Faculty

Definition: Faculty

Faculty

Noun

1. One of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind.

2. The body of teachers and administrators at a school; "the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "faculty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Faculty \Fac"ul*ty\, noun; plural Faculties. [French faculté, Latin facultas, from facilis easy (compare to facul easily), from fecere to make. See Fact, and compare to Facility.]. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Faculty

Business

Vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty; industry, art; industrial arts; craft, mystery, handicraft; trade; (commerce).

Power

Capability, capacity; quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent; faculty, quality, attribute, endowment, virtue, gift, property, qualification, susceptibility.

Skill

Cleverness, talent, ability, ingenuity, capacity, parts, talents, faculty, endowment, forte, turn, gift, genius; intelligence; sharpness, readiness; (activity); invention; aptness, turn for, capacity for, genius for; felicity, capability, curiosa felicitas, qualification, habilitation.

Speech

Noun: speech, faculty of speech; locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle; effusion.

Crosswords: Faculty

I never guess: it is an appalling habit, destructive to the logical faculty. A private study is an ideal place for observing facets of a man's character (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; writing credit: Arthur Conan Doyle; Nicholas Meyer)

Everyone's been acting really weird, especially the faculty. (The Faculty; writing credit: David Wechter; Bruce Kimmel)

How infinite in faculty. In form and moving how express and admirable (Hamlet; writing credit: William Shakespeare; Kenneth Branagh)

Perceptive Faculty 2 (2000)

The Faculty (1998)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Faculty of Color in Academe: Bittersweet Success (reference)

• Job Search in Academe: Strategic Rhetorics for Faculty Job Candidates (reference)

• Experimental and Clinical Studies on the Antiemetic Effects of Propofol (Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of medicine (reference)

• Guide for Administrators and Faculty to Abet Accrediation in Environmental Engineering (reference)

• Clinician to Academician: A Handbook for Those Who Aspire to Become Faculty Members (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Association Of The Clinical Faculty Membership (reference)

• Bulletin : Faculty Of Agriculture University Of Cairo (reference)

• Faculty Grants Newsletter (reference)

• Survey For Academic Compensation & Production For Faculty & Management (reference)

• Metu Journal Of The Faculty Of Architecture (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Faculty (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Steel Drum Faculty Showcase (reference)

• The Faculty (1998 Film) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Figure 39. Portier and Richard microbe sampling bottle invented by Doctor Paul Portier of the Laboratory of Physiology of the Faculty of Sciences, Paris, and Doctor Jules Richard, director of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco in 1902. It was a great improvement over preceding models and gave very pure samples. It was tested between 1000 and 3000 meters depth off the Azores in 1902. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Faculty and staff of Department of Geography at Shanghai Normal University. Credit: Small World.

[Class of 1920 faculty and graduates]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Army Sanitary School, Langres, Hte. Marne, France. : Faculty of the Army Sanitary School. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Tomsk State University, former Faculty Clinic of the Medical Institute (early 20th century), Tomsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

The Brewster manner was always affable and his faculty of remembering old acquaintances was gratifying. Credit: Library of Congress.

Intuition (left), a faculty shared by women and the lower animals. Credit: Library of Congress.

T.N.I.I. Faculty, '97. Credit: Library of Congress.

Students, university faculty, Norman and Oklahoma city townspeople surge around cars which were to be the hub of Friday's demonstration--Center car had loud speaker unit. Credit: Library of Congress.

Faculty marching to chapel, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And Bruno, having quite exhausted all his inventive faculty, by beginning in too great a hurry, quietly resigned himself to listening

He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament

And these were all the notions he had concerning that faculty of lying, so perfectly well understood among human creatures

Men seeing the nature of this man like that of the brute, think that he has never possessed the innate faculty of reason

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

In contrast, their faculty for receptive language-understanding what is said-is close to normal. (references)

These multifaceted collaborative initiatives, which combine an accelerated search for causes, an assault on the effects of the disease, and vigorous efforts to prevent onset, will energize the fight against AD and bring us closer to the day when we will be able to prevent or even cure this terrible disease, which robs our older relatives and friends of their most precious faculty �" their minds. (references)

Business

Most of the faculty is “visiting” faculty. (references)

However, there is a serious shortage of permanent faculty in a majority of the institutes. (references)

Ethnic Tibetans resent disproportionate Han representation in the student body and faculty. (references)

Civil Liberties

Egypt

Under the previous law, faculty deans were elected by their peers. (references)

Uganda

Students and faculty have sponsored wide-ranging political debates in open forums. (references)

India

Academic freedom is not restricted, and students and faculty espouse a wide range of views. (references)

Economic History

Brunei Darussalam

Opened in 1985, the university has a faculty of more than 300 instructors and is located on a sprawling campus overlooking the South China Sea. (references)

Argentina

The only domestic Argentine degree in film is offered through the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Architecture, which requires completion of the rigorous standard curriculum. (references)

China

U.S. educational organizations can also vend teaching materials and equipment, convey the latest methodologies and case studies, lend or exchange faculty, and provide educational consulting services. (references)

Human Rights

Belarus

Several other faculty members also were charged; there were no reports concerning the disposition of their cases by year's end. (references)

