Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 2
Compare: Operand
Operand (n.) (Math.) The symbol, quantity, or thing upon which a mathematical operation is performed; -- called also faciend.
Faciend (n.) (Mach.) The multiplicand. See Facient, 2.
Facient (n.) One who does anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hacket.
Facient (n.) (Mach.) One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.
Facient (n.) (Mach) The multiplier.
Note: The terms facient, faciend, and factum, may imply that the multiplication involved is not ordinary multiplication, but is either some specified operation, or, in general, any mathematical operation. See Multiplication.
Facies (n.) The anterior part of the head; the face.
Facies (n.) (Biol.) The general aspect or habit of a species, or group of species, esp. with reference to its adaptation to its environment.
Facies (n.) (Zool.) The face of a bird, or the front of the head, excluding the bill.
Facies Hippocratica. (Med.) See Hippocratic.
Facile (a.) Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.
Order . . . will render the work facile and delightful. -- Evelyn.
Facile (a.) Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered.
The facile gates of hell too slightly barred. -- Milton.
Facile (a.) Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.
I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet. -- B. Jonson.
Facile (a.) Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible.
Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost Paradise, deceived by me. -- Milton.
This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a keeper on the king's highway. -- Prof. Wilson.
Facile (a.) Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen. -- Fac"ile*ly, adv. -- Fac"ile*ness, n.
Facile (a.) Arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem".
Facile (a.) Performing adroitly and without effort; "a facile hand".
Facile (a.) Expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" [syn: eloquent, facile, fluent, silver, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken].
Facile, () A concurrent extension of ML from ECRC.
["Facile: A Symmetric Integration of Concurrent and Functional Programming", A. Giacalone et al, Intl J Parallel Prog 18(2):121-160, Apr 1989]. (1994-12-01)
Facilitated (imp. & p. p.) of Facilitate.
Facilitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Facilitate.
Facilitate (v. t.) 使容易；促進；幫助 To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task.
To invite and facilitate that line of proceeding which the times call for. -- I. Taylor.
Facilitated (a.) Freed from difficulty or impediment. Contrasted with delayed.
Syn: expedited.
Facilitate (v.) Make easier; "you could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge" [syn: facilitate, ease, alleviate].
Facilitate (v.) Be of use; "This will help to prevent accidents" [syn: help, facilitate].
Facilitate (v.) Increase the likelihood of (a response); "The stimulus facilitates a delayed impulse".
Facilitate (v.) To make (something) easier : to help cause (something).
Facilitate (v.) To help (something) run more smoothly and effectively.
Facilitate (v. t.) To make easier : help bring about <facilitate growth>.
Facilitate (v.) [ T ] (Formal) (C1) 促進；促使；使便利 To make something possible or easier.
// The new ramp will facilitate the entry of wheelchairs.
// The current structure does not facilitate efficient work flow.
Facilitation (n.) The act of facilitating or making easy.
Facilitation (n.) The condition of being made easy (or easier); "social facilitation is an adaptive condition".
Facilitation (n.) (Neurophysiology) Phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron combine to trigger an action potential.
Facilitation (n.) Act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something.
Facilitative (a.) Of Facilitate. Freeing from difficulty or impediment.
Facilitative (a.) Freeing from difficulty or impediment; as, facilitative changes in the economic structure.
Facilitative (a.) Freeing from difficulty or impediment; "facilitative changes in the economic structure."
Facilities (n. pl.) of Facility.
Facility (n.) The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.
The facility with which government has been overturned in France. -- Burke.
Facility (n.) Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.
Facility (n.) Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy.
It is a great error to take facility for good nature. -- L'Estrange.
Facility (n.) Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.
Offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility. -- South.
Facility (n.) That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; -- usually in the plural; as, special facilities for study.
Syn: Ease; expertness; readiness; dexterity; complaisance; condescension; affability.
