funkis — meaning in English
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English meaning
- cripple noun An outdated and now offensive term for a person with a serious physical disability.
- functionalism noun A doctrine, in several fields, that the function of something should be reflected in its design and the materials used in its construction.
Senses
funkis is used for these senses in English:
- cripple (offensive) A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
- functionalism (architecture) A doctrine, in several fields, that the function of something should be reflected in its design and the materials used in its construction.
cripple — full definition
- noun An outdated and now offensive term for a person with a serious physical disability.
- verb To severely damage or disable something, physically or otherwise.
functionalism — full definition
- noun A doctrine, in several fields, that the function of something should be reflected in its design and the materials used in its construction.
- noun The definition of mental states in terms of their causes and effects.
- noun The idea that social and cultural cohesion are a function of the interdependence and interactions of the institutions of a society.
- noun The theory that the Holocaust was the result of a gradual escalation of decisions and procedures at the operational level (approved but not necessarily preconceived by Hitler).