Ever need a fact or quotation on facilities? Designed for speechwriters, journalists, writers, researchers, students, professors, teachers, historians, academics, scrapbookers, trivia buffs and word lovers, this is the largest book ever created for this single word. It represents a compilation from a variety of sources with a linguistic emphasis on anything relating to the term “facilities,” including non-conventional usage and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities. The entries cover all parts of speech (noun, verb, adverb or adjective usage) as well as use in modern slang, pop culture, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This “data dump” results in many unexpected examples for facilities, since the editorial decision to include or exclude terms is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under “fair use” conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. Proceeds from this book are used to expand the content and coverage of Webster’s Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org).

Familiar Quotations

Facilities

That which is acquired without difficulty is dispersed with equal facility.–Anonymous

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.–Thomas Beecham

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.–William Mathews

A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behooves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.–John Pym

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.–Ted Ward

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.–Lord Peter Wimsey

Facilities – "Ability"

Availability is better than ability for God.–Anonymous

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.–Anonymous

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.–Aristippus

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.–Bernard Baruch

• Preface vii
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Facilities 1
• Facilities – "Ability" 1
• Facilities – "Aid" 2
• Facilities – "Ease" 2
• Use in Literature 3
• Facilities 3
• Facilities – "Ability" 14
• Facilities – "Acquired" 16
• Facilities – "Action" 17
• Facilities – "Affairs" 17
• Facilities – "Arranged" 18
• Facilities – "Authority" 19
• Facilities – "Being" 19
• Facilities – "Belief" 20
• Facilities – "Business" 21
• Facilities – "Calling" 22
• Facilities – "Case" 23
• Facilities – "Characterised" 23
• Facilities – "Circumstance" 24
• Facilities – "Cities" 25
• Facilities – "Clearer" 25
• Facilities – "Commerce" 26
• Facilities – "Communication" 27
• Facilities – "Condition" 27
• Facilities – "Country" 28
• Facilities – "Day" 28
• Facilities – "Different" 29
• Facilities – "Difficulty" 30
• Facilities – "Doubt" 31
• Facilities – "Ease" 31
• Facilities – "Easy" 32
• Facilities – "Effecting" 33
• Facilities – "Ends" 33
• Facilities – "English" 34
• Facilities – "Expressed" 34
• Facilities – "Favour" 35
• Facilities – "Few" 36
• Facilities – "Formerly" 37
• Facilities – "Found" 37
• Facilities – "French" 39
• Facilities – "Great" 39
• Facilities – "Ground" 43
• Facilities – "Hand" 44
• Facilities – "Hard" 45
• Facilities – "Having" 45
• Facilities – "House" 46
• Facilities – "Imagination" 47
• Facilities – "Increased" 47
• Facilities – "Interest" 49
• Facilities – "Kind" 49
• Facilities – "Land" 50
• Facilities – "Language" 50
• Facilities – "Large" 51
• Facilities – "Learned" 52
• Facilities – "Letters" 53
• Facilities – "Life" 53
• Facilities – "Little" 54
• Facilities – "Made" 55
• Facilities – "Men" 57
• Facilities – "Manner" 59
• Facilities – "Material" 60
• Facilities – "Matter" 60
• Facilities – "Means" 61
• Facilities – "Measure" 63
• Facilities – "Method" 63
• Facilities – "Movement" 64
• Facilities – "Natural" 65
• Facilities – "Numbers" 67
• Facilities – "Objected" 67
• Facilities – "Observed" 68
• Facilities – "Obtain" 69
• Facilities – "Offered" 69
• Facilities – "Offices" 70
• Facilities – "Once" 71
• Facilities – "Open" 72
• Facilities – "Operations" 72
• Facilities – "Order" 73
• Facilities – "Parts" 74
• Facilities – "Passing" 75
• Facilities – "People" 75
• Facilities – "Placing" 76
• Facilities – "Point" 78
• Facilities – "Position" 78
• Facilities – "Possessed" 80
• Facilities – "Possible" 80
• Facilities – "Power" 81
• Facilities – "Practice" 81
• Facilities – "Presents" 82
• Facilities – "Purpose" 83
• Facilities – "Read" 84
• Facilities – "Reasonable" 85
• Facilities – "Rest" 86
• Facilities – "Sense" 86
• Facilities – "Soon" 87
• Facilities – "State" 87
• Facilities – "Succession" 88
• Facilities – "System" 89
• Facilities – "Things" 90
• Facilities – "Thought" 90
• Facilities – "Thus" 91
• Facilities – "Transportation" 93
• Facilities – "Travelled" 93
• Facilities – "Various" 94
• Facilities – "Water" 95
• Facilities – "Whatever" 95
• Facilities – "Words" 96
• Facilities – "Work" 96
• Facilities – "Writing" 98
• Facilities – "Year" 99
• Facilities – "Young" 100
• Nonfiction Usage 102
• Script Usage 102
• Historical Usage 102
• Presidential Usage 103
• Journalism Usage 105
• Encyclopedic Usage 397
• Lexicographic Usage 528
• Index 654