| 单词 | faculty |
| 释义 | faculty (once / 197 pages) 1n 2n A faculty refers to any of your mental or physical abilities. If you lose your faculties, you are powerless. The faculty of a school is comprised of the people who work there. Lose them, and you have a different kind of problem. Faculty comes from the Old French word faculté, which means “skill, accomplishment, or learning.” You may have great faculties of memory, sight, mobility, charm, math, and musicality, but, as Beethoven was in the end, be robbed of your faculty of hearing. Any aptitude or ability — inborn or learned — that you have is a faculty. Also, if you go to school, your teachers make up the faculty of that school. WORD FAMILYfaculty: faculties USAGE EXAMPLESThe faculty of Strain-Japan say they see and appreciate these advantages. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Problems arose immediately for students, faculty and administrators. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) “All media are extensions of some human faculty – psychic or physical,” he wrote. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) 1 n one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper mental faculty, module attention the faculty or power of mental concentration language, speechthe mental faculty or power of vocal communication memory, retention, retentiveness, retentivitythe power of retaining and recalling past experience intellect, reason, understandingthe capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiencythe faculty through which the external world is apprehended volition, willthe capability of conscious choice and decision and intention modality, sense modality, sensory systema particular sense velleityvolition in its weakest form sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation absorption, concentration, engrossment, immersioncomplete attention; intense mental effort mental notespecial attention with intent to remember alertness, vigilance, wakefulness, watchfulnessthe process of paying close and continuous attention anamnesis, recollection, remembrancethe ability to recall past occurrences ability, power possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done n the body of teachers and administrators at a school Syn|Hyper staff body a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity |
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