Literary notes about facilitates (AI summary)
The term "facilitates" is frequently employed to indicate that one element makes a process or condition smoother, faster, or more efficient. In political discourse, it is used to express how conditions or principles can encourage broader outcomes, as seen when moral regularity is increased through more equal circumstances [1] or when uniform trade customs ease business operations [2]. In technical contexts, the word appears to describe mechanisms that enable actions—from the securing of tight joints in construction [3] to improving processes in the human body, such as aiding drainage or digestion [4][5]. It is also found in literary and scientific commentary, where it underscores the importance of supportive conditions in thought, art, and learning, whether by enhancing clarity in prose [6] or by making the advancement of knowledge more accessible [7]. Across these varied uses, "facilitates" consistently conveys the idea of providing a smoother pathway for action or understanding.
- Equality of conditions does not of itself engender regularity of morals, but it unquestionably facilitates and increases it.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville - The establishment of standard trade customs throughout the country facilitates the conduct of business upon an equitable basis.
— from From Paper-mill to Pressroom by William Bond Wheelwright - Therefore, it allows the several parts to expand freely and facilitates the securing of tight joints.
— from Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines by Rodolphe Edgard Mathot - The elevation of the head facilitates drainage from the sinuses.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - It certainly facilitates digestion, and contains all the assimilating principles which form the constituents of the wholesomest vegetable food.
— from The Desert World by Arthur Mangin - There is an indefinable swing even to Greek prose that facilitates study.
— from A Greek Primer: For Beginners in New Testament Greek by Wallace N. (Wallace Nelson) Stearns - Let it be considered how many ideas we owe to the use of speech; how far grammar exercises the understanding and facilitates its operations.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
