Definitions for Factories
fac·to·ries

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1. factoriesnoun

   Plural form of factory.

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1. factories

   A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. They are a critical part of modern economic production, with the majority of the world's goods being created or processed within factories. Factories arose with the introduction of machinery during the Industrial Revolution, when the capital and space requirements became too great for cottage industry or workshops. Early factories that contained small amounts of machinery, such as one or two spinning mules, and fewer than a dozen workers have been called "glorified workshops".Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production. Large factories tend to be located with access to multiple modes of transportation, some having rail, highway and water loading and unloading facilities. In some countries like Australia, it is common to call a factory building a "Shed". Factories may either make discrete products or some type of continuously produced material, such as chemicals, pulp and paper, or refined oil products. Factories manufacturing chemicals are often called plants and may have most of their equipment – tanks, pressure vessels, chemical reactors, pumps and piping – outdoors and operated from control rooms. Oil refineries have most of their equipment outdoors. Discrete products may be final goods, or parts and sub-assemblies which are made into final products elsewhere. Factories may be supplied parts from elsewhere or make them from raw materials. Continuous production industries typically use heat or electricity to transform streams of raw materials into finished products. The term mill originally referred to the milling of grain, which usually used natural resources such as water or wind power until those were displaced by steam power in the 19th century. Because many processes like spinning and weaving, iron rolling, and paper manufacturing were originally powered by water, the term survives as in steel mill, paper mill, etc.

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1. Factories

   of Factory

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Factories' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4314

Anagrams for Factories »

1. factorise

How to pronounce Factories?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Factories in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Factories in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Factories in a Sentence

1. Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia:

   There are disturbances in the city, there was even shooting into the crowd, [they] say, but everything is quiet on the Nevsky. They are asking for bread and the factories are on strike.

2. Raffaele Petralla:

   Near each factory there was the village of the workers, so there were all the families that work inside the factories, the houses were very bad -- only 1.5 meters high, so you can't even stand up inside -- and (they were) without electricity.

3. Natacha Alpert:

   The fashion and apparel world is still in cut-and-sew in the factories.

4. Tim Cook of Apple:

   When you look at the parts that are done in China, we have reopened factories, so the factories were able to work through the conditions to reopen. They're reopening. They're also in ramp, and so I think of this as sort of the third phase of getting back to normal. And we're in phase three of the ramp mode.

5. Russ Vought:

   I think this is the real problem with earmarks, is that earmarks take the attention away from serious policymaking and take senators and member offices and turns them into essentially pork factories where much of their time, much of their limited resources is attempting to do the paperwork and investigate these organizations that they are then going to put their names behind, and all of that comes at the opportunity tradeoff from doing real policy reforms, being policy entrepreneurs and providing real leadership on the issues of the day.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Factories
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factories
3. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Factories