Departmentnoun
A part, portion, or subdivision.
Facultynoun
The academic staff at schools, colleges or universities, as opposed to the students or support staff.
Departmentnoun
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
‘Technical things are not his department; he's a people person.’;
Facultynoun
A division of a university.
‘She transferred from the Faculty of Science to the Faculty of Medicine.’;
Departmentnoun
A subdivision of an organization.
Facultynoun
An ability, skill, or power, often plural.
‘He lived until he reached the age of 90 with most of his faculties intact.’;
Departmentnoun
One of the principal divisions of executive government
‘the Treasury Department; the Department of Agriculture; police department’;
Facultynoun
A power, authority or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
Departmentnoun
One of the divisions of instructions
‘the physics department; the gender studies department’;
Facultynoun
(Church of England) A licence to make alterations to a church.
Departmentnoun
A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes. In France, a department is smaller than a region
Facultynoun
The members of a profession.
Departmentnoun
(historical) A military subdivision of a country
‘the Department of the Potomac’;
Facultynoun
Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul.
‘But know that in the soulAre many lesser faculties that serveReason as chief.’; ‘What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty !’;
Departmentnoun
(obsolete) Act of departing; departure.
Facultynoun
Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
‘He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament.’;
Departmentnoun
Act of departing; departure.
‘Sudden departments from one extreme to another.’;
Facultynoun
Power; prerogative or attribute of office.
‘This DuncanHath borne his faculties so meek.’;
Departmentnoun
A part, portion, or subdivision.
Facultynoun
Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.
‘The pope . . . granted him a faculty to set him free from his promise.’; ‘It had not only faculty to inspect all bishops' dioceses, but to change what laws and statutes they should think fit to alter among the colleges.’;
Departmentnoun
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
‘Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature.’;
Facultynoun
A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, etc.
Departmentnoun
Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics.
Facultynoun
The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college.
Departmentnoun
A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.
Facultynoun
one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
Departmentnoun
A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
Facultynoun
the body of teachers and administrators at a school;
‘the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university’;
Departmentnoun
a specialized division of a large organization;
‘you'll find it in the hardware department’; ‘she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury’;
Facultynoun
an inherent mental or physical power
‘her critical faculties’; ‘the faculty of sight’;
Departmentnoun
the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)
Facultynoun
an aptitude for doing something
‘his faculty for taking the initiative’;
Departmentnoun
a specialized sphere of knowledge;
‘baking is not my department’; ‘his work established a new department of literature’;
Facultynoun
a group of university departments concerned with a major division of knowledge
‘the Faculty of Arts’; ‘the law faculty’;
Departmentnoun
a division of a large organization such as a government, university, or business, dealing with a specific area of activity
‘the council's finance department’;
Facultynoun
the teaching or research staff of a group of university departments viewed as a body
‘there were then no tenured women on the faculty’;
Departmentnoun
an administrative district in France and other countries
‘the turnout was particularly low in rural departments’;
Facultynoun
the members of a particular profession, especially medicine, considered collectively.
Departmentnoun
an area of special expertise or responsibility
‘that's not my department’;
Facultynoun
a licence or authorization from a Church authority
‘the vicar introduced certain ornaments without the necessary faculty to do so’;
Departmentnoun
a specified aspect or quality
‘he was a bit lacking in the height department’;
