Definitions for Manufacture
ˌmæn yəˈfæk tʃərman·u·fac·ture

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. industry, manufacturenoun

   the organized action of making of goods and services for sale

   "American industry is making increased use of computers to control production"

2. fabrication, manufacture, manufacturingverb

   the act of making something (a product) from raw materials

   "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an improvement in the manufacture of explosives"; "manufacturing is vital to Great Britain"

3. manufacture, fabricate, constructverb

   put together out of artificial or natural components or parts

   "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys"; He manufactured a popular cereal"

4. fabricate, manufacture, cook up, make up, inventverb

   make up something artificial or untrue

5. manufactureverb

   produce naturally

   "this gland manufactures a specific substance only"

6. manufactureverb

   create or produce in a mechanical way

   "This novelist has been manufacturing his books following his initial success"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. manufacturenoun

   The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.

2. manufacturenoun

   Anything made, formed or produced; product.

3. manufacturenoun

   The process of such production; generation, creation.

4. manufactureverb

   To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.

5. manufactureverb

   To create goods from raw material, e.g. in a factory.

6. manufactureverb

   In a negative sense, to fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Manufacturenoun

   Etymology: manus and facio, Latin; manufacture, French.

   1. The practice of making any piece of workmanship.2. Any thing made by art.

   Heav’n’s pow’r is infinite: earth, air, and sea,
   The manufacture mass the making pow’r obey. Dryden.

   The peasants are clothed in a coarse kind of canvas, the manufacture of the country. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

2. To Manufactureverb

   To make by art and labour; to form by workmanship.

   Etymology: manufacturer, French.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. manufacture

   Manufacture is the process of converting raw materials or semi-finished goods into finished products using tools, human labor, machinery, or chemical and biological processing. It may involve various operations like designing, fabricating, packaging, testing, among others. This term may also refer to the production of goods in large quantities, often in a factory setting.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Manufacturenoun

   the operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency

2. Manufacturenoun

   anything made from raw materials by the hand, by machinery, or by art, as cloths, iron utensils, shoes, machinery, saddlery, etc

3. Manufactureverb

   to make (wares or other products) by hand, by machinery, or by other agency; as, to manufacture cloth, nails, glass, etc

4. Manufactureverb

   to work, as raw or partly wrought materials, into suitable forms for use; as, to manufacture wool, cotton, silk, or iron

5. Manufactureverb

   to be employed in manufacturing something

6. Etymology: [L. manus the hand + factura a making, fr. facere to make: cf. F. manufacture. See Manual, and Fact.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Manufacture

   man-ū-fakt′ūr, 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. [Fr.,—L. manus, the hand, factura, a making, from facĕre, factum, to make.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. manufacture

   To create a product from a form of material or matter.

   The company did manufacture roof tiles.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 23, 2020  

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1. manufacture

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1. • Create
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British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Manufacture' in Nouns Frequency: #2427

2. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Manufacture' in Verbs Frequency: #900

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Manufacture in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Manufacture in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Manufacture in a Sentence

1. Dave Smolenksy:

   CRRC has no plans of building freight railcars in the U.S. and is focused exclusively on the manufacture of passenger railcars in the U.S..

2. Ben Perkins:

   As speeds improve, this kind of real-time product design, development and manufacture is going to be increasingly scaled, don't look at your customer base today but look at them tomorrow and think about how you need to embed these approaches and technologies ... in your organisation now.

3. Richard Hatchett:

   We want to make investments up front, at risk, even before we know the vaccines work, to be able to (immediately) manufacture them at a scale of tens or hundreds of millions of doses.

4. Goodluck Jonathan:

   We underestimated their external influence, since after the civil war we've not fought any war, we don't manufacture weapons, so we had to look for help to re-equip our army and the air force.

5. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo:

   I think the federal government should order factories to manufacture masks, gowns, ventilators, the essential medical equipment that is going to make the difference between life and death, it's not hard to make a mask or PPE( Personal Protective Equipment) equipment or a gown, but you need companies to do it.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Manufacture
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Manufacture
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Manufacture
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Manufacture
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Manufacture