function vs verb

function

verb
  • To carry out a function; to be in action. 

  • To have a function. 

noun
  • What something does or is used for. 

  • The physiological activity of an organ or body part. 

  • A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result. 

  • The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group. 

  • An official or social occasion. 

  • A party. 

  • The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound. 

  • A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain. 

  • A professional or official position. 

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

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

verb

verb
  • To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb. 

  • To use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb. 

noun
  • A named command that performs a specific operation on an object. 

  • A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being. 

  • An action as opposed to a trait or thing. 

How often have the words function and verb occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )