Facility vs. Factory

Facilitynoun

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

Facilitynoun

Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.

Facilitynoun

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

Facilitynoun

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

Facilitynoun

A toilet.

Facilitynoun

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

Facilitynoun

(dated) Affability.

Facilitynoun

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

Facilitynoun

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

Facilitynoun

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

Facilitynoun

Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.

Facilitynoun

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

Facilitynoun

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

Facilitynoun

skillful performance or ability without difficulty;

Facilitynoun

a natural effortlessness;

Facilitynoun

services and space and equipment provided for a particular purpose;

Facilitynoun

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

Facilitynoun

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

Facilitynoun

a special feature of a service or machine, which offers the opportunity to do or benefit from something

Facilitynoun

a natural ability to do or learn something well and easily

Facilitynoun

absence of difficulty or effort

Factorynoun

(obsolete) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.

Factorynoun

The position or state of being a factor.

Factorynoun

A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

Factorynoun

A device which produces or manufactures something.

Factorynoun

(programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.

Factoryadjective

Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.

Factorynoun

A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.

Factorynoun

The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory.

Factorynoun

A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory.

Factorynoun

a plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing

Factory

A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial site, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. They are a critical part of modern economic production, with the majority of the world's goods being created or processed within factories.