Usage: Facility, Expertness, Readiness. These words have in common the idea of performing any act with ease and promptitude. Facility supposes a natural or acquired power of dispatching a task with lightness and ease. Expertness is the kind of facility acquired by long practice. Readiness marks the promptitude with which anything is done. A merchant needs great facility in dispatching business; a banker, great expertness in casting accounts; both need great readiness in passing from one employment to another. "The facility which we get of doing things by a custom of doing, makes them often pass in us without our notice." -- Locke. "The army was celebrated for the expertness and valor of the soldiers." "A readiness to obey the known will of God is the surest means to enlighten the mind in respect to duty".
Facility (n.) A building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry; "the assembly plant is an enormous facility" [syn: facility, installation].
Facility (n.) Skillful performance or ability without difficulty; "his quick adeptness was a product of good design"; "he was famous for his facility as an archer" [syn: adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility, quickness].
Facility (n.) A natural effortlessness; "they conversed with great facility"; "a happy readiness of conversation"-- Jane Austen [syn: facility, readiness].
Facility (n.) Something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service; "catering facilities"; "toilet facilities"; "educational facilities.q"
Facility (n.) A service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you; "a cell phone with internet facility".
Facility (n.) (Building) (B1) [ C ] （尤指包含多個建築物，有特定用途的）場所 A place, especially including buildings, where a particular activity happens.
// A nuclear research facility.
// A military facility.
// A new sports facility.
Facilities (B1) (n. pl.) 設施；設備 The buildings, equipment, and services provided for a particular purpose.
// Shopping facilities.
// Medical facilities.
// Sports facilities.
Facility (n.) (Ability) (B2) [ C or U ] 天資，才能；特色 An ability to do something easily or well.
// His facility for languages is astonishing.
Facing (n.) A covering in front, for ornament or other purpose; an exterior covering or sheathing; as, the facing of an earthen slope, sea wall, etc. , to strengthen it or to protect or adorn the exposed surface.
Facing (n.) A lining placed near the edge of a garment for ornament or protection.
Facing (n.) (Arch.) The finishing of any face of a wall with material different from that of which it is chiefly composed, or the coating or material so used.
Facing (n.) (Founding) A powdered substance, as charcoal, bituminous coal, ect., applied to the face of a mold, or mixed with the sand that forms it, to give a fine smooth surface to the casting.
Facing (n.) (Mil.) pl. The collar and cuffs of a military coat; -- commonly of a color different from that of the coat.
Facing (n.) (Mil.) The movement of soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or about; -- chiefly in the pl.
Facing brick, Front or pressed brick.
Facing (n.) A lining applied to the edge of a garment for ornamentation or strengthening.
Facing (n.) An ornamental coating to a building [syn: facing, veneer].
Facing (n.) A protective covering that protects the outside of a building [syn: facing, cladding].
Facing (n.) Providing something with a surface of a different material [syn: lining, facing].
Facingly (adv.) In a facing manner or position.
Facinorous (a.) Atrociously wicked.
Facound (n.) Speech; eloquence.
Facsimile (v. t.) 傳真，臨摹 To make a facsimile of.
Facsimiles (n. pl. ) of Facsimile.
Facsimile (n.) 復寫，傳真 A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness.
Facsimile telegraph, A telegraphic apparatus reproducing messages in autograph.
Facsimile (n.) . 摹寫；（真）本；【電信】傳真 An exact copy or reproduction [syn: facsimile, autotype].
Facsimile (n.) Duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio [syn: facsimile, facsimile machine, fax].
Facsimile (v.) 摹寫；與……一模一樣 Send something via a facsimile machine; "Can you fax me the report right away?" [syn: fax, telefax, facsimile].
Fact (n.) 事實 [C] [+（that）]；實際，實情，真相 [U]；【律】（犯罪）事實，罪行 [the S] A doing, making, or preparing. [Obs.]
A project for the fact and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies. -- B. Jonson.
Fact (n.) An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance.
What might instigate him to this devilish fact, I am not able to conjecture. -- Evelyn.
He who most excels in fact of arms. -- Milton.
Fact (n.) Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.
Fact (n.) The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts.
I do not grant the fact. -- De Foe.
