The meaning of Factory

ˈfakt(ə)ri

Factory – definition

noun
A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.
Usage examples:
A clothing factory
Synonims:
Works Plant Manufacturing complex/facility Yard Mill Industrial unit Business unit Workshop Shop Shop floor Manufactory
noun
An establishment for traders carrying on business in a foreign country.
Usage examples:
He is chaplain to the british factory at st petersburg

Factory translation into English

Factory: translate from English into Chinese

工厂, 厂, 厂家, 厂子

Factory: translate from English into Dutch

Fabriek, Fabrieks, Factorij

Factory: translate from English into French

Usine, Fabrique, Manufacture

Factory: translate from English into German

Fabrik, Werk-, Werk, Betrieb

Factory: translate from English into Hindi

कारखाना, फैक्टरी, मिल, मिल का, शिल्पशाला, कोठी, आढ़तिया, निर्माण शाला, कारख़ाना, फ़ैक्टरी, कारख़ाने का

Factory: translate from English into Italian

Fabbrica, Stabilimento, Manifattura, Opificio

Factory: translate from English into Korean

공장, 해외 대리점, 교도소, 공장의

Factory: translate from English into Russian

Фабрика, Завод, Заводской, Фабричный, Фактория

Factory: translate from English into Spanish

Fábrica, Factoría, Comisaría

Word origin

late 16th century (in factory (sense 2)): via Portuguese feitoria from medieval Latin factoria, from Latin factor (see factor). factory (sense 1) based on late Latin factorium, literally ‘oil

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Factory – similar words

factories

noun
A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.
Usage examples:
A clothing factory

noun
A building or buildings where people use machines to produce goods
Usage examples:
She worked in a factory that produced air conditioners.

noun
A building or set of buildings in which machines are used to produce large amounts of manufactured goods
Usage examples:
She works in a car factory., a cigarette/clothing/textile, etc. factory the textile factory used to…

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factorials

noun
The product of an integer and all the integers below it; e.g. factorial four ( 4! ) is equal to 24.

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factorial

noun
The product of an integer and all the integers below it; e.g. factorial four (4!) is equal to 24.
Usage examples:
The gamma function is undefined for zero and negative integers, from which we can conclude that fac…

adjective
The product of an integer and all the integers below it; e.g. factorial four ( 4! ) is equal to 24.

noun
The product of (= the result of multiplying) a whole number and all the whole numbers below it
Usage examples:
The factorial of five (5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1) is 120., four factorial (4 x 3 x 2 x 1) is 24., an experi…

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Factory synonims

manufactory

noun
A factory.
Usage examples:
The workshops and manufactories became breeding grounds for radical ideas to take hold.

noun
A word used in the past for a factory, sometimes still used in the names of companies
Usage examples:
The soho manufactory was an early factory which pioneered mass production on the assembly line prin…

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mill

noun
A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour.
Usage examples:
At mills or bakeries, barley flour can be added to flours from other grains for baking.

verb
Grind (something) in a mill.
Usage examples:
Hard wheats are easily milled into white flour

noun
A monetary unit used only in calculations, worth one thousandth of a dollar.
Usage examples:
A thick paper (and later a lightweight metal) coin with a round hole in the center, the mill was wo…

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plant

noun
A living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots, and synthesizing nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis using the green pigment chlorophyll.
Usage examples:
Eventually, it melts to supply water and nutrients to plants and aquatic organisms.

verb
Put (a seed, bulb, or plant) in the ground so that it can grow.
Usage examples:
We planted a lot of fruit trees

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shop

noun
A building or part of a building where goods or services are sold.
Usage examples:
A video shop

verb
Visit one or more shops or websites to buy goods.
Usage examples:
She shopped for groceries twice a week

verb
To look for and buy (things)
Usage examples:
We shop in malls because they’re convenient., a bicycle repair shop, i work in a machine shop makin…

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works

noun
Activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result.
Usage examples:
He was tired after a day's work

verb
Be engaged in physical or mental activity in order to achieve a result; do work.
Usage examples:
She has been working so hard

plural noun
All the extra things that may be offered with something
Usage examples:
This camera came with a carrying case, zoom lens, tripod – the works.

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workshop

noun
A room or building in which goods are manufactured or repaired.
Usage examples