What does manufacture mean?
Definitions for manufacture
ˌmæn yəˈfæk tʃərman·u·fac·ture
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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.
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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Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'manufacture' in Nouns Frequency: #2427
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'manufacture' in Verbs Frequency: #900
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
We used to think: maximize quantity, export more and manufacture more. This isn't working.
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.
Chief Financial Officer John Shrewsberry:
The best way to make progress on these issues is through the political and legislative process, in the meantime, Wells Fargo is engaging our customers that legally manufacture firearms and other stakeholders on what we can do together to promote better gun safety in our communities.
The thing that makes Iran so dangerous is it not only exports Chemical Weapons to proxies in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, but it brags about exporting the ability to manufacture Chemical Weapons.
Israel Defense Forcesspokesman Jonathan Conricus:
Unfortunately, Hamas under international support, I'd say, has been able to stockpile weapons into the Gaza Strip and also to manufacture weapons by themselves homemade inside Gaza using a lot of financial aid from Iran and Iranian knowledge.
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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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