This reasoning is founded upon a fact which is not true. -- Roger Long.
Note: The term fact has in jurisprudence peculiar uses in contrast with law; as, attorney at law, and attorney in fact; issue in law, and issue in fact. There is also a grand distinction between law and fact with reference to the province of the judge and that of the jury, the latter generally determining the fact, the former the law. -- Burrill -- Bouvier.
{Accessary before the fact}, or {Accessary after the fact}. See under {Accessary}.
{Matter of fact}, An actual occurrence; a verity; used adjectively: of or pertaining to facts; prosaic; unimaginative; as, a matter-of-fact narration.
Syn: Act; deed; performance; event; incident; occurrence; circumstance.
Fact (n.) A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; "first you must collect all the facts of the case".
Fact (n.) A statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened; "he supported his argument with an impressive array of facts".
Fact (n.) An event known to have happened or something known to have existed; "your fears have no basis in fact"; "how much of the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell".
Fact (n.) A concept whose truth can be proved; "scientific hypotheses are not facts".
Faction (n.) (Anc. Hist.) （政黨，組織等內部的）派別，宗派；小集團 [C]；派系之爭，內訌 [U]；紀實小說；真人真事的小說（fact + fiction） One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus.
Faction (n.) A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good.
Faction (n.) Tumult; discord; dissension.
They remained at Newbury in great faction among themselves. -- Clarendon.
Syn: Combination; clique; junto. See {Cabal}.
Faction (n.) A usually contentious or self-seeking group within a larger group, party, government, etc.
Faction (n.) Party strife and intrigue; internal dissension. Faction comes from Latin factio, faction-, from the past participle of facere, "to do, to make".
Factionary (a.) Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides.
Factioner (n.) One of a faction.
Factionist (n.) One who promotes faction.
Factious (a.) Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons.
Factious (a.) Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction; indicating, or characterized by, faction; -- said of acts or expressions; as, factious quarrels.
Factitious (a.) 人工的；不自然的；虛假的 Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste. -- Fac-ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fac*ti"tious*ness, n.
He acquires a factitious propensity, he forms an incorrigible habit, of desultory reading. -- De Quincey.
Syn: Unnatural.
Usage: Factitious, Unnatural. Anything is unnatural when it departs in any way from its simple or normal state; it is factitious when it is wrought out or wrought up by labor and effort, as, a factitious excitement. An unnatural demand for any article of merchandise is one which exceeds the ordinary rate of consumption; a factitious demand is one created by active exertions for the purpose. An unnatural alarm is one greater than the occasion requires; a factitious alarm is one wrought up with care and effort.
Factitious (a.) Not produced by natural forces; "brokers created a factitious demand for stocks".
Factitive (a.) Causing; causative.
Factitive (a.) (Gram.) Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as when we say, He made the water wine.
Sometimes the idea of activity in a verb or adjective involves in it a reference to an effect, in the way of causality, in the active voice on the immediate objects, and in the passive voice on the subject of such activity. This second object is called the factitive object. -- J. W. Gibbs.
Factive (a.) Making; having power to make.
Facto (adv.) In fact; by the act or fact.
Factoid (n.) （僅因出現在出版物上而被信以為真的）仿真陳述 An invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print.
Factoid (n.) A briefly stated and usually trivial fact.
Factoid (n.) [ C ] (Humorous) 有趣消息；趣聞 An interesting piece of information.
Factor (n.) One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker.
Factor (n.) A steward or bailiff of an estate.
Factor (n.) One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, from a product.
Factor (n.) One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent.
Factored (imp. & p. p.) of Factor.
Factoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Factor.
Factor (v. t.) To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.
Factorage (n.) The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission.
Factoress (n.) A factor who is a woman.
Factorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a factory. -- Buchanan.
Factorial (a.) (Math.) Related to factorials.
Factorial (n.) (Math.) pl. A name given to the factors of a continued product when the former are derivable from one and the same function F(x) by successively imparting a constant increment or decrement h to the independent variable. Thus the product F(x).F(x + h).F(x + 2h) . . . F[x + (n-1)h] is called a factorial term, and its several factors take the name of factorials. -- Brande & C.
Factorial (n.) (Math.) The product of the consecutive numbers from unity up to any given number; thus, 5 factorial is the product of 5 times four times three times two times one, or 120.
Factorial (a.) Of or relating to factorials.
Factorial (n.) The product of all the integers up to and including a given integer; "1, 2, 6, 24, and 120 are factorials".
Factorial, () The mathematical function that takes a natural number, N, and returns the product of N and all smaller positive integers. This is written
N! = N * (N-1) * (N-2) * ... * 1.
The factorial of zero is one because it is an empty product.
Factorial can be defined recursively as
0! = 1
N! = N * (N-1)! , N > 0
The gamma function is the equivalent for real numbers.
For example, the number of ways of shuffling 52 playing cards is 52! or nearly 10^68. 52 Factorial
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Factoring (n.) The act of resolving into factors.
Factorized (imp. & p. p.) of Factorize.
Factorizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Factorize.
Factorize (v. t.) (Law) To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff.
Factorize (v. t.) (Law) To attach (the effects of a debtor) in the hands of a third person ; to garnish. See Garnish. [Vt. & Conn.]
Factorize (v. t.) (Math.) to resolve (a complex expression, such as a polynomial) into factors.
Syn: factorise.
Factorize (v.) Resolve (a polynomial) into factors [syn: factorize, factorise].
Factorship (n.) The business of a factor.
Factories (n. pl. ) of Factory.
Factory (n.) A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. "The
Company's factory at Madras." -- Burke.
Factory (n.) The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory. -- W. Guthrie.
Factory (n.) A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory.
Factory leg (Med.), A variety of bandy leg, associated with partial dislocation of the tibia, produced in young children by working in factories.
Factory (n.) A plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing [syn: factory, mill, manufacturing plant, manufactory].
Factory, () Scotch law. A contract which partakes of a mandate and locatio ad operandum, and which is in the English and American law books discussed under the title of Principal and Agent. 1 Bell's Com. 259.
Factotums (n. pl. ) of Factotum.
Factotum (n.) A person employed to do all kinds of work or business ; a person with many different responsibilities. -- B. Jonson.
Factotum (n.) A servant employed to do a variety of jobs.
Factual (a.) （根據）事實的；真實的 Relating to, or containing, facts.
Factual (a.) Of or pertaining to facts; as, factual inaccuracies. [R.]
Factual (a.) Containing only facts (as contrasted with opinions or speculations); as, a factual report.
Factual (a.) Existing in act or fact; "rocks and trees...the actual world"; "actual heroism"; "the actual things that produced the emotion you experienced" [syn: {actual}, {factual}].
Factual (a.) Of or relating to or characterized by facts; "factual considerations".
Facta (n. pl. ) of Factum.
Factum (n.) (Law) A man's own act and deed ; particularly:
Factum (n.) (Civil Law) Anything stated and made certain.
Factum (n.) (Testamentary Law) The due execution of a will, including everything necessary to its validity.
Factum (n.) (Mach.) The product. See Facient, 2.
Factum () A deed. a man's own act and deed.
Factum () When a man denies by his plea that he made a deed on which he is sued, be pleads non est factum. (q.v.) Vide Deed; Fait.
Facture (n.) The act or manner of making or doing anything; -- now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production. -- Bacon.
Facture (n.) (Com.) An invoice or bill of parcels.
Faculae (n. pl.) (Astron.) Groups of small shining spots on the surface of the sun which are brighter than the other parts of the photosphere. They are generally seen in the neighborhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere. -- Newcomb.
Facular (a.) (Astron.) Of or pertaining to the faculae. -- R. A. Proctor.
Facultative (a.) Having relation to the grant or exercise faculty, or authority, privilege, license, or the like hence, optional; as, facultative enactments, or those which convey a faculty, or permission; the facultative referendum of Switzerland is one that is optional with the people and is necessary only when demanded by petition; facultative studies; -- opposed to obligatory and compulsory, and sometimes used with to.
