faculties / ˈfæk əl ti /

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faculties 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural fac·ul·ties.

  1. an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
  2. one of the powers of the mind, as memory, reason, or speech: Though very sick, he is in full possession of all his faculties.
  3. an inherent capability of the body: the faculties of sight and hearing.
  4. exceptional ability or aptitude: a president with a faculty for management.
  5. Education. the entire teaching and administrative force of a university, college, or school.one of the departments of learning, as theology, medicine, or law, in a university.the teaching body, sometimes with the students, in any of these departments.
  6. the members of a learned profession: the medical faculty.
  7. a power or privilege conferred by the state, a superior, etc.: The police were given the faculty to search the building.
  8. Ecclesiastical. a dispensation, license, or authorization.

faculties 近义词

n. 名词 noun

ability, skill

n. 名词 noun

teachers in educational institution

更多faculties例句

  1. “Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties,” by which he meant the need to find out what happens next.
  2. It would be something of an insult to his amazing mind to suggest he lacks those critical faculties.
  3. What is it about nostalgia that so effectively scrambles our evaluative faculties?
  4. She was still recovering her verbal faculties, but she was able to answer when he asked about a bracelet he saw on her wrist.
  5. To be a fan of a brutal sport like football is to put your moral faculties on hold.
  6. The evening previous to his death he was walking about the farm, in the full possession of all his faculties of mind and body.
  7. HE ordered a lunch which he thought the girl would like, with wine to revive the faculties that he knew must be failing.
  8. The sharpened faculties have something of a lawyer's quickness in detecting a flaw in the indictment.
  9. But the continual drafts had kept ever in advance of the receipts, draining the exchequer—crippling its faculties.
  10. The words were a talisman on the benumbed faculties of Louis; he hastened forward, and threw himself into the carriage.