely related to another thing and dependent on it for its existence, value, or significance

In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.

A variable so related to another that for each value assumed by one there is a value determined for the other.

Fried cornbread.

A rule of correspondence between two sets such that there is exactly one element in the second set assigned to each element in the first set. Also called mapping.

Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.

To have or perform a function; serve

A day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration

To deal with or overcome the challenges of everyday life

An organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place);

What something does or is used for.

A professional or official position.

An official or social occasion.

Something which is dependent on or stems from another thing; a result or concomitant.

A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.

(mathematics) A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain. Category:en:Functions

(computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.

(biology) The physiological activity of an organ or body part.

(chemistry) The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.

(anthropology) The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.

(intransitive) To have a function.

(intransitive) To carry out a function; to be in action.

The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; performance.

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 body.

The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind.

The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.

A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x.

A religious ceremony, esp. one particularly impressive and elaborate.

A public or social ceremony or gathering; a festivity or entertainment, esp. one somewhat formal.

To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.

A mathematical relation such that each element of one set is associated with at least one element of another set

What something is used for;

The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group;

A relation such that one thing is dependent on another;

A formal or official social gathering or ceremony;

A vaguely specified social event;

A set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program

Perform as expected when applied;

Serve a purpose, role, or function;

Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function;