Industrial
[ɪn'dʌstrɪəl]
Definition
(adj.) suitable to stand up to hard wear; 'industrial carpeting' .
(adj.) having highly developed industries; 'the industrial revolution'; 'an industrial nation' .
(adj.) employed in industry; 'the industrial classes'; 'industrial work' .
(adj.) of or relating to or resulting from industry; 'industrial output' .
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Definition
(a.) Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor, especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and rights.
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Examples
- It is, of course, arbitrary to separate industrial competency from capacity in good citizenship. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- So that the progress of future inventions depends on the outcome of the great economic, industrial, and social battles which are now looming on the pathway of the future. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- While the frictional appliance is still employed in medicine, it ranks with the flint axe and the tinder-box in industrial obsolescence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The destinies of society are felt to be too solidly set in industrial conditions to allow any cultural direction. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- One of the most important and lucrative industrial processes of the world to-day is that of staining and dyeing. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I began to feel the force of Mr. John Hobson's remark that if practical workers for social and industrial reforms continue to ignore principles . Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- With the coming of the machine inventions and the new industrial and social ideas of the eighteenth century came an almost sudden new appreciation of the value of time. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A powerful business corporation still preserves its industrial tradition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Instead of telling business men not to be greedy, we should tell them to be industrial statesmen, applied scientists, and members of a craft. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The average rate of industrial growth in the United States is 10 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Effect of Economic, Industrial and Social Life upon Inventions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Did you ever realize that practically all industrial chemistry is colloidal in its nature? Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But to enumerate the industrial arts to which air and other pneumatic machines have been adapted would be to catalogue them all. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Four raw new towns, and many ugly industrial hamlets were crowded under his dependence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The important changes made from that time up to 1890 converted the phonograph from a scientific toy into a successful industrial apparatus. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Through his extraordinary energy and enterprise the business made enormous strides, and Mr. Rathenau has become one of the most conspicuous industrial figures in his native country. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Britain was producing a great industrial population, Protestant or sceptical; she had agricultural labourers indeed, but no peasants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It's a simple industrial accident. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Many of our existing social activities, industrial and political, fall in these two classes. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The workers may protest, but industrial progress demands the more economic method. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Primitive history suggests industrial history. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The whole drift towards industrial training in schools has the germs of disaster within it--a preoccupation with the technique of a career. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- These new industrial centres were at first without schools, without churches. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had ignored the whole of the industrial sea which surged in coal-blackened tides against the grounds of the house. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The fact was they had done their work so well they must now disperse to show the world what it was, and assist in its industrial exploitation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He had to be educated--if only to secure industrial efficiency. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- An industrial revolution analogous to that in manufacture during the nineteenth century is distinctly probable, and capitalistic agriculture may soon cease to be a contradiction in terms. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There are many forms of pumps, and they serve widely different purposes, being essential to the operation of many industrial undertakings. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But Rome never produced a very considerable industrial population, and her warehouses never rivalled those of Alexandria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It steers a course between exploitation by a bureaucracy in the interests of the consumer--the socialist danger--and oppressive monopolies by industrial unions--the syndicalist danger. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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