Accommodation vs. Facility — What's the Difference?

A room, group of rooms, or building in which someone may live or stay

A place, amenity, or piece of equipment provided for a particular purpose

A convenient arrangement; a settlement or compromise

A natural ability to do or learn something well and easily

The process of adapting or adjusting to someone or something

Ease in moving, acting, or doing

The act of accommodating or the state of being accommodated; adjustment.

An ability or talent; an aptitude

Something that meets a need; a convenience.

A building, room, array of equipment, or a number of such things, designed to serve a particular function

Room and board; lodgings.

Something that facilitates an action or process

A seat, compartment, or room on a public vehicle.

Facilities(Informal) A restroom or public toilet.

Reconciliation or settlement of opposing views.

The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity.

(Physiology) The automatic adjustment in the focal length of the lens of the eye to permit retinal focus of images of objects at varying distances.

Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.

A financial favor, such as a loan.

The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.

Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.

An institution specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.

(physical) Adaptation or adjustment.

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The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.

A toilet.

A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.

A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.

The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.

(dated) Affability.

The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.

The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.

(personal) Adaptation or adjustment.

Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.

Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; - usually in a bad sense; pliancy.

Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.

Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.

(countable) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; - usually in the plural; as, special facilities for study.

A loan of money.

A building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry;

An accommodation bill or note.

Skillful performance or ability without difficulty;

An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.

A natural effortlessness;

(theology) An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness.

Services and space and equipment provided for a particular purpose;

The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.

A service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you;

Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; - followed by to.

Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; - often in the plural; as, the accommodations - that is, lodgings and food - at an inn.

An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.

The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

A loan of money.

Making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances

A settlement of differences;

In the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality

Living quarters provided for public convenience;

The act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need

(physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the lens of the eye