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Functioning vs Serviceable - What's the difference?

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Functioning is a related term of serviceable.


As adjectives the difference between functioning and serviceable

is that functioning is functional, working while serviceable is easy to service.

As a verb functioning

is .

As a noun functioning

is action of the verb function.

functioning

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Functional, working
  • Synonyms

    * (functional) useful

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Action of the verb function.
  • Manner by which something functions; the workings.
  • serviceable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Easy to service.
  • Repairable instead of disposable.
  • In condition for use.
  • *1719- , (w), (Robinson Crusoe)
  • *:I employed myself in making, as well as I could, a great many baskets, both to carry earth or to carry or lay up anything, as I had occasion; and though I did not finish them very handsomely, yet I made them sufficiently serviceable for my purpose...
  • *
  • *:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  • Synonyms

    * *

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