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Definition: FACILITIES |
FACILITIESPlural1. Of Facility |
Date "FACILITIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Electrical Engineering | Transmission lines or circuits, or long distance services. Source: European Union. (references) |
Language | Something designed, built, installed, etc. , to serve a specific function affording a convenience or service: transportation --. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | Something(as a hospital machinery, plumbing)that is built, constructed, installed, or established to perform some particular function or to serve or facilitate some particular end. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Screenplays | They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything. (Ghost Busters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | A view of the facilities at McMurdo Sound Station.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite showing some of the developed facilities and the tracksite, along Red Gulch/Alkali Back Country Byway, Worland Field Office.Credit: Jerry Sintz. |
 | The basketball and volleyball facilities at the Wildwood Recreation Site.Credit: T. Hogervorst. |  | Some of the recreational facilities at the Wildwood Recreation Site.Credit: T. Hogervorst. |
 | Facilities used in the production of coal bed methane, Buffalo Field Office.Credit: Jerry Sintz. |  | U.S. Army, Tripler General Hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii. : View of laundry facilities from a plan.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | ... state-run health facilities of Kromeriz: the surgical department has seven doctors and 120 beds. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Jean Mohr.. |  | Reviewing plan for Community Sanitation Facilities ... White River Indian Reservation, Arizona.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Public Health - United States] : [Map of Environmental Health Facilities in Cincinnati, Ohio].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Distrubution of General Hospital Facilities in the United States / Compiled by T. R. Ponton, M.D.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Germany agrees to give the Tribunal all facilities and information required by it for carrying out its investigations. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | It should carry with it the continuance of the present facilities for mutual security by the joint use of all Naval and Air Force bases in the possession of either country all over the world. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Others are in independent adolescent treatment facilities. (references) | |
E-beams and X-ray facilities do not involve radioactive substances. (references) | ||
The safety of operations of irradiation facilities is regulated separately. (references) | ||
Business | Two other facilities are being established. (references) | |
Most shopping malls have bowling facilities. (references) | ||
The IEAT oversees the facilities at three estates. (references) | ||
Children | Mozambique | Special access facilities are rare. (references) |
Georgia | Outside of Tbilisi, no such facilities exist. (references) | |
Turkmenistan | Out-patient facilities exist in Ashgabat, Yoloten, and Tedjen. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Hungary | On average there are 691 persons in the facilities per day. (references) |
Afghanistan | Various factions maintained their own communications facilities. (references) | |
Eritrea | Camp facilities were basic, but conditions generally were adequate. (references) | |
Discrimination | Singapore | Social, economic, and cultural benefits and facilities are available to all citizens regardless of race, religion, or sex. (references) |
Ireland | The 2000 Equal Status Act outlaws discrimination in the provision of goods, facilities, and services on the basis of these nine grounds. (references) | |
United Kingdom | The 1998 Fair Employment and Treatment Order extended the prohibition on discrimination to the provision of goods, facilities, services, and premises. (references) | |
Economic History | Mauritius | Paging facilities are also available. (references) |
France | Nuclear waste is stored on site at reprocessing facilities. (references) | |
Jordan | Modern cargo-handling facilities exist at the port of Aqaba. (references) | |
Human Rights | Cote d'Ivoire | There still are no health facilities for women. (references) |
Ecuador | There also are separate facilities for juveniles. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | Males and females are housed in separate facilities. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Venezuela | Many indigenous people are isolated from modern civilization and lack access to basic health and educational facilities. (references) |
Minorities | Moldova | They must pay rent for their facilities and meet local curriculum requirements, building codes, and safety standards. (references) |
Nigeria | Many oil companies continued to employ local police and, in some cases, military troops to protect their facilities and personnel. (references) | |
Political Economy | Peru | Overall prison conditions remained poor and were extremely harsh in maximum-security facilities. (references) |
BANGLADESH | In addition numerous factories have insufficient toilet facilities (for example, 1 toilet for 300 employees). (references) | |
Nauru | Media reports indicate that substantial offshore deposits are associated with the country's banking facilities. (references) | |
Political Rights | Saudi Arabia | Al-Masari expressed the CDLR's "understanding" of two fatal terrorist bombings of U.S. military facilities in 1995 and 1996 and sympathy for the perpetrators. (references) |
Trade | Cote D'ivoire | Bonded warehouse facilities are available in Abidjan. (references) |
