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facilitate

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "make easy, render less difficult," from French faciliter "to render easy," from stem of Latin facilis "easy" (see facile ). Related: Facilitated ; facilitates ; facilitating .\n

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES facilitate communication (= make it easier ) ▪ Computers have facilitated global communication. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB also ▪ It would also facilitate the devolution of power to the regions. ▪ E-commerce also ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. make easier; "you could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge" [syn: ease , alleviate ] be of use; "This will help to prevent accidents" [syn: help ] physiology: increase the likelihood of (a response); "The stimulus facilitates a delayed ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Facilitate \Fa*cil"i*tate\ (f[.a]*s[i^]l"[i^]*t[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Facilitated (f[.a]*s[i^]l"[i^]*t[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Facilitating (f[.a]*s[i^]l"[i^]*t[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [Cf. F. faciliter. See Facility .] To make easy or less difficult; ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To make easy or easier. 2 To help bring about 3 To preside over (a meeting, a seminar)

Usage examples of facilitate.

Grotius, a man of genius and learning, who preserved his moderation amidst the fury of contending sects, and who composed the annals of his own age and country, at a time when the invention of printing had facilitated the means of intelligence, and increased the danger of detection.

Any kind of movement in relation to light will obviously be much facilitated by each part circumnutating or bending successively in all directions, so that an already existing movement has only to be increased in some one direction, and to be lessened or stopped in the other directions, in order that it should become heliotropic, apheliotropic, etc.

But I am pleased to report that we seem to have rooted out every Captain Audion agent who was planted in the various broadcast and cable stations to facilitate the entire scheme.

Further, I am convinced that on the issue of authorial intervention deconstruction facilitates reader participation in the construction of meaning.

At your late session a joint resolution was adopted authorizing the President to take measures for facilitating a proper representation of the industrial interests of the United States at the exhibition of the industry of all nations to be holden at London in the year 1862.

Ulrich Middledorf, director of Der Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, facilitated our work in his library, as did the directors of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome.

At a little distance, was discovered a rude and dangerous passage, formed by an enormous pine, which, thrown across the chasm, united the opposite precipices, and which had been felled probably by the hunter, to facilitate his chace of the izard, or the wolf.

In the combi and cargo configurations, the nose can be fitted as a door to facilitate the loading of long and bulky articles.

This consultation, which I have still in my possession, says that our blood is an elastic fluid which is liable to diminish or to increase in thickness, but never in quantity, and that my haemorrhage could only proceed from the thickness of the mass of my blood, which relieved itself in a natural way in order to facilitate circulation.

That of cryptology is simple, but even so a familiarity with its terms facilitates understanding.

Anyone with eyes would eventually learn that Minid males pressed their suits from behind and that, in order to facilitate disengagement should a dinothere come dithering along or a porcupine prickling past, partners often remained upright.

They facilitate the action of the secretory glands, tone them up, and give a new impulse to their operations, so that they can more expeditiously rid the system of worn-out and effete materials.

For Wynne-Edwards, epideictic behaviour is deliberate massing in crowds to facilitate population estimation.

Nevertheless, it was the same tribunal that had facilitated my access to the ambassador to Madrid--Mocenigo.

Obviously it has since been closed, but perhaps the hair was removed to facilitate the opening.