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Facility vs Offtake - What's the difference?

facility | offtake |

As nouns the difference between facility and offtake

is that facility is the fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity while offtake is a point or channel of drainage or off-flow; offlet.

As a verb offtake is

(obsolete) to take off; take away.

facility

English

Noun

(facilities)
  • The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity.
  • *, II.12:
    • Clytomachus'' affirmed, that he could never understand by the writings of ''Carneades'', what opinion he was of. Why hath ''Epicurus interdicted facility unto his Sectaries?
  • Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
    • The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.
  • The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
    • Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black)
    • , chapter=1, title= Internal Combustion , passage=As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities .}}
  • (North America, in the plural) A toilet.

    • Derived terms

    * correctional facility

    offtake

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To take off; take away.

    • Noun

  • A point or channel of drainage or off-flow; offlet.
  • (mining) The removal of oil (or an industrial chemical) from a storage facility.

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