facility 音标拼音: [fəs'ɪlɪti]
n . 容易,便利,设施,设备;熟练,灵巧
容易,便利,设施,设备;熟练,灵巧
facility 设施; 设备
facility 设施
facility n 1 :
a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry ; "
the assembly plant is an enormous facility " [
synonym : {
facility }, {
installation }]
2 :
skillful performance or ability without difficulty ; "
his quick adeptness was a product of good design "; "
he was famous for his facility as an archer " [
synonym : {
adeptness },
{
adroitness }, {
deftness }, {
facility }, {
quickness }]
3 :
a natural effortlessness ; "
they conversed with great facility "; "
a happy readiness of conversation "--
Jane Austen [
synonym : {
facility }, {
readiness }]
4 :
something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service ; "
catering facilities "; "
toilet facilities "; "
educational facilities "
5 :
a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you ; "
a cell phone with internet facility "
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Facilities } (
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L .
facilitas ,
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facilis easy :
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F .
facilit ['
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1 .
The quality of being easily performed ;
freedom from difficulty ;
ease ;
as ,
the facility of an operation .
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The facility with which government has been overturned in France . --
Burke .
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2 .
Ease in performance ;
readiness proceeding from skill or use ;
dexterity ;
as ,
practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art .
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3 .
Easiness to be persuaded ;
readiness or compliance ; --
usually in a bad sense ;
pliancy .
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It is a great error to take facility for good nature . --
L '
Estrange .
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4 .
Easiness of access ;
complaisance ;
affability .
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Offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility . --
South .
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5 .
That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct ;
advantage ;
aid ;
assistance ; --
usually in the plural ;
as ,
special facilities for study .
Syn :
Ease ;
expertness ;
readiness ;
dexterity ;
complaisance ;
condescension ;
affability .
Usage : {
Facility }, {
Expertness }, {
Readiness }.
These words have in common the idea of performing any act with ease and promptitude .
Facility supposes a natural or acquired power of dispatching a task with lightness and ease .
Expertness is the kind of facility acquired by long practice .
Readiness marks the promptitude with which anything is done .
A merchant needs great facility in dispatching business ;
a banker ,
great expertness in casting accounts ;
both need great readiness in passing from one employment to another .
"
The facility which we get of doing things by a custom of doing ,
makes them often pass in us without our notice ." --
Locke . "
The army was celebrated for the expertness and valor of the soldiers ." "
A readiness to obey the known will of God is the surest means to enlighten the mind in respect to duty ."
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254 Moby Thesaurus words for "
facility ":
WC ,
abandon ,
ability ,
ableness ,
accommodation ,
accouterments ,
adaptability ,
address ,
adeptness ,
adequacy ,
adroitness ,
advantage ,
agency ,
agreeability ,
agreeableness ,
aid ,
airmanship ,
alacrity ,
amenability ,
amenity ,
apparatus ,
appliance ,
appliances ,
appointments ,
appurtenance ,
appurtenances ,
aptitude ,
aptness ,
armament ,
artfulness ,
artisanship ,
artistry ,
atelier ,
barbershop ,
beauty parlor ,
beauty shop ,
bench ,
bendability ,
bent ,
biddability ,
bog ,
bravura ,
brightness ,
brilliance ,
butcher shop ,
caliber ,
capability ,
capableness ,
capacity ,
celerity ,
cleverness ,
comfort ,
command ,
company ,
competence ,
complex ,
compliableness ,
concern ,
control ,
convenience ,
conveniences ,
coordination ,
corporation ,
craft ,
craftsmanship ,
cunning ,
deftness ,
desk ,
dexterity ,
dexterousness ,
dextrousness ,
diplomacy ,
docility ,
drive ,
ductibility ,
ductility ,
duffel ,
ease ,
easiness ,
educability ,
efficacy ,
efficiency ,
effortlessness ,
elasticity ,
elegance ,
engine ,
enginery ,
equipage ,
equipment ,
establishment ,
expertise ,
expertness ,
extendibility ,
extensibility ,
facilities ,
faculty ,
fictility ,
finesse ,
firm ,
fitness ,
fitting ,
fittings ,
fixture ,
fixtures ,
flair ,
flexibility ,
flexility ,
flexuousness ,
flow ,
fluency ,
formativeness ,
furnishings ,
furniture ,
gear ,
genius ,
give ,
grace ,
gracefulness ,
grip ,
handiness ,
head ,
horsemanship ,
house ,
impedimenta ,
impressionability ,
ingeniousness ,
ingenuity ,
installation ,
installations ,
institution ,
intelligence ,
john ,
kit ,
know -
how ,
lavatory ,
leaning ,
lightness ,
limberness ,
litheness ,
loft ,
loo ,
machine ,
machinery ,
malleability ,
marksmanship ,
masterfulness ,
mastership ,
mastery ,
materiel ,
mechanical aid ,
mechanical device ,
mechanism ,
moldability ,
motivation ,
motive power ,
motor ,
munition ,
munitions ,
organization ,
outfit ,
paraphernalia ,
parlor ,
plant ,
plasticity ,
pliability ,
pliancy ,
plumbing ,
poetry ,
poise ,
power plant ,
power source ,
practical ability ,
privy ,
proficiency ,
propensity ,
prowess ,
qualification ,
quickness ,
readiness ,
receptiveness ,
receptivity ,
resource ,
resourcefulness ,
responsiveness ,
rest room ,
rig ,
rigging ,
savoir -
faire ,
savvy ,
seamanship ,
sensibility ,
sensitiveness ,
sequacity ,
servility ,
shop ,
skill ,
skillfulness ,
smoothness ,
speed ,
spontaneity ,
springiness ,
stock -
in -
trade ,
structure ,
studio ,
style ,
submissiveness ,
subservience ,
sufficiency ,
suppleness ,
susceptibility ,
sweatshop ,
swiftness ,
system ,
tackle ,
tact ,
tactfulness ,
talent ,
teachability ,
teachableness ,
technical brilliance ,
technical mastery ,
technical skill ,
technique ,
tensileness ,
tensility ,
the goods ,
the stuff ,
things ,
timing ,
toilet ,
tractability ,
tractility ,
trainableness ,
turn ,
unconstraint ,
utensils ,
utility ,
virtuosity ,
what it takes ,
willingness ,
willowiness ,
wit ,
wizardry ,
work site ,
work space ,
workbench ,
workhouse ,
working space ,
workmanship ,
workplace ,
workroom ,
workshop ,
worktable ,
yieldingness
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