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Facility vs Participate - What's the difference?

facility | participate |

As a noun facility

is the fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity.

As a verb participate is

to join in, to take part, to involve oneself ((in) something).

As an adjective participate is

(obsolete) acting in common; participating.

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

    participate

    English

    Verb

    (participat)
  • To join in, to take part, to involve oneself ((in) something).
  • (obsolete) To share, share in (something).
  • * 1638 , , Some Yeares Travels , I:
    • they seldome feed together, lest they might participate one anothers impurity: each has his owne cup [...].
  • (obsolete) To share (something) (with) others; to transfer (something) (to) or (unto) others.
  • * 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World , II:
    • Make the Earth [...] turn round its own axis in twenty four hours, and towards the same point with all the other Spheres; and without participating this same motion to any other Planet or Star.

    Related terms

    * participant * participation * participative * participator * participatory * participial * participle

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Acting in common; participating.
  • * 1608 , , I. i. 101:
    • And, mutually participate , did minister / Unto the appetite and affection common / Of the whole body.

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