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faculty

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Faculty (in North American usage) or academics (in British usage) refers to the academic staff of a university: professors of various ranks, lecturers , and/or researchers . The term faculty in this sense is most commonly used in this context in the United ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The scholarly staff at colleges or university, as opposed to the students or support staff. 2 A division of a university (e.g. a Faculty of Science or Faculty of Medicine). 3 An ability, skill, or power, often plural.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE critical ▪ With practice, you will gradually develop your own critical faculties and become more self-critical. ▪ Because they are casually told and even more casually heard, we hear without alerting our more critical ...

Usage examples of faculty.

The faculty, as he told Adams proudly, would be drawn from the great seats of learning in Europe.

Nor was this predecessor Cooper, whom Balzac admired and even imitated, altho Leatherstocking in tracking his redskin enemies revealed the tense observation and the faculty of deduction with which Poe was to endow his Dupin.

He also held a faculty position, and did quite a bit of anesthesiology there.

It has been granted me by much experience in the spiritual world to know that man possesses in himself the faculty of apprehending arcana of wisdom like the angels themselves.

One might even - knowing the importance that the Mercatoria attaches to reconnecting all the many, many systems which have been without Arteria access all these millennia - wonder why the expedition from Zenerre to Ulubis with a new portal was dispatched with such alacrity, given the arguably still greater claims that more populous, more classically strategically important and more at-the-time obviously threatened systems might have had upon the resources and expertise of our esteemed colleagues in the Engineering faculty.

I never told Ooma how the blue-eyed Astorian paid my bill for me, and her perceptive faculties have grown too dull to apprehend a thing she is not told.

He turned then and noticed the open door he obviously had, in his befuddlement, neglected to close, let alone lock, the private idiocies, discomfitures of these last few hours on public exhibit for hallway creeps dragging their fungoid flesh to and from the reeking stall opposite the stairwell, how acute his embarrassment had his faculties been intact, when would this life ever mend?

He is on the faculty of the FBI Academy in the Behavioral Science Unit, and also holds adjunct faculty status with the University of Virginia and Michigan State University, and is a senior research fellow with the University of Pennsylvania.

I perceived that though men rarely become mad, still such an event is well within the bounds of possibility, for our reasoning faculties are like powder, which, though it catches fire easily, will never catch fire at all without a spark.

Constance Calenda, the daughter of Salvator Calenda, who had been dean of the faculty of medicine at Salerno about 1415, and afterwards dean of the faculty at Naples.

Here are manufactured all the various medicinal preparations and compounds prescribed by the Faculty, in the treatment of special cases.

The fact that Dupree was not in full command of his mental faculties is an astonishing confession from a man whose reputation was built upon a computerlike mind.

Another develops a special faculty for unraveling knotty questions in matters of real estate, and, if a title is to be proved, or a deed annulled, he is the preferred counselor.

I now knew Durmond was no longer on the faculty of Drakestone College.

An avenue of ehretia trees connected it to the central cluster of faculty buildings, their long dark green leaves casting a dense shade over the path underneath.