facility

instalaciones, servicios

Equipos, espacios o servicios disponibles para que las personas puedan realizar determinadas actividades.

En inglés sencillo: Equipment, rooms, or services provided so people can do particular activities.

• The hotel has excellent cooking facilities.
• Parking facilities are available nearby.
• Our school needs better sports facilities.

Sinónimos: amenities

Expresiones frecuentes: sports facility, parking facility, cooking facility

instalación, centro

Edificio o lugar destinado a una actividad concreta, como atender pacientes o fabricar productos.

En inglés sencillo: A building or place used for a particular activity, such as medical care or making products.

• They built a new medical facility.
• The research facility employs two hundred people.
• Several production facilities closed last year.

Sinónimos: center, establishment

Expresiones frecuentes: medical facility, research facility, production facility

aseos, baños

Manera cortés de referirse al baño; en inglés suele usarse en plural.

En inglés sencillo: A toilet or bathroom, usually referred to politely in the plural.

• Where are the facilities?
• You may use the facilities downstairs.
• The restaurant’s facilities were clean.

Sinónimos: toilets, restrooms

Expresiones frecuentes: use the facilities, toilet facility

facilidad, aptitud

Capacidad para hacer o aprender algo con facilidad y hacerlo bien.

En inglés sencillo: An ability to do or learn something easily and well.

• She has a facility for languages.
• His facility with numbers impressed us.
• The young musician played with remarkable facility.

Cómo se usa: facility for something/doing something (She has a facility for learning languages.); facility with something (He showed great facility with numbers.)

Sinónimos: aptitude, skill, talent

Expresiones frecuentes: facility for languages, natural facility, remarkable facility, facility of expression