| 单词 | faculty |
| 释义 | faculty /fak"euhl tee/, n. , pl. faculties. 1. an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily. 2. one of the powers of the mind, as memory, reason, or speech: Though very sick, he is in full possession of all his faculties. 3. an inherent capability of the body: the faculties of sight and hearing. 4. exceptional ability or aptitude: a president with a faculty for management. 5. Educ. a. the entire teaching and administrative force of a university, college, or school. b. one of the departments of learning, as theology, medicine, or law, in a university. c. the teaching body, sometimes with the students, in any of these departments. 6. the members of a learned profession: the medical faculty. 7. a power or privilege conferred by the state, a superior, etc.: The police were given the faculty to search the building. 8. Eccles. a dispensation, license, or authorization. [1350-1400; ME faculte < AF, MF < L facultat- (s. of facultas) ability, power, equiv. to facil(is) easy (see FACILE) + -tat- -TY2; cf. FACILITY] Syn. 1. capacity, aptitude, knack, potential, skill. See ability. |
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