Facility : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Facility	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
facility n a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry; "the assembly plant is an enormous facility" Synonym(s): facility, installation 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(s): adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility, quickness a natural effortlessness; "they conversed with great facility"; "a happy readiness of conversation"--Jane Austen Synonym(s): facility, readiness something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service; "catering facilities"; "toilet facilities"; "educational facilities" a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you; "a cell phone with internet facility"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Facility \Facil"ity\, n.; pl. {Facilities}. [L. facilitas, fr. facilis easy: cf. F. facilit[?]. See {Facile}.] 1. The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation. The facility with which government has been overturned in France. --Burke. 2. Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art. 3. Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy. It is a great error to take facility for good nature. --L'Estrange. 4. Easiness of access; complaisance; affability. Offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility. --South. 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. [bd]The facility which we get of doing things by a custom of doing, makes them often pass in us without our notice.[b8] --Locke. [bd]The army was celebrated for the expertness and valor of the soldiers.[b8] [bd]A readiness to obey the known will of God is the surest means to enlighten the mind in respect to duty.[b8]