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Facility

noun

(pl. facilities)

A building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry. Synonym: installation.

Skillful performance or ability without difficulty. Synonyms: adeptness, adroitness, deftness, quickness. "He was famous for his facility as an archer"

A natural effortlessness. Synonym: readiness. "A happy readiness of conversation"

Something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service. "Toilet facilities" , "Educational facilities"

A service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you.

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"Facility" Quotes from Famous Books

... depends on chance whether this disorganized constitution will ever take new shape or not ... and as I said yesterday, I should have more hope if the city were but young; seeing that not only does a state at the commencement take form with greater facility than one that has grown old under evil governments, but things always turn out more prosperously and more easily while fortune is yet fresh and has not run its course,' etc.[3] In reading the Dialogue on the Constitution of Florence it must finally be remembered ...

— Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) • John Addington Symonds

... angrily that his ears were less quick, and that he had not such a useless facility for picking up words ...

— A Soldier of the Legion • C. N. Williamson

... who is really in earnest, however, in the desire to help another, will never give up because there are difficulties to overcome. The visitor may not know, but as compared with the homemaker in a poor family, has far more time and a greater facility, perhaps, in learning. The visitor's best teachers are friends that have had experience, and the poor themselves. One can learn a great deal from the more frugal and industrious of the very poor, and these are proud to explain {66} their ...

— Friendly Visiting among the Poor - A Handbook for Charity Workers • Mary Ellen Richmond

... exclaimed, with unfeigned surprise and admiration, "Leech and Keene could not only draw light—they could even draw the wind!" And with all this he told his story in his drawings more completely than any man of his day; he appealed to every class of society, and touched them all with equal facility, with equal good-humour, brightness, and beauty. His power of legend-writing, too, was remarkable—his explanatory lines beneath the drawings being as concise and happy as what they described. Says Mr. Silver: "As brevity is the soul of wit, he always made ...

— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann

... finished manuscript is submitted to the chief of the bureau for final approval to ensure accuracy of statement. While the United States bureaus are not allowed to give their official endorsement to books, yet they are all eager to afford every facility to the author to take up their branch next. These are the very books that will develop boys into well-informed and valuable citizens of these United States, alive to the needs of conservation of the vast resources and ...

— The Cabin on the Prairie • C. H. (Charles Henry) Pearson

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