Do we say operating or functioning

operating 745 occurrences

A boat from this vessel, in charge of an officer, boarded us, and delivered to the captain a sealed packet, which I understood to be a dispatch, addressed to General Taylor, the officer in command of the troops operating against the Indians in Florida.

On my proceeding to a house used as officers' quarters, outside the stockade, I found the stir had been caused by the arrival of two companies of light-horse soldiers from St. Marks, escorting several couples of bloodhounds, to aid the army, operating in that part of Florida, to exterminate the Indians.

It seems the French have acceded to the proposals of the Pasha of Egypt, and finding 50,000 men would be required to take Algiers, prefer his operating with 40,000 of his own.

Whatever the applications envisioned for the communication technology being developed, the operating principles of the finished networking solutions, as well as the style of collaboration required to create them, offered up a new cultural narrative based in collective self-determination.

While early DOS computer users tended to understand a lot about how their computers stored information and launched programs, later operating systems such as Windows 95 put more barriers in place.

Although these operating systems make computers easier to use in some ways, they prevent users from gaining access or command over its more intricate processes.

Operating in a closed source fashion, the right to actually produce currency is held exclusively by the Federal Reserve.

For example, an open source software developer who writes just a few useful lines of code, say the protocol for enabling infrared communications to work on the Linux operating system, will see his or her contribution interpolated into the kernel of the operating system and then spread to everyone who uses it.

The divers were very quick and keen, true individualists operating alone and showing astonishing ability in swimming long distances under water.

Without his intervention, that is to say, without the aid of his Spirit operating upon my heart, it never could have experienced a real conversion.

Immediately there was a sharp clang, as some catch snicked in, and held it against the powerful operating spring.

Here then we have an absolute law of nature to be observed operating everywhere on the earth, and the mode of action of which is fairly well understood.

Whatever of regulation in our laws has ever been adopted unfavorable to the interest of any foreign nation has been essentially defensive and counteracting to similar regulations of theirs operating against us.

The occasion may be proper, also, for securing the use and accommodations of the Neapolitan ports, which may at any time be needed by the public ships of the United States, and for obtaining relief for the American commerce from the disadvantageous and unequal regulations now operating against it in that Kingdom, JAMES MADISON.

Nor would they, familiarized as they were to defeats, through a course of so many years, have withstood the first shout and shock of the Romans, had not another fear, operating still more powerfully in their breasts, restrained them from flying.

The resistance which has been opposed to their removal by some of the tribes even after treaties had been made with them to that effect has arisen from various causes, operating differently on each of them.

The experience of the last two months, and especially the recent decisions of the courts, with the continued suspension of specie payments by the banks over large sections of the United States, operating unfavorably upon the revenue, have greatly strengthened the views then taken of the subject.

We see the same cause operating to a considerable extent in those parts of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, settled mainly by slaveholders and others, who were natives of slave states, in contrast with other parts of these states settled almost exclusively by persons from free states; that affrays and breaches of the peace are far more frequent in the former than in the latter, is well known to all.

Mr. LAWRANCE (of New York,) presented an address from the society of Friends, in the City of New York; in which they set forth their desire of co-operating with their Southern brethren.

"The managers consider it clear that causes exist, and are now operating, to prevent their improvement and elevation to any considerable extent as a class in this country, which are fixed, not only beyond the control of the friends of humanity, but of any human power: CHRISTIANITY cannot do for them here, what it will do for them in Africa.

"It's a local ship, designed for operating in the Asteroid Belt.

That evening, Zip put on one of the spacesuits and practiced operating it and moving around inside the hangar.

Youthmelancholy, or early habits of reflection, and an independence on others for amusement or formation of opinions were thus generated, which, operating on his exquisite organization, contributed to make him the master-spirit of his age.

The operating room; instructions for nurses and assistants.

SEE Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Operating room.

functioning 99 occurrences

No one can help admiring their well-ordered functioning.

" Not a doubt seems to exist in Adam's mind as to the efficiency of functioning woman-power in this way.

The majority want women to organize the home and it is only a small minority who place obstacles in the way of the wider functioning of women.

"More and more we are forced to realize that the general form and external appearance of the human body depends, to a large extent, upon the functioning, during the early developmental period, of the endocrine glands.

Ovaries or testes actively functioning erupt upon the calm spectacle, and the girl is transfigured into the maid, the boy into the youth.

Other women, with normal or exaggerated sex instinct who welcome and stimulate the sex life, may have no wish for children, no functioning maternal instinct at all, and if sterile, will accept their fate with indifference or even exultation.

The development and normal functioning of the intellect, the pure reason as Kant called it, are controlled by them.

She is what she is because she possesses small, shrivelled, poorly functioning ovaries.

In their final fusion, the commingling vegetative sensations constitute the emotion evolved in the functioning of the instinct.

From this it produces cosmic creation as the expression of itself as functioning in Space and Time.

Nor is it enough to work for the re-establishment of justice even by those methods of righteousness, and with the impulse towards righteousness, which are so different from those which are functioning at present along the lines of contemporary industrial "reform."

What is needed is an initiative in legislation, centred in one responsible head or group, that, while functioning in all normal and necessary legislative directions, still allows individual initiative on the part of the legislators, as a supplementary, or corrective, or protective agency.

It was more nearly an unit, functioning lucidly and consistently, than anything the world has known since the Roman Empire.

The frictionless functioning of this whole system is effected by everyone adhering to the rites, which prescribe every important action.

Powered by adrenaline, his senses were functioning at their peak.

Telepathy my theories and my feelings or my brain functioning under the medium, forces, influences and control of telepathic equipment (thought transmitter)

As I write, the great revolution is modifying the structure and functioning of human society and, consequently, the forces which condition, shape and, in large measure, determine the directions and channels in which humanity lives, moves and has its being.

The practical outcome of laissez-faire economy has been monopoly or finance capitalism functioning through the sovereign state or empire.

He felt paralysed, numb, even his brain functioning strangely, the danger of his helpless condition its only incentive to action.

But, still, even the ordinary clairvoyant is able to secure results which are wonderful enough in all truth, and which far transcend the power of the person functioning on the physical plane alone.

Moreover, in case of impaired functioning of the physical organs or parts, and impaired activity of the physical body, its limbs, etc., if we can manage to arouse the activities of the astral body we may cause it to re-materialize or re-energize the physical body, and thus restore health and activity to it.

If the liver, for instance, is not functioning properly, we proceed to start up the activities of the astral counterpart of that organ, to the end that the physical organ may be re-energized, and recreated in a measure.

Once the en rapport condition is established between healer and patient, and the rest is simplethe astral body is induced to energize more actively, and as a result the physical manifestation is improved and normal functioning restored.

While treating his patients by the laying on of hands, he, at the same time, strives to induce in the mind of the patient the mental image of restored health and physical strength; he pictures the diseased organ as restored to health and normal functioning; he sees the entire physiological machinery operating properly, the work of nutrition, assimilation, and excretion going on naturally and normally.

There is no particular virtue in the form of affirmation used by the healer or patient, except the important virtue of being able to arouse strong mental pictures of restored health, proper functioning, etc.

Do we say   operating   or  functioning