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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: facile - faction</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="facile"> facile, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. easily done or used; taking little effort. Ex. Lazy people seek facile tasks. Facile methods speed up work. <DD> 2. moving, acting, or working easily or rapidly. Ex. The gossip has a facile tongue. He writes in a facile style. (SYN) ready, expert, dexterous. <DD> 3. of easy manners or temper; gentle; agreeable; yielding. Ex. Her facile nature adapted itself to any group of people without effort. Since Adam and his facile consort Eve lost Paradise (Milton). (SYN) flexible, mild. <DD> 4. (Obsolete.) easy to understand. adv. facilely. noun facileness. </DL> <A NAME="facileprinceps"> facile princeps,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) easily the first or foremost. </DL> <A NAME="facilisdescensusaverno"> facilis descensus Averno or Averni,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) easy is the descent to Avernus (or of Avernus); the path to hell is easy (Virgil, Aeneid 6:126). </DL> <A NAME="facilitate"> facilitate, transitive verb, -tated, -tating.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to make easy; lessen the labor of; help forward (a process). Ex. Mother's vacuum cleaner facilitates her housework. Removing a splinter from a wound facilitates healing. (SYN) expedite. <DD> 2. to assist (a person). noun facilitator. </DL> <A NAME="facilitation"> facilitation, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act or process of facilitating. <DD> 2. (Psychology.) greater ease of performance of an action resulting from simultaneous performance of another action, from increased ease of transmission of nerve impulse, or prior performance of the same action. </DL> <A NAME="facilitative"> facilitative, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> facilitating; helpful. </DL> <A NAME="facilitatory"> facilitatory, adjective. =facilitative.</DL> <A NAME="facility"> facility, noun, pl. -ties.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. absence of difficulty; ease. Ex. Long practice enabled the storekeeper to add up long columns of figures with facility. The facility of communication is far greater now than it was a hundred years ago. easiness. <DD> 2. the power to do anything easily, quickly, and smoothly; skill in using the hands or mind. Ex. The boy ran and dodged with such facility that no one could catch him. (SYN) knack, readiness, aptitude, dexterity. <DD> 3. Usually, facilities. something that makes an action easy; an aid; a convenience. Ex. Ropes, swings, and sand piles are facilities for play. The new hospital's research facilities are excellent. <DD> 4. a place built or set aside to provide a special service. Ex. the mental hygiene facility of a hospital. A regional computer facility ... will serve as a research centre for affiliated bodies (London Times). <DD> 5. easygoing quality; tendency to yield to others. Ex. The facility of Charles was such as has perhaps never been found in any man of equal sense (Macaulay). (SYN) affability, pliancy. </DL> <A NAME="facinerious"> facinerious, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Obsolete.) facinorous. </DL> <A NAME="facing"> facing, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a covering of different material for ornament or protection. Ex. A wooden house sometimes has a brick facing. <DD> 2. a material put around the inside or outside edge of cloth to protect or trim it. Ex. a blue coat with red facings on the collar and cuffs. <DD> 3. anything used for these purposes. <DD> 4. (Military.) a turning to the right, left, or in the opposite direction in response to a command. expr. facings, the cuffs, collar, and trimmings of a military coat. Ex. ... your tawny coats with greasy facings (Lodowick Barry). </DL> <A NAME="facingmachine"> facing machine,<DL COMPACT><DD> a machine that lines up letters uniformly for automatic sorting and postmarking. </DL> <A NAME="facingslip"> facing slip,<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a slip of paper bearing particulars such as destination and date, attached in a post office to each bag of mail. </DL> <A NAME="facingtool"> facing tool,<DL COMPACT><DD> a cutting tool for smoothing work on a lathe. </DL> <A NAME="facinorous"> facinorous, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) extremely wicked; atrocious; vile. </DL> <A NAME="faciobrachial"> faciobrachial, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with both the face and the arm. </DL> <A NAME="faciocervical"> faciocervical, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with both the face and the neck. </DL> <A NAME="faciolingual"> faciolingual, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with both the face and the tongue (used of a form of paralysis). </DL> <A NAME="fackeltanz"> fackeltanz, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a torchlight procession held formerly at some