Chad | Warehouse facilities are available in Douala and N'Djamena. (references) | |
Travel | Colombia | Teleconferencing facilities are available. (references) |
Philippines | Laundry and dry-cleaning facilities are available. (references) | |
Ecuador | Tourist facilities are adequate but vary in quality. (references) | |
Women | United Arab Emirates | In rare cases, children are held in other facilities until the mother's release. (references) |
Morocco | Some families also keep girls at home because of the lack of facilities in rural schools. (references) | |
Ireland | Women's participation in the workforce is hampered by the lack of adequate childcare facilities. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Uganda | Sanitation and water facilities often are lacking. (references) |
Burma | Children often build or repair roads and irrigation facilities. (references) | |
Oman | All employers are required by law to provide first aid facilities. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | In the mean time a reduced expenditure upon established routes has kept pace with increased facilities of public accommodation and additional services have been obtained at reduced rates of compensation. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | If in the course of their growth we should open new channels of trade and create additional facilities for friendly intercourse, the benefits realized will be equal and mutual. |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | The facilities for popular education have been vastly enlarged and more generally diffused. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | By strangling competition, monopolistic activity prevents or deters investment in new or expanded production facilities. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Yet nearly half lack either the funds or the facilities to attend college. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | All members of the public should have equal access to facilities open to the public. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Some judges are reluctant to send convicted criminals to prison because of inadequate facilities. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Private industry will, of course, play a major role in developing the United States' coal export facilities. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is rebuilding facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear program in the past. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "FACILITIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.97% of the time. "FACILITIES" is used about 7,508 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 99.97% | 7,506 | 1,286 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.03% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7,508 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Airport Facilities Co., Ltd. | USA | Wireless Facilities Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "FACILITIES": air navigation facilities ♦ Ambulatory Care Facilities ♦ ancillary facilities ♦ automated toll collection facilities ♦ babysitting facilities ♦ Cancer Care Facilities ♦ Cardiac Care Facilities ♦ child care facilities ♦ Dental Facilities ♦ exchange network facilities for interstate access ♦ give credit facilities ♦ Health Facilities ♦ hospital facilities ♦ Intermediate Care Facilities ♦ key service unit facilities ♦ KSU facilities ♦ mechanical facilities ♦ modern facilities ♦ Parking Facilities ♦ physically separated facilities ♦ poor transportation facilities ♦ port facilities ♦ Public Facilities ♦ recreation facilities ♦ Residential Facilities ♦ roadside facilities ♦ sanitary facilities ♦ Skilled Nursing Facilities ♦ social facilities ♦ sports facilities ♦ supplementary facilities ♦ Toilet Facilities ♦ transport facilities ♦ transportation facilities ♦ underwritten facilities. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "FACILITIES": facilities-including. | |
Ending with "FACILITIES": basic-facilities. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FACILITIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pajisje (amenities, capital goods, device, equipage, equipment, fit out, fitment, fitting, fittings, fixing, fixings, gadget, mounting, provision, rig, rigging, supply, tackle), lehtësira. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | удобства (amenities, conveniences), апаратура (equipments, hardware, plant, rig), благоприятни условия, помощни средства. (various references) | |
Chinese | 设施 (Facility, INST, installation), 設施 (installation), 設備 (equipment, installations). (various references) | |
Czech | zařízení (alarm, apparatus, appliance, appointment, arrangement, contraption, contrivance, device, equipment, facility, furnishing, gadget, installation, institution, unit). (various references) | |
Danish | faciliteter (amenities), seletoej (harness, harness trappings). (various references) | |
Dutch | faciliteit (facility, feature). (various references) | |
Finnish | välineet (apparatus, equipment, plant, tackle), toiminteet. (various references) | |
French | facilités, services, matériel, installations (facility), équipement. (various references) | |
German | Einrichtungen (constitutions, establishments, facility), Ausstattung (accoutrement, allocation, allowance, appointments, bottle dressing, configuration, décor, decorat, dowry, endowment, equipment, fitments, fittings, fixtures, furnishing, furniture, get up, get-up, harness, layout, presentation, production, provisions, vesting), Leichtigkeiten, anlagen (constructions, machinery). (various references) | |
Greek | μέσα (in, inside, into, means, resources, wherewithal, within), ευκολίες (conveniences), διευκολύνσεις. (various references) | |
Hungarian | lehetőségek, létesítmények. (various references) | |
Indonesian | fasilitas (facility). (various references) | |
