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English to English noun
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one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind |  | source: wordnet30
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the body of teachers and administrators at a school | | Example: the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university
source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913
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