of the German courts on the marriage of a member of the royal family. <DD> 2. a musical composition designed for such a procession. </DL> <A NAME="facon"> facon, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) <DD> 1. make; style. <DD> 2. workmanship. </DL> <A NAME="facondagir"> facon d'agir,<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) way of acting; behavior. </DL> <A NAME="facondeparler"> facon de parler,<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) way of speaking. </DL> <A NAME="facsim"> facsim.,<DL COMPACT><DD> facsimile. </DL> <A NAME="facsimile"> facsimile, noun, verb, -led, -leing, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. an exact copy or likeness; perfect reproduction. Ex. A coupon or reasonable facsimile is required to enter the contest. (SYN) duplicate, counterpart. <DD> 2. an electronic process for transmitting images, such as printed matter or photographs, by electrical means over wire or radio, and reproducing them on paper at the receiving set. <DD>v.t. to make a facsimile of. <DD>adj. 1. being a facsimile. Ex. a facsimile signature. <DD> 2. producing facsimiles. Ex. facsimile transmission. expr. in facsimile, exactly; in exact counterpart. Ex. The inscription is produced in facsimile (Daniel Wilson). </DL> <A NAME="facsimilemachine"> facsimile machine, =fax machine.</DL> <A NAME="facsimilemail"> facsimile mail,<DL COMPACT><DD> mail sent by facsimile transmission. </DL> <A NAME="facsimiletelegraph"> facsimile telegraph,<DL COMPACT><DD> a telegraphic device for transmitting facsimiles of written messages, drawings, or photographs. </DL> <A NAME="fact"> fact, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a thing known to be true; thing known to have happened. Ex. scientific facts. It is a fact that the Pilgrims sailed to America on the Mayflower in 1620. Nobler than any fact My wish that failed of act (John Greenleaf Whittier). <DD> 2. what is true; what has happened; state of things; truth; reality. Ex. The fact is, I did not want to go to the dance. Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts (Emerson). (SYN) actuality. <DD> 3. a thing said or supposed to be true or to have really happened. Ex. We doubted his facts. <DD> 4. (Law.) <DD> a. a crime or offense. Ex. an accessory after the fact. <DD> b. anything that is known or alleged to have occurred in connection with a case (as distinguished from a principle or rule). Ex. A question of fact is decided by the jury, a question of law by the court. <DD> 5. (Obsolete.) a deed; act. expr. as a matter of fact, in point of actual fact; indeed. Ex. He and I have met before; as a matter of fact, we were once on the same football team. expr. in fact, as a matter of fact; truly; really. Ex. He was touched by a feeling of awe as if he had in fact been given his death sentence by the doctor (Graham Greene). All of Britain, in fact, seems a sort of Old Curiosity Shop (Harper's). </DL> <A NAME="facta"> facta, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the plural of factum. </DL> <A NAME="factfinder"> fact-finder, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. an investigator; researcher. <DD> 2. a person selected to find, arrange, and evaluate issues and their background in a dispute, and sometimes to recommend a plan to settle it. Ex. Steel-strike fact-finders failed in an attempt to get a last-minute settlement (Wall Street Journal). </DL> <A NAME="factfinding"> fact-finding, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. =investigation. <DD> 2. =mediation. <DD>adj. 1. of or having to do with investigation; investigating. Ex. a fact-finding study of immigration. <DD> 2. having to do with mediation; mediating. Ex. a fact-finding panel. </DL> <A NAME="facticity"> facticity, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> factuality; factualness. Ex. It was known all over the church that a man had denied the facticity of certain miracles (Time). </DL> <A NAME="faction"> faction (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a group of people in a political party, church, club, neighborhood, or other body or organization who stand up for their side or act together for some common purpose against the rest of a larger group. Ex. A faction in our club tried to make the president resign. Public tranquility was disturbed by a discontented faction (Edward Gibbon). (SYN) party, group. <DD> 2. a selfish or unscrupulous group. (SYN) clique, cabal. <DD> 3. strife or quarreling among the members of a political party, church, club, neighborhood, or other body or organization. Ex. Faction almost broke up the club. (SYN) dissension. <DD> 4. (Obsolete.) a set of persons; class; sort. </DL> <A NAME="faction"> faction (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a story, description or other narrative based on facts but written as fiction; writing that combines fact and fiction. Ex. [Alex] Haley maintained that he had created a work of "faction," historical material made readable by fictional embellishment (Philip Kopper). </DL> <A HREF="factiona.dic">NEXT</A>