What does manufacture mean?
Definitions for manufacture
ˌmæn yəˈfæk tʃərman·u·fac·ture
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word manufacture.
Princeton's WordNet
industry, manufacturenoun
the organized action of making of goods and services for sale
"American industry is making increased use of computers to control production"
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"
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"
fabricate, manufacture, cook up, make up, inventverb
make up something artificial or untrue
manufactureverb
produce naturally
"this gland manufactures a specific substance only"
manufactureverb
create or produce in a mechanical way
"This novelist has been manufacturing his books following his initial success"
Wiktionary
manufacturenoun
The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.
manufacturenoun
Anything made, formed or produced; product.
manufacturenoun
The process of such production; generation, creation.
manufactureverb
To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.
manufactureverb
To create goods from raw material, e.g. in a factory.
manufactureverb
In a negative sense, to fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Manufacturenoun
Etymology: manus and facio, Latin; manufacture, French.
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.
To Manufactureverb
To make by art and labour; to form by workmanship.
Etymology: manufacturer, French.
ChatGPT
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 Dictionary
Manufacturenoun
the operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency
Manufacturenoun
anything made from raw materials by the hand, by machinery, or by art, as cloths, iron utensils, shoes, machinery, saddlery, etc
Manufactureverb
to make (wares or other products) by hand, by machinery, or by other agency; as, to manufacture cloth, nails, glass, etc
Manufactureverb
to work, as raw or partly wrought materials, into suitable forms for use; as, to manufacture wool, cotton, silk, or iron
Manufactureverb
to be employed in manufacturing something
Etymology: [L. manus the hand + factura a making, fr. facere to make: cf. F. manufacture. See Manual, and Fact.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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 Contribution
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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British National Corpus
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'manufacture' in Nouns Frequency: #2427
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'manufacture' in Verbs Frequency: #900
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of manufacture in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of manufacture in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of manufacture in a Sentence
They only have a finite number of these transporter erector launchers (TELs), there is no evidence that they can manufacture them, and they don't want to burn through their trucks (during missile tests).
We're looking at comprehensive legislation that, for example, would incentivize companies to get out of China and manufacture to the south of our country, looking at South and Central America.
And here is the thank you that the taxpayers of this country received from Moderna for that huge investment: They are thanking the taxpayers of the United States by proposing to quadruple the price of the Covid vaccine to as much as $130 once the government stockpile runs out – at a time when it costs less than $3 to manufacture the vaccine.
The site was occupied for over 400 years,so who would have lived there must have changed over time, but mainly, at the moment, we are focusing on those practicing intense craft activities [manufacture of metal tools] at the site around 2600-2500 B.C..
People can walk around a scale model and interact with it, it breaks down barriers because the team can share and work on it from different locations, and work out how to best manufacture it.
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- صنع, صناعةArabic
- vyrobit, vyrábět, manufakturaCzech
- Produktion, Produkt, herstellen, HerstellungGerman
- producir, fabricarSpanish
- tuottaa, valmistaaFinnish
- fabrication, fabriquerFrench
- producir, fabricarGalician
- ייצורHebrew
- gyárt, készítHungarian
- fabbricareItalian
- でっちあげる, 製造, 生産する, 捏造する, 製造するJapanese
- 제조하다Korean
- vervaardigen, fabricerenDutch
- wyróbPolish
- fabricar, fabricação, produzirPortuguese
- fabricare, fabrica, produceRomanian
- изготавливатьRussian
- proìzvestiSerbo-Croatian
- proizvestiSlovene
- produktion, produkt, tillverka, fabriceraSwedish
- undaSwahili
- 製造Chinese
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