functional meaning in a sentence
Examples
- The first, another single-tower design, was a cable-stayed structure, with fan-shaped planes of cables splayed out from a concrete tower to the road-deck's edges . ( The effect is similar to a bridge Calatrava designed for Bordeaux in 1991, but this was a swing bridge, and the revolving motion of its central section gave functional meaning to the tower's spindlelike form .)