Facility
[fə'sɪləti]
Definition
(noun.) a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you; 'a cell phone with internet facility'.
(noun.) something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service; 'catering facilities'; 'toilet facilities'; 'educational facilities'.
(noun.) a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry; 'the assembly plant is an enormous facility'.
(noun.) a natural effortlessness; 'they conversed with great facility'; 'a happy readiness of conversation'--Jane Austen.
Edited by Leopold--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.
(n.) Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.
(n.) Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy.
(n.) Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.
(n.) That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; -- usually in the plural; as, special facilities for study.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Easiness (in doing any thing), ease.[2]. Readiness, dexterity, expertness, quickness, knack, ability.[3]. Affability, condescension, complaisance, urbanity, civility, politeness.[4]. Pliancy, ductility, flexibility.[5]. Means, resource, appliance, convenience, advantage.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Ease, address, readiness, quickness, adroitness, dexterity, pliancy
ANT:Labor, effort, awkwardness, difficulty
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Examples
- His facility in making hasty but intensely graphic sketches is proverbial. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- By this facility the impression is transmitted more entire, and excites a greater degree of pride and vanity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- That they can ascend and descend hills of considerable elevation, with facility and safety. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It foresees the facility of borrowing, and therefore dispenses itself from the duty of saving. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Kindnesses all my life, echoed Rawdon, scratching down the words, and quite amazed at his own facility of composition. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- As in reciprocal crosses, the facility of effecting an union is often very far from equal, so it sometimes is in grafting. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He neve r attained any literary facility, and was always more successful in conveying his observations by maps, drawings, and con versation than by books. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It spoke English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish and Hebrew with equal facility. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Such facility sickened him--but he told himself that it was with the pang which precedes recovery. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The texts were there still, and so was his own facility in expounding them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We are getting foreignized rapidly and with facility. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The facility of borrowing delivers them from the embarrassment which this fear and inability would otherwise occasion. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The gentleman repeated his salutation, stooping, that it might reach her ear with more facility. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If it commonly brings along with it the necessity of borrowing, it likewise brings with it the facility of doing so. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- With this increase in the facility of reading, the reading public grew. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When the trade had extended into all the surrounding counties, however, the new business needed another prime essential of industry--transportation facilities. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And thus matters went on until the early part of the present decade, when the factory facilities were becoming so rapidly outgrown as to render radical changes necessary. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Many people now charge their own batteries because of lack of facilities; but I believe central stations will find in this work very soon the largest part of their load. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The increasing facilities of communication enhanced this tendency and depleted Dublin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Being in a narrow street and a congested district, the plant needed special facilities for the handling of coal and ashes, as well as for ventilation and forced draught. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The Duke owned a great estate, of untold mineral wealth, which had never been properly worked because of lack of transportation facilities. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This ore could be excavated very cheaply by means of improved mining facilities, and transported at low cost to lake ports. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Transport facilities were limited, and most of them arrived in Europe with a radiant air of privilege. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Manifestly this intercommunicating series of Judaized communities had very great financial and political facilities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In tall buildings the multitude of messengers and the frequent passing in and out would demand the increase in elevator facilities and even the enlargement of halls and doorways. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In America the new subscriber finds his need anticipated and the facilities provided. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This gave him unusual facilities, for that country, for concentrating his forces to his right. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The boys in those days had extraordinary facilities for travel. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It, and it alone, had the facilities for organizing _will_, for the need of which the empire was falling to pieces like a piece of rotten cloth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Improved factory facilities were introduced; new tools were made, and various types of machines were designed so that phonographs can now be bought at prices ranging from $10 to $200. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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