Italian | servizi (amenities, facility, medical services, public services, restrooms, service, service trades, services, utilities), organizzazione tecnica (harness), attrezzatura (appliance, artillery, business, equipment, facility, factory, harness, installation, kit, machinery, outfit, physical plant, plant, rig, rigging, tackle, tools, works). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 設備 (device, equipment, installation). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せつび (device, equipment, installation, suffix). (various references) | |
Korean | 시설 (Facility, POOL). (various references) | |
Norwegian | muligheter, hjelpemidler. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acilitiesfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | facilidades, recursos (as the means of, assets, resources, wherewithal). (various references) | |
Russian | возможности (scope). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | postrojenja (facility). (various references) | |
Spanish | servicios (amenities, blue room, cloakroom, lavatory, medical services, public services, service, services, toilet, toilets, toilette, utilities), instalaciones, comodidades (amenities). (various references) | |
Swedish | möjligheter (capabilites, wherewithal). (various references) | |
Turkish | tesisler, kolaylıklar (amenities), imkânlar (resources). (various references) | |
Ukranian | можливості (capability). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"FACILITIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: facilitae, facilitas, facilite, facilites, facilitites, faclities, fasciitis, fascilities. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FACILITIES" (pronounced fusi"lutēz) |
| 6 | -i" l u t ē z | abilities, availabilities, capabilities, disabilities, disability, hostilities, instabilities, liabilities, possibilities, probabilities, responsibilities, sensibilities, utilities, vulnerabilities. |
| 5 | -l u t ē z | abnormalities, banalities, brutalities, causalities, commonalities, fatalities, fidelities, formalities, generalities, illegalities, inequalities, infidelities, legalities, localities, modalities, municipalities, nationalities, personalities, principalities, qualities, realities, technicalities, tonalities. |
| 4 | -u t ē z | absurdities, activities, affinities, ambiguities, amenities, animosities, annuities, antiquities, anxieties, atrocities, authorities, calamities, capacities, cavities, celebrities, charities, commodities, communities, complexities, curiosities, deformities, deities, densities, deputies, disparities, divinities, eccentricities, enmities, entities, equities, extremities, festivities, fraternities, gratuities, humanities, humanity, identities, immunities, improprieties, impurities, indemnities, indignities, inequities, infirmities, insecurities, intensities, irregularities, liquidities, majorities, maturities, minorities, necessities, niceties, obscenities, oddities, opportunities, parities, peculiarities, pieties, priorities, proclivities, propensities, quantities, rarities, rigidities, securities, sensitivities, similarities, societies, sororities, unfamiliarities, universities, vanities, varieties, velocities, verities. |
| 3 | -t ē z | amnesties, Antes, beauties, booties, bounties, casualties, certainties, christies, cities, committees, counties, cruelties, diabetes, difficulties, ditties, duties, dynasties, eighties, empties, entreaties, faculties, fatties, fifties, forties, frailties, lefties, liberties, loyalties, Montes, nineties, novelties, panties, parties, patties, penalties, pretties, properties, royalties, seventies, shanties, sixties, sorties, specialities, specialties, subcommittees, subtleties, thirties, travesties, treaties, twenties, uncertainties, vigilantes, warranties, zlotys. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-i-i-l-s-t" | |
-1 letter: italicise. | |
-2 letters: ciliates, citifies, felsitic, fetialis, filiates, silicate. | |
-3 letters: ciliate, elastic, elicits, fecials, fetials, fictile, filiate, ileitis, italics, laciest, laicise, laities, latices. | |
-4 letters: atelic, califs, castle, cities, cleats, clefts, clifts, eclats, elicit, facets, facies, facile, falces, falsie, fecial, festal, fetial, fiesta, filets, fiscal, fistic, fliest, flites, iciest, italic, itself, liaise, saltie, sialic, silica, stelai, stelic, stifle, ticals. | |
-5 letters: aisle, alecs, alefs, alifs, alist, cafes, calfs, calif, caste, cates, ceils, celts, cesta, cesti, cilia, cites, clast, cleat, clefs, cleft, clift, clits, eclat, faces, facet, facts, fails, false, fates, feast, feats, fecal, feist, felts, fetal, fetas, fiats, fices, files, filet, flats, fleas, flics, flies, flite, flits, ileac, iliac, islet, istle, laces, laics, leafs, least, lefts, licit, lifts, litai, litas, saice, salic, scale, setal, slate, slice, stale, steal, stela, stile, taces, taels, tails, talcs, tales, teals, telia, telic, tesla, tical, tiles. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-i-i-i-l-s-t" | |
+2 letters: fictionalise, flaccidities. | |
+3 letters: farcicalities, felicitations, fictionalised, fictionalises, fictionalizes. | |
+4 letters: artificialness, emulsification, fictionalities, scientifically, superficiality. | |
+5 letters: affectabilities, artificialities, codifiabilities, emulsifications, fetishistically, functionalities, latensification. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 41 43 49 4C 49 54 49 45 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- -.-. .. .-.. .. - .. . ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01000001 01000011 01001001 01001100 01001001 01010100 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F A C I L I T I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0041 0043 0049 004C 0049 0054 0049 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40353743464354433953 |
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