2020-09-19
คำชวนสับสน ชุด F - faculty
การใช้ภาษาอังกฤษ ที่ถือว่า ถูกต้อง ในที่นี้ เป็นไป ตามมาตรฐาน ของภาษา
การใช้ภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่กำหนดมาตฐาน ถือตามส่วนใหญ่ที่ใช้แต่ละท้องถิ่น
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง “FACULTY” = ‘FAK-uhl-tee’
Abused, Confused, & Misused Words
faculty
a natural ability for a particular kind of action:
a faculty for choosing the right friends
Not to be confused with:
ability – a general word for power, native or acquired,
enabling one to do things well: an ability for math
capacity – actual or potential ability to perform or withstand:
a capacity for hard work
talent – native ability or aptitude in a special field:
a talent for art or music
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Choose the Right Synonym for faculty
GIFT, FACULTY, APTITUDE, BENT, TALENT, GENIUS, KNACK
mean a special ability for doing something.
GIFT often implies special favor by God or nature. the gift of singing beautifully
FACULTY applies to an innate or less often acquired ability for a particular accomplishment or function. a faculty for remembering names
APTITUDE implies a natural liking for some activity and the likelihood of success in it. a mechanical aptitude
BENT is nearly equal to APTITUDE but it stresses inclination perhaps more than specific ability. a family with an artistic bent
TALENT suggests a marked natural ability that needs to be developed. has enough talent to succeed
GENIUS suggests impressive inborn creative ability. has no great genius for poetry
KNACK implies a comparatively minor but special ability making for ease and dexterity in performance. the knack of getting along
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Usage Notes
‘Faculty’ and ‘Facility’: A School of Thought
The nouns faculty and facility differ by only a couple of letters,
and are similar in other respects as well.
Each has a number of senses, and each ultimately derives from the same word, the Latin facilis (“easy”).
Faculty might make us think ofthe body of educators that work in a school, and facility might make us think of a place or feature within the school that makes something possible to do
—such as a learning facility or athletic facility, or a restroom, as it refers to when used in its polite-sounding plural form (“asked to use the facilities”).
But both words also have senses pertaining to the ability to do something.
Faculty is defined as “ability or power” with specific senses denoting innate or acquired ability, an inherent capability or function, or a natural aptitude.
You can speak of one’s faculty of sight or hearing, for example.
When speaking of an ability or aptitude, faculty suggests a basic competence:
Facility stresses the ability to do something with an ease or comfort that others might not possess.
You may have a facility for adding numbers quickly, for example. Here are some other examples:
But there are times when faculty is used for such an instance, particularly when the ability seems natural:
It is worth noting that one can have a faculty and a facility for doing the same thing.
Having a faculty for speech means you can communicate by enunciating words and stringing them together.
But having a facility for speech suggests that you can speak with a particular eloquence, the kind that might hold an audience’s attention.
Because facility and faculty are similar in appearance and comparable in meaning, writers have occasionally played the two off each other:
Dr. Watson’s line demonstrates the distinction between facility and faculty with near perfection.
The ability to observe is one that most people naturally possess,
but Sherlock Holmes’ powers of deduction are not shared by most people—evidenced by Watson describing them as “peculiar.”
