Yet it is effectively the same size, shape and function as its grand-bearer.

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Living things also use their shape or structure to enable function.

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In the short-term, if production is increasing as the result of debt, a country can function in relatively good shape.

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CDM's imaging system, it passes first through conventional optical elements, and then through a lens moulded into a shape of a cubic-like function (ie, with a surface which, instead of being spherical, is relatively flat in the centre but has scalloped edges).

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They did not count on Senators deciding that, instead of serving as serious quality-control agents on accords that would shape the sovereignty and security of the nation, they would function as little more than quaint parliamentary appendages, mere speed bumps enroute to the preordained approval of whatever the executive serves up.

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This allows scientists to glimpse the shape of virus and bacteria components and get some insight into how they function.

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The shape that the amino-acid chain wraps itself up into is critical to its function.

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The traditional construction processes require both technical skills to design the building with consideration to its size, site and function, and aesthetic sense to select the lumber for the construction materials, cut and shape the wood, and assemble and interlock the separate wooden pieces without using nails, creating the so-called joints that withstand a millennium.

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