facility
/fə'siliti/
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Definition
- Noun:
- A service, piece of equipment, or system provided for a particular purpose: A resource or amenity offered by an organization or a piece of technology.
- A building, room, or set of rooms designed for a specific function: A place or complex built to serve a particular industry, activity, or public need.
- A natural ability to do something easily and well; a lack of difficulty: Effortless skill, aptitude, or fluency in performing an action or task.
Examples of Usage
- Noun (Service/Equipment):
- The hotel offers a business center facility for its guests.
- This software includes a backup facility.
- Noun (Building/Place):
- The new sports facility includes a pool and a gym.
- The manufacturing facility employs over 500 people.
- Noun (Ease/Ability):
- She speaks French with remarkable facility.
- He solved the complex equations with surprising facility.
Advanced Usage
- "with facility": Used to describe doing something with great ease or skill.
- The pianist played the sonata with astonishing facility.
- "to afford a facility": To provide or make available a particular service or convenience.
- The campus affords excellent research facilities.
Variants and Related Words
- Facilitate (verb): To make an action or process easier.
- The new software facilitates online collaboration.
- Facilitation (noun): The act of making something easier.
- Her facilitation of the meeting was very effective.
- Facilitator (noun): A person who helps a group discuss issues or learn together.
- The workshop facilitator guided the discussion.
Synonyms
- Amenity: A desirable or useful feature of a place.
- Resource: A stock or supply of materials or assets that can be drawn on.
- Proficiency: A high degree of skill; expertise.
- Fluency: The ability to express oneself easily and articulately.
Related Phrases
- Recreational facility: A place designed for leisure activities (e.g., park, community center).
- Storage facility: A building or space used for keeping items.
- Banking facilities: The services provided by a bank.
Idioms
- "To have a facility for (something)": To have a natural talent or aptitude for doing something easily.
- She has a real facility for learning languages.
Noun
- a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you
- a cell phone with internet facility
- something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service
- catering facilities
- toilet facilities
- educational facilities
- a natural effortlessness
- they conversed with great facility
- a happy readiness of conversation--Jane Austen
- skillful performance or ability without difficulty
- his quick adeptness was a product of good design
- he was famous for his facility as an archer
- a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
- the assembly plant is an enormous facility