Tunisia

In July the Minister of Health fired Marzouki from his job as a doctor and professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Sousse University. (references)

Tunisia

On November 2-3, university police armed with truncheons beat UGET leaders and prevented them from entering the faculty of science in Monastir. (references)

Minorities

Israel and the occupied territories

Arab citizens hold fewer than 60 of the country's 5,000 university faculty positions. (references)

Macedonia

Most university education is conducted in the Macedonian language; until 2001 there was Albanian-language university education only for students at Skopje University's teacher training faculty. (references)

Women

Belarus

A private university in Minsk established the country's first gender studies faculty in 1997. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "faculty": comprehensive faculty ♦ Dean of faculty ♦ disturbed writing faculty ♦ Elaborative faculty ♦ engineering faculty ♦ faculty member ♦ Faculty of advocates ♦ faculty of arts ♦ faculty of judgment ♦ faculty of law ♦ faculty of medicine ♦ faculty of science ♦ faculty of speech ♦ faculty of university ♦ mental faculty ♦ moral faculty ♦ Nursing Faculty Practice ♦ procreative faculty ♦ science faculty ♦ sensory faculty ♦ the risible faculty. Additional references.

Beginning with "faculty": faculty-based, faculty-wide.

Ending with "faculty": sub-faculty.

Albanian

fakultet (college, department, school). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كلية فرع من جامعة, ‏ملكة عقلية, ‏ملكة (queen, talent), ‏قوة (ability, agency, arm, authority, birr, capacity, clout, dint, energy, force, forcefulness, forcing, hardihood, intension, intensity, iron, leverage, might, operation, potency, power, severity, sinew, solidity, stamina, starch, stoutness, strength, vehemence, vigor, vigour, violence, virility, virtue), ‏قابلية (capability, disposition, predisposition, susceptibility, tendency), ‏قدرة (ability, capability, capacity, fitness, leverage, might, potency, power, qualification, strength), ‏صلا حية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

умение (ability, accomplishment, address, art, artifice, cleverness, facility, know how, proficiency, quality, savoir faire, science, skill, sleight, workmanship), способност (ability, aptness, bump, capability, capacity, competence, competency, efficiency, fitness, flair, notion, power, quality, sufficiency, turn), факултет (school), медицинска професия, преподаватели в даден колеж, дарба (ability, appanage, aptitude, competence, competency, dowry, endowment, flair, genius, gift). (various references)

Chinese 

系 (be, department, system, to tie), 教职员 (Faculties), 學院 (college, educational institute, school). (various references)

Czech

fakulta (school), vlohy (aptitude, bent, gift), talent (ability, capabilities, genius, gift, talent), schopnost (ability, aptitude, capability, efficiency, hand, intellect, power, skill, talent, vocation), nadání (aptitude, genius, gift, talent). (various references)

Danish

fakultet (factorial). (various references)

Dutch

faculteit (factorial). (various references)

Esperanto

fakultato. (various references)

Finnish

tiedekunta (department). (various references)

French

faculté. (various references)

Frisian

fakulteit. (various references)

German

Fakultät (factorial), fähigkeit (ability, aptitude, capability, competence, efficiency, feature, literacy, property, skill, skillfulness). (various references)

Greek 

καθηγητικό σώμα, έμφυτη ικανότητα, σχολή (holiday, leisure, school, vacation), ικανότητα (ability, aptitude, aptitude for, caliber, calibre, capability, capableness, capacity, competence, efficiency, fitness, knack, proficiency, prowess, skill, sufficiency), ιδιότητα (attribute, capacity, nature, property, quality, rating), δύναμη (brawn, force, manpower, might, pithiness, potency, power, puissance, robustness, strength, sturdiness, thews, vigor, vigorousness, vigour, vim, virtue), διεύθυνση (address, direction, intandancy, management). (various references)

Hawaiian

fakultet. (various references)

Hebrew 

יכולת (ability, capability, capacity, competence, possibility, power), כושר (ability, aptitude, capability, capacity, power, propriety, worthiness). (various references)

Hungarian

tehetség (ability, accomplishment, aptitude, art, capacity, disposition, dower, endowment, facility, genious, gift, talent, vein, vocation), tantestület, rátermettség (aptitude, caliber, calibre, dower, efficiency, gift, suitability), kar (arm, chorus, faculty of arts, hand, handle, lever, pinion, quire, school, wing), képesség (ability, absorptivity, accomplishment, attainments, caliber, calibre, capability, capacity, dower, facility, genious, gift, reach, talent), fakultás (school), egyetemi kar. (various references)

Indonesian

fakultas (registrar), pancaindra (the five senses), kemampuan (ability, capability, competence), kecakapan (facility, qualification, skill). (various references)

Italian

facolt� (capability, knack, school, warrantirs), facolta'. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

