Functioning vs. Working — What's the Difference?

A person's role or occupation

Performing work

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

Operating or functioning as required

(Computers) A procedure within an application.

Having a paying job; employed

An official ceremony or a formal social occasion

Spent at work

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

Taken while continuing to work

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

Sufficient to allow action

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.

Adequate for practical use

To have or perform a function; serve

Serving as a basis or guide for further work

To deal with or overcome the challenges of everyday life

The manner in which something operates or functions

Present participle of function

The parts of a mine or quarry that have been or are being excavated.

Functional, working

Operation; action.

Mentally disabled but still able to survive in wider society.

Method of operation.

Action of the verb function.

(arithmetic) The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.

Manner by which something functions; the workings.

Fermentation.

Process or manner of functioning or operating;

(of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.

Performing or able to perform its regular function;

A place where work is carried on.

(countable) A train movement.

Present participle of work

That is or are functioning.

That suffices but requires additional work.

In paid employment.

Of or relating to employment.

Enough to allow one to use something.

Used in real life; practical.

(obsolete) Efficacious.

A mine or quarry that is being or has been worked

Actively engaged in paid work;

Adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something;

Adopted as a temporary basis for further work;

(of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing;

Serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity;