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FACULTY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
Synonyms:
faculty; mental faculty; module
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("faculty" is a kind of...):
ability; power (possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "faculty"):
attention (the faculty or power of mental concentration)
language; speech (the mental faculty or power of vocal communication)
memory; retention; retentiveness; retentivity (the power of retaining and recalling past experience)
intellect; reason; understanding (the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination)
sensation; sense; sensory faculty; sentience; sentiency (the faculty through which the external world is apprehended)
volition; will (the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The body of teachers and administrators at a school
Example:
the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university
Synonyms:
faculty; staff
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("faculty" is a kind of...):
body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)
Meronyms (members of "faculty"):
prof; professor (someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university)
Holonyms ("faculty" is a member of...):
school (an educational institution)
Context examples:
My two natures had memory in common, but all other faculties were most unequally shared between them.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I began to understand what my friend meant when he said that his brother possessed even keener faculties that he did himself.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In order to face the constant danger of hurt and even of destruction, his predatory and protective faculties were unduly developed.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Non-programmatically Aligned Cancer Center Research Members are Cancer Center faculty and staff not affiliated with any of its research programs.
(Non-programmatically Aligned Cancer Center Research Member Section of Cancer Center Support Grant Application, NCI Thesaurus)
I ardently desired to understand them, and bent every faculty towards that purpose, but found it utterly impossible.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The Gene Therapy and Vector Shared Resource is dedicated to the construction and production of viral and non-viral vectors to Cancer Center faculty members for use in human preclinical and clinical, and animal gene therapy studies, supports protocol development, study strategy development, and gene therapy adverse event risk assessment.
(Gene Therapy and Vector Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
The supermassive black hole in the center of the quasar gobbles up an enormous amount of nearby materials, which glare and shine when they constitute an accretion disk before finally sliding down in the black hole, said Hongyan Zhou, faculty member at the University of Science and Technology of China about the universe’s brightest beacons; shining with magnitudes more luminosity than entire galaxies and the stars they contain.
(Astronomers Study How Quasars Are Powered by Accretion Disks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The faculty of smell.
(Olfaction, NCI Thesaurus)
Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs changed naturally into pity and contempt as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century; and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an interest which never failed.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
He was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
