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faculty
English
Etymology
From Middle English faculte (“power, property”), from Old French faculte, from Latin facultas (“capability, ability, skill, abundance, plenty, stock, goods, property; in Medieval Latin also a body of teachers”), another form of facilitas (“easiness, facility, etc.”), from facul, another form of facilis (“easy, facile”); see facile.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fæ.k?l.ti/
Noun
faculty (plural faculties)
- (chiefly US) The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
- A division of a university.
- Often in the plural: an ability, power, or skill.
- An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
- (Church of England) A licence to make alterations to a church.
- The members of a profession.
Usage notes
In the sense of academic staff at a university, academic staff, teaching staff or simply staff are preferred in British English.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:faculty
Related terms
- facultative
Translations
Further reading
- faculty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- faculty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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apartment
English
Alternative forms
- APT (The US Postal Service prefers this variant)
- apt.
Etymology
From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??p??t.m?nt/
- (General American) enPR: ?-pärt'm?nt, IPA(key): /??p??t.m?nt/
Noun
apartment (plural apartments)
- (chiefly Canada, US) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- I am Jonathan. I am in apartment B4. — I am in apartment C2.
- I am Jonathan. I am in apartment B4. — I am in apartment C2.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- (archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.
- By this contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined. There I saw the empress and the young princes in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.
- (obsolete) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment
- 1883 April 23, Slawson v. Grand Street R. Co., 107 U.S. 649, 2 S.Ct. 663, 664,
- The specification described the ordinary fare-box used in street cars and omnibuses, consisting of two apartments, the one directly above the other.... [T]he passenger deposited his fare in an aperture in the top of the upper apartment. It fell upon and was arrested by a movable platform.... This platform turned on an axis acted on by a lever. When turned, the fare fell into the lower apartment, which was a receptacle for holding the fares accumulated....
- 1883 April 23, Slawson v. Grand Street R. Co., 107 U.S. 649, 2 S.Ct. 663, 664,
- (computing, COM) A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy.
Synonyms
- (domicile occupying part of a building): flat (UK); unit; (compare with) condominium
Derived terms
- apartment building
- apartment block
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??????? (ap?tomento)
- ? Thai: ??????????? (à-páat-mén)
Translations
See also
- tenement
Malay
Noun
apartment (plural apartment-apartment, informal 1st possessive apartmentku, impolite 2nd possessive apartmentmu, 3rd possessive apartmentnya)
- apartment
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