FACILITIES
Noun
facilities
plural of facility
Noun
facilities pl (plural only)
synonym of facility in certain contexts.
(euphemism) Facilities for urination and defecation: a toilet; a lavatory.
Usage notes
This word is plural (and takes plural verbs) even when referring to a single facility or lavatory. It can also refer to multiple lavatories.
Synonyms
• (toilet): See toilet and bathroom
Source: Wiktionary
FACILITY
Fa*cil"i*ty, n.; pl. Facilities. Etym: [L. facilitas, fr. facilis easy: cf. F. facilitFacile.]
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.
– 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 bunker, 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 obey the known will of God is the surest means to enlighten the mind in respect to duty."
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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