Facultative (a.) Of such a character as to admit of existing under various forms or conditions, or of happening or not happening, or the like; specif.: (Biol.) Having the power to live under different conditions; as, a facultative parasite, a plant which is normally saprophytic, but which may exist wholly or in part as a parasite; -- opposed to obligate.
Facultative (a.) (Physiol.) Pertaining to a faculty or faculties.
In short, there is no facultative plurality in the mind; it is a single organ of true judgment for all purposes, cognitive or practical. -- J. Martineau.
Faculties (n. pl. ) of Faculty.
Faculty (n.) Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul.
But know that in the soul Are many lesser faculties that serve Reason as chief. -- Milton.
What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty ! -- Shak.
Faculty (n.) Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament. -- Hawthorne.
Faculty (n.) Power; prerogative or attribute of office. [R.]
This Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek. -- Shak.
Faculty (n.) Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.
The pope . . . granted him a faculty to set him free from his promise. -- Fuller.
It had not only faculty to inspect all bishops' dioceses, but to change what laws and statutes they should think fit to alter among the colleges. -- Evelyn.
Faculty (n.) A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect.
Faculty (n.) (Amer. Colleges) The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college.
Dean of faculty. See under Dean.
Faculty of advocates. (Scot.) See under Advocate.
Syn: Talent; gift; endowment; dexterity; expertness; cleverness; readiness; ability; knack.
Faculty (n.) One of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind [syn: faculty, mental faculty, module].
Faculty (n.) The body of teachers and administrators at a school; "the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the
university" [syn: staff, faculty].
Faculty, () canon law. A license; an authority. For example, the ordinary having the disposal of all seats in the nave of a church, may grant this power, which, when it is delegated, is called a faculty, to another.
Faculty, () Faculties are of two kinds; first, when the grant is to a man and his heirs in gross; second, when it is to a person and his heirs, as appurtenant to a house which he holds in the parish. 1 T. R. 429, 432; 12 Co. R. 106.
Faculty, () Scotch law. Equivalent to ability or power. The term faculty is more properly applied to a power founded on the consent of the party from whom it springs, and not founded on property. Kames on Eq. 504.
Faculty (n.) (Ability) (C1) [ C usually plural ] 官能，機能 A natural ability to hear, see, think, move, etc.
// Even at the age of 100, she still had all her faculties.
// Is he in command/ possession of all his faculties (= can he still hear, speak, see, and think clearly)?
Faculty (n.) (Ability) [ C ] 能力，才能 A special ability to do a particular thing.
// She has a faculty for inspiring confidence in people.
// Studying has certainly sharpened my critical faculties (= taught me to think carefully about things using my judgment).
Faculty (n.) (In a college) (C1) [ C ] （高等院校的）系，院 A group of departments in a college that specialize in a particular subject or group of subjects.
// The Psychology/ Law Faculty.
// UK the Faculty of Science.
Faculty (n.) (In a college) (B2) [ C or S ] (US) （高等院校中院系的）全體教師The people who teach in a department in a college.
// He has been a faculty memberat the college for 20 years.
Facund (a.) Eloquent. [Archaic]
Facundious (a.) Eloquement; full of words. [Archaic]
Facundity (n.) Eloquence; readiness of speech. [Archaic]
Fad (n.) A hobby ; freak; whim.
It is your favorite fad to draw plans. -- G. Eliot.
Fad (n.) A practise followed enthusiastically by a number of people for a limited period of time; as, the latest fad in fashion.
Syn: craze; mania. -- Fad"dist, n. -- Fad"dish, a.
Fad (n.) An interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season" [syn: fad, craze, furor, furore, cult, rage].
Faddle (v. i.) To trifle; to toy.
Faddle (v. t. ) To fondle; to dandle. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Fade (a.) Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace. [R.] "Passages that are somewhat fade." -- Jeffrey.
His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous. -- De Quincey.