Manufacture
[mænjʊ'fæktʃə] or ['mænjə'fæktʃɚ]
Definition
(verb.) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts; 'the company fabricates plastic chairs'; 'They manufacture small toys'; He manufactured a popular cereal'.
(verb.) create or produce in a mechanical way; 'This novelist has been manufacturing his books following his initial success'.
(verb.) produce naturally; 'this gland manufactures a specific substance only'.
Inputed by Logan--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.
(n.) Anything made from raw materials by the hand, by machinery, or by art, as cloths, iron utensils, shoes, machinery, saddlery, etc.
(v. t.) To make (wares or other products) by hand, by machinery, or by other agency; as, to manufacture cloth, nails, glass, etc.
(v. t.) To work, as raw or partly wrought materials, into suitable forms for use; as, to manufacture wool, cotton, silk, or iron.
(v. i.) To be employed in manufacturing something.
Typist: Malcolm
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Production, fabrication.[2]. Manufactured product.
v. a. Make by art.
Inputed by Eleanor
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Make, production, fabrication, composition, construction, manipulation,molding
ANT:Use, employment, consumption, wear, manumit,[See ENSLAVE]
Checker: Stella
Definition
v.t. to make from raw materials by any means into a form suitable for use.—v.i. to be occupied in manufactures.—n. the process of manufacturing: anything manufactured.—n. Manufact′ory a factory or place where goods are manufactured.—adj. Manufact′ural.—n. Manufact′urer one who manufactures.—p.adj. Manufact′uring pertaining to manufactures.
Checker: Sumner
Examples
- They would manufacture more and plough less. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The manufacture of the projecting machines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- All the ancient arts of Mexico and Peru have never furnished one single manufacture to Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Notwithstanding the establishment of a regular routine of manufacture and sale, Edison did not cease to experiment for improvement. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To make the manufacture of instruments an ideal is to lose much of their ideal value. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The steel for the manufacture of dies is carefully selected, forged at a high heat into the rough die, softened by careful annealing, and then handed over to the engraver. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The Forty-Niners took revolvers to California, foreign governments sent orders for them, and armories were built in England and in Russia for their manufacture. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Part of the wool of Spain is manufactured in Great Britain, and some part of that cloth is afterwards sent back to Spain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The shrewd prophecy is made that gas will be manufactured less for lighting, as the result of electrical competition, and more and more for heating, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As a result of this, soda was soon manufactured from common salt. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Other improvements were made, and in 1891 the first hundred machines that were really marketable were manufactured. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- You know that these have to be manufactured by artificial light, as exposure to sunlight always results in an explosion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- So trim her waist, her cap, her dress--I wondered how they had all been manufactured. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He sells, therefore, his rude produce for money, with which he can purchase, wherever it is to be had, the manufactured produce he has occasion for. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In a generation or two, education, emigration, improvements in agriculture and manufactures, may have provided the solution. Plato. The Republic.
- Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Its agriculture, manufactures, and trade, on the contrary, the annual produce of its land and labour, have evidently been augmented. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company, has the same effect as a secret in trade or manufactures. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The productions of the General Electric Company alone average annual sales of nearly $75,000,000, but they do not comprise the total of the country's manufactures in these lines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The manufactures of Flanders were carried on chiefly with Spanish and English wool. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The art of manufacturing gems synthetically, that is, by the combination of chemical elements present in the real stone, has reached a high degree of success. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I reckon 'at us manufacturing lads i' th' north is a deal more intelligent, and knaws a deal more nor th' farming folk i' th' south. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- At any rate, he has property there, which has very much increased in value since Milton has become such a large manufacturing town. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Thus, broadly, the manufacturing end of the problem of introduction was cared for. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The first railroads to be built were principally branches of the Liverpool and Manchester one, and chiefly located in the mining and manufacturing county of Lancaster. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Adding machines may be found at work in all kinds of business places from corner groceries to department stores and manufacturing plants. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In February of 1897 the receiver sold the three Field patents to their original owner, and he in turn sold them to the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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