n.
ability to hold
1) to ~ (filled to ~)
2) lung; seating; storage ~
3) a ~ of (a ~ of twenty gallons)
ability
4) intellectual, mental ~
5) one's earning ~
6) a ~ for (a ~ for making friends)
7) the ~ to + inf. (she has the ~ to go all the way to the top)
ability to produce
8) plant; productive ~ (our country's productive ~)
9) full, peak ~
10) at ~ (to operate at peak ~)
function
11) an administrative; advisory; official; professional; unofficial ~
12) in a ~ (she acted in an advisory ~; in his ~ as legal advisor, he helped us a great deal)