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Facilities

[fuh-sil-i-tee]

noun, plural -ties.

Often, facilities.

something designed, built, installed, etc., to serve a specific function affording a convenience or service: transportation facilities; educational facilities; a new research facility.

something that permits the easier performance of an action, course of conduct, etc.: to provide someone with every facility for accomplishing a task; to lack facilities for handling bulk mail.

readiness or ease due to skill, aptitude, or practice; dexterity: to compose with great facility.

ready compliance: Her facility in organizing and directing made her an excellent supervisor.

an easy-flowing manner: facility of style.

the quality of being easily or conveniently done or performed.

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Often, facilities. Informal. a rest room, especially one for use by the public, as in a theater or restaurant.

freedom from difficulty, controversy, misunderstanding, etc.: facility of understanding.

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Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English facilite (< Middle French ) < Latin facilitās. See facile, -ity

Related forms

non·fa·cil·i·ty, noun, plural -ties.

o·ver·fa·cil·i·ty, noun

Can be confused: facile, facilitate, facility, felicitate.

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

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Example Sentences

The facilities arms race in college sports has a new frontier: academic-services buildings.

Popovich contains state-of-the-art technology and eight case-study rooms with audio-video teleconferencing facilities.

Horses are then put into holding facilities to be adopted or sold, or to live out the remainder of their lives.

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The facilities arms race in college sports has a new frontier: academic-services buildings.

Popovich contains state-of-the-art technology and eight case-study rooms with audio-video teleconferencing facilities.

Horses are then put into holding facilities to be adopted or sold, or to live out the remainder of their lives.

Possibly, fuel could be stored at existing facilities if they can be expanded.

The museum provides significant supporting facilities and materials for research.

Car companies that didn't cash in on the preceding bonanza are now focusing on putting money into their testing facilities.

It has deflated endowments and disrupted plans to build new facilities and upgrade equipment.

The main university campus offers the full range of services and facilities for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Electricity is mostly used in machine drives, for grinding and crushing, and to transport materials around facilities.

It is illegal for facilities to process out-of-state containers, since a state's beverage industry is paying back those deposits.

Nuclear weapons facilities aren't cleaning up fast enough, according to two reports released this week.

Community colleges' campuses and facilities vary greatly.

School facilities are excellent and include a financial trading room and an e-commerce laboratory for teaching and research.

Facilities were located in the capital city of each country and two randomly chosen regions.

The facilities at the station are relatively new and built to serve the science and the people who conduct it.

Then, they sent a portable atomic clock between the facilities to check.

Compost all pre- and post-consumer food waste generated in dining facilities.

The school is housed in a four-building complex and the facilities are excellent.

Needless to say, some of them spilled and ended up contaminating the ground-and groundwater-beneath manufacturing facilities.

Barbados has several facilities for sporting and other events.

Many consider kettling a human rights violation since it keeps people detained for hours without any toilet or water facilities.

They want to upgrade to a more-prestigious university, a bigger salary, and better facilities.

Corporations that design facilities to minimize their environmental impact may earn a financial return, too.

Poorer areas and countries are likely to have worse facilities for child birth.

Sheppard more optimistically predicted twice as many, given the increased sensitivity of modern astronomical facilities.

Information about facilities contained in this database comes from two sources:.

Using one anchor store as a reference point, ask them if various stores and facilities are close to it or far away.

Marshalling everything from major radar facilities to backyard telescopes, astronomers are gearing up for a fantastic view.

People were not making a lot of connections as to where these facilities are located.

Ultra-cheap printed solar cells will enable construction of huge power-generating facilities at a fraction of today's costs.

Iran denied that it had any other facilities it had failed to report to the agency.

Facilities and transportation offices design parking lots with too few spaces.

Library, sports and other campus facilities are good.

There are facilities everywhere that have brains but it was hard to find one that could cut them into thin slices.

New facilities use everything from guns to temperature extremes to test the safety of photovoltaics and other.

Its facilities and general open-mindedness made the village a haven for iconoclastic thinkers and activists.

The old manufacturing facilities are still there for emergencies.

The capital of this resource-poor nation profits as a regional banking center with a free port and modern air facilities.

Arkansas deploys facilities built to detect chemical and biological weapons to keep tabs on ever-evolving synthetic pot products.

It also supplements rules that address security of chemicals stored at high-risk facilities.

The campus has ultramodern facilities with state-of-the-art technology support.

All facilities are separate from undergraduate areas.

Recyclers send aluminum to material recovery facilities.

He also compared the ancient grains to malt produced in modern facilities.

The act requires research facilities to care for the animals humanely.

Waste facilities separate plastics by resin type and send them off to the recycling plant to be shredded and melted into pellets.

Redirecting existing sewage systems to containment facilities would be a considerable infrastructure modification project.

Facilities will include business-oriented hotels, a convention center, restaurants and financial services.

Congress-suggested that thousands of horses kept in government holding facilities may have to be killed as upkeep.

It would be good if all publically funded facilities be required to do this.

Maybe folks who own storage facilities could dedicate a section of closet-sized lockers for the homeless as a tax write-off.

Throughout history, that phenomenon has lead to explosions in grain storage facilities.

Others are scaling back plans to build new facilities or invest in expensive programs.

The complex provides excellent teaching, library and technology facilities.

Ahead are the x-ray machine and metal detectors that have become fixtures at airports and other key facilities.

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

Arkansas deploys facilities built to detect chemical and.

I'd ask those who have visited these facilities to come to their defense.

Several more large solar facilities are planned for our deserts and some are already under construction.

Existing nearby facilities are not equipped to burn.

They never gave us volume-only size of the facilities and planned timeline".

Owners of facilities labeled as critical infrastructure would be notified as soon as this designation is made.

Legislated for higher security and safety standards at industrial facilities to defend against terrorism.

Modern drugs can unblock clogged arteries if patients get to care facilities in time.

They might also have environmental implications if they make it through sewage treatment facilities into waterways.

Instead, they ship samples to facilities with the necessary licenses and expertise.

Researchers used tobacco plants as manufacturing facilities to make protein to combat cancer.

Prestige is gained by having highly published tenured faculty and brand new costly facilities.

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Word Origin & History

facility

early 15c., from M.Fr. facilité, from L. facilitatem, from facilis "easy" (see facile). Its sense in English moved from "genteelness" to "opportunity" (1510s), to "aptitude, ease" (1530s). Meaning "place for doing something," which makes the word so beloved of journalists

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and fuzzy writers, first recorded 1872.

facilities

opportunities, 1809, pl. of facility. Sense of physical means of doing something is from 1872.

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"Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural facilities: Revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives, that they come from God."

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