能力　 (ability), 能力 (ability), 力 (ability, agency, attainment, authority, capability, efficacy, emphasis, endeavors, energy, exertions, force, good offices, help, influence, means, might, power, resources, strength, stress, support, vigor), 教職�"� (teaching staff), 教授陣 (group of professors, professorate), 機能　 (function), 機能 (function). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きのう (air bladder or sac, function, inductive, take up farming again, yesterday), きょうしょくい�" (teaching staff), きょうじゅじ�" (group of professors, professorate), のうりょく (ability), ちから (ability, agency, attainment, authority, capability, efficacy, emphasis, endeavors, energy, exertions, force, good offices, help, influence, means, might, power, resources, strength, stress, support, vigor). (various references)

Korean 

능� � (Abilities, Ability, Capabilities, Capability, Faculties). (various references)

Manx

pooar (influence, power, province, puissance, warrant), olloo-rheynn, kied (assent, first, furlough, leave, pass, permission, permit, primary, sanction, senior; licence, sufferance), fondid (ableness, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, solidity, stability, sufficency, validity), ablid (ability, adroitness, capacity). (various references)

Norwegian

fakultet, evne (capability). (various references)

Papiamen

fakultat. (various references)

Pig Latin

acultyfay.(various references)

Portuguese

faculdade (ability, capacitance, capacity, college, energy, power, school). (various references)

Romanian

facultate (aptitude, college, school, talent), talent (ability, accomplishments, aptitude, capability, dower, dowry, endowment, facility, felicity, genius, gift, ingenuity, knack, part, skill, talent, turn, twist), resurse (means, resources, sinew), permisiune (allowance, authorization, grant, leave, liberty, permission, permit), autoritate (ascendency, authorities, authority, command, control, credit, cropper, force, governance, government, hold, importance, influence, jurisdiction, lordship, masterdom, mastery, power, rulership), aptitudine intelectualã, aptitudine fizicã. (various references)

Russian 

способность (ability, aptitude, aptness, capability, capacity, competence, facility, flair, gift, power, skills and talents). (various references)

Scottish

uirghioll (faculty of speech). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

fakultet (college, school), sposobnost (ability, acumen, aptitude, aptness, capability, capacity, competence, competency, facility, fitness, talent, touch), nastavničko osoblje, moć (capability, grasp, leverage, might, mightiness, potency, power). (various references)

Spanish

facultad (capacity, power, school, warrantirs), profesorado (professorate, professoriate, professorship), posibilidad (chance, competence, competency, danger, ease, easiness, eventuality, hope, innings, likelihood, opportunity, possibility, prospect), aptitud (ability, applicability, aptitude, aptness, caliber, calibre, competence, competency, eligibility, equipment, fitness, flair, qualification, turn). (various references)

Swedish

fakultet (school), förmåga (ability, capability, capacity, man of ability, power, talent). (various references)

Turkish

fakülte (college), yetki (authority, authorization, command, competence, competency, fiat, power, sword, vis, warrant, warranty), yeti (abominable snowman), yetenek (ability, accomplishment, accomplishments, aptitude, aptness, artistry, bent, caliber, calibre, capability, capacity, competence, competency, disposition, dower, dowry, efficiency, facility, fitness, flair, gift, hand, instinct, parts, power, prerogative, quality, skill, talent, vocation), yapma özgürlüğü, kabiliyet (accomplishments, aptitude, aptness, capability, capacity, dower, flair, gift, instinct, prerogative, quality, skill, talent, vocation), imtiyaz (concession, franchise, grant, prerogative, privilege, royalty), beceri (ability, accomplishment, accomplishments, address, adroitness, art, artfulness, artifice, attainments, craft, cunning, deftness, dexterity, feat, finesse, ingeniousness, ingenuity, knack, know how, resource, savoir faire, science, skill, sleight, wizardry), ayrıcalık (benefit, cachet, charter, concession, concessionairy, eligibility, Favor, favour, franchise, immunity, incident, oracle, peculiar, prerogative, privilege, refusal, royalty, speciality), allah vergisi (dowry, gift, innate, innate talent). (various references)

Turkmen 

fakultяet (r). (various references)

Ukrainian

факультет, влада (arm, ascendance, ascendancy, ascendant, attribution, authority, cathedra, command, domination, grip, gripe, hold, in, lordship, reign, rod), здібність (ability, aptitude, aptness, brightness, bump, capability, cleverness, felicity, talent, turn, verve). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tính năng, khả năng (capability, possibility, potentiality, power, reach, room), các ông lang. (various references)

Welsh

cynneddf (quality), cyfadran (period). (various references)

ýaoxshtivañtem. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "faculty": interfaculty, nonfaculty. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Faculty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: facely, facilty, factuly, facuilty, facult, Faculte, fakulty, fasolt, faultly. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: faulty.

-2 letters: fatly, fault, fluty, fluyt.

-3 letters: acyl, calf, caul, clay, cult, fact, flat, flay, lacy, talc, tufa, yuca.

-4 letters: act, aft, alt, cat, cay, cut, fat, fay, flu, fly, lac, lat, lay, tau, uta.

-5 letters: al, at, ay, fa, la, ta, ut, ya.

+2 letters: factually, tactfully.

+3 letters: factiously, factuality, flatulency, nonfaculty, watchfully.

+4 letters: effectually, facetiously, fractiously.

+5 letters: effectuality, factitiously, functionally, interfaculty, unaffectedly.