facility

facility

something that serves a specific function: a parking facility; an easy-flowing manner: facility of style; skill, aptitude, or dexterity: He has a great facility with words.
Not to be confused with:felicity – great happiness; bliss; a skillful faculty: Her felicity of expression is delightful.

fa·cil·i·ty

F0005800 (fə-sĭl′ĭ-tē)n. pl. fa·cil·i·ties 1. a. Ease in moving, acting, or doing: "a soldier who was expected to be able to fell a tree ... or build a bridge with equal facility" (Bruce I. Gudmundsson).b. An ability or talent; an aptitude: "He was a mediocre student who had a facility for absorbing details without curiosity" (Jhumpa Lahiri).2. often facilitiesa. A building, room, array of equipment, or a number of such things, designed to serve a particular function: hospitals and other health care facilities.b. Something that facilitates an action or process: The region has very poor transportation facilities.3. facilities Informal A restroom or public toilet.

facility

(fəˈsɪlɪtɪ) n, pl -ties1. ease of action or performance; freedom from difficulty2. ready skill or ease deriving from practice or familiarity3. (often plural) the means or equipment facilitating the performance of an action4. rare easy-going disposition5. (Military) military an organization or building offering supporting capability6. (usually plural) a euphemistic word for lavatory[C15: from Latin facilitās, from facilis easy; see facile]

fa•cil•i•ty

(fəˈsɪl ɪ ti)

n., pl. -ties. 1. Often, facilities. a. something designed, built, or installed to afford a specific convenience or service: a new research facility. b. Usually, facilities. something that permits the easier performance of an action, course of conduct, etc.: a hotel with facilities for conferences. 2. readiness or ease due to skill, aptitude, or practice; dexterity. 3. an easy-flowing manner. 4. the quality of being easily or conveniently done or performed. 5. Usually, facilities. a rest room. 6. lack of difficulty; ease. [1375–1425; late Middle English (< Middle French) < Latin facilitās; see facile]

facility

A real property entity consisting of one or more of the following: a building, a structure, a utility system, pavement, and underlying land. See also air facility.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	facility - a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry; "the assembly plant is an enormous facility"installationartefact, artifact - a man-made object taken as a wholeairfield, flying field, landing field, field - a place where planes take off and landarboretum, botanical garden - a facility where trees and shrubs are cultivated for exhibitionathletic facility - a facility for athletic eventsbackroom - the meeting place of a group of leaders who make their decisions via private negotiationscafeteria facility - (usually plural) facilities for providing food for employees or visitorscommunication equipment, communication system - facility consisting of the physical plants and equipment for disseminating informationcourse - facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport; "the course had only nine holes"; "the course was less than a mile"depositary, depository, repository, deposit - a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeepingdrive-in - any installation designed to accommodate patrons in their automobilesmeeting place, forum, assembly - a public facility to meet for open discussiongas system - facility (plant and equipment) for providing natural-gas servicezoo, zoological garden, menagerie - the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibitionmilitary installation - any facility servicing military forcespower grid, power system, grid - a system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a regionrange - a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds; "the army maintains a missile range in the desert"; "any good golf club will have a range where you can practice"recreation facility, recreational facility - a public facility for recreationsewage system, sewage works, sewer system - facility consisting of a system of sewers for carrying off liquid and solid sewagesource - a facility where something is availablestation - a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose; "he started looking for a gas station"; "the train pulled into the station"transportation, transportation system, transit - a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goodsutility - a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal; "the price of the house included all utilities"water supply, water system, water - a facility that provides a source of water; "the town debated the purification of the water supply"; "first you have to cut off the water"
	2.	facility - skillful performance or ability without difficulty; "his quick adeptness was a product of good design"; "he was famous for his facility as an archer"adeptness, adroitness, deftness, quicknessskillfulness - the state of being cognitively skillfultouch - deftness in handling matters; "he has a master's touch"dexterity, manual dexterity, sleight - adroitness in using the hands
	3.	facility - a natural effortlessness; "they conversed with great facility"; "a happy readiness of conversation"--Jane Austenreadinesseffortlessness - the quality of requiring little effort; "such effortlessness is achieved only after hours of practice"
	4.	facility - something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service; "catering facilities"; "toilet facilities"; "educational facilities"artefact, artifact - a man-made object taken as a wholepublic convenience, public lavatory, public toilet, restroom, toilet facility, wash room, comfort station, convenience - a toilet that is available to the public
	5.	facility - a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you; "a cell phone with internet facility"service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services"

facility

noun1. (often plural) amenity, means, aid, opportunity, advantage, resource, equipment, provision, convenience, appliance What recreational facilities are now available?2. opportunity, possibility, convenience The bank will not extend the borrowing facility.3. ability, skill, talent, gift, craft, efficiency, knack, fluency, proficiency, dexterity, quickness, adroitness, expertness, skilfulness They shared a facility for languages.4. ease, readiness, fluency, smoothness, effortlessness He had always spoken with facility.
ease pains, difficulty, hardship, awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, maladroitness5. establishment Some doctors were working all day in one medical facility, then working night shifts in private hospitals.

facility

noun1. The ability to perform without apparent effort:ease, easiness, effortlessness, facileness, readiness.2. Ready skill in expression:fluency, fluidity.3. Anything that increases physical comfort.Often used in plural:amenity, comfort, convenience.

Translations

容易才能敏捷能力设备

facility

(fəˈsiləti) noun1. ease or quickness. She showed great facility in learning languages. 敏捷，容易 敏捷，容易 2. a skill. He has a great facility for always being right. 技巧 能力，才能 noun pluralfaˈcilities the means to do something. There are facilities for cooking. 設備 设备