Alive
Alive adjective - Being in effective operation.
Usage example: kept the cause of peace alive despite severe setbacks in relations between the two nations
Functional and alive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Functional" instead an adjective "Alive".
Functional
Functional adjective - Being in effective operation.
Usage example: I don't think that vending machine is functional, so don't put money into it
Alive and functional are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alive" instead an adjective "Functional".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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But constructing and staffing these stations is a problem, since people are hard to keep alive and functional at such depths.
Source: Literature / Rifters Trilogy - Combat Breakdown: Done with loss of limbs restricting movement, (Though they may still move independantly somehow) Critical Existence Failure: Tori and Uke are 100% alive and functional until something besides a foot or a hand touches the ground, at which point they both go limp.
Source: Video Game / Toribash -
Anything built with them is fully functional and (depending on what the creation represents, such as a humanoid or an animal) alive.
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