liberalization liberalisation relaxation | the act of making less strict |
facility | a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you, a cell phone with internet facility |
facility | something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service, catering facilities, toilet facilities, educational facilities |
relaxation relaxation method | a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount |
rest ease repose relaxation | freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility), took his repose by the swimming pool |
adjoining room | a hotel room that shares a wall with another hotel room |
athletic facility | a facility for athletic events |
back room | a room located in the rear of an establishment, usually accessible only to privileged groups |
bedroom sleeping room sleeping accommodation chamber bedchamber | a room used primarily for sleeping |
bedsitting room bedsitter bedsit | a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing) |
billiard room billiard saloon billiard parlor billiard parlour billiard hall | a room in which billiards is played |
cafeteria facility | (usually plural) facilities for providing food for employees or visitors |
child's room | a bedroom for a child |
clean room white room | a room that is virtually free of dust or bacteria, used in laboratory work and in assembly or repair of precision equipment |
common room | a sitting room (usually at school or university) |
conference room | a room in which a conference can be held |
connecting room | a hotel room that shares a wall with an adjoining room and is connected by a private door |
control room | a room housing control equipment (as in a recording studio) |
cutting room | a room where films or tapes are edited (by cutting out unwanted parts) |
dining room diningoom | a room used for dining |
dock dockage docking facility | landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired, may have gates to let water in or out, the ship arrived at the dock more than a day late |
doorway door room access threshold | the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building, the space that a door can close, he stuck his head in the doorway |
dormitory dormitory room dorm room | a large sleeping room containing several beds |
drawing room withdrawing room | a formal room where visitors can be received and entertained |
drawing room | a private compartment on a sleeping car with three bunks and a toilet |
dressing room | a room in which you can change clothes |
emergency room ER | a room in a hospital or clinic staffed and equipped to provide emergency care to persons requiring immediate medical treatment |
engineering engine room | a room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located |
facility installation | a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry, the assembly plant is an enormous facility |
family room | a recreation room in a private house |
furnace room | a room (usually in the basement of a building) that contains a furnace for heating the building |
gun room | military quarters of midshipmen and junior officers on a British warship |
home room homeroom | a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business |
hospital room | a room in a hospital for the care of patients |
hotel room | a bedroom (usually with bath) in a hotel |
ladies' room powder room | a woman's restroom in a public (or semipublic) building |
laminar flow clean room | a clean room free of all extraneous particles, used in fabricating microprocessors |
lecture room | classroom where lectures are given |
living room livingoom sitting room front room parlor parlour | a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax |
locker room | a room (as at an athletic facility or workplace) where you can change clothes and which contains lockers for the temporary storage of your clothing and personal possessions |
lounge waiting room waiting area | a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait |
lumber room | a storeroom in a house where odds and ends can be stored (especially furniture) |
medical building health facility healthcare facility | building where medicine is practiced |
men's room men's | a public toilet for men |
morgue mortuary dead room | a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation |
morning room | a sitting room used during the daylight hours |
motel room | a sleeping room in a motel |
nursery baby's room | a child's room for a baby |
operating room OR operating theater operating theatre surgery | a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations, great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic |
penal institution penal facility | an institution where persons are confined for punishment and to protect the public |