facilities
facilities — noun
1. the rooms, equipment, and services that a place provides so that people can do c
the rooms, equipment, and services that a place provides so that people can do certain things there, such as playing sport, getting medical care, or staying overnight.
The new community centre has excellent facilities for swimming, basketball, and yoga.
facilities for + gerund list
Lara chose the hotel because the facilities included a gym and a heated pool.
facilities included + concrete list
Many small villages still lack basic medical facilities such as clinics and pharmacies.
The factory invested two million dollars in new training facilities for its workers.
Tariro complained that the campsite had no cooking facilities at all.
- amenities
stresses comfort and pleasure (pool, spa) rather than function
- equipment
only the movable items, not the rooms or buildings
- infrastructure
larger-scale systems like roads or power, not a single venue
文法句型
facilities for + noun/gerund
sports/medical/cooking facilities
用法筆記
Almost always plural in this sense; the singular 'facility' picks out one specific building or service (e.g. 'a research facility'), while 'facilities' covers the whole set.
常見錯誤
2. a natural ability to do something well and easily, especially something that usu
a natural ability to do something well and easily, especially something that usually takes other people a lot of effort, such as learning languages, playing music, or solving problems.
Emre has a remarkable facility for picking up new languages within weeks.
facility for + gerund
The young pianist played the difficult passage with surprising facility.
with + adj + facility (manner)
Her facility with numbers made her the obvious choice for the finance role.
Maeve solved the puzzle with such facility that the teacher gave her a harder one.
- difficulty
lack of ease, not inability
文法句型
facility for/with + noun
with great facility
用法筆記
In this sense the word is uncountable and almost always appears as the singular 'facility', not 'facilities' — it is included here only because the source pages list it under the same headword. Distinguish from sense 1 by the pattern: 'a facility for/with [skill area]' vs 'facilities for [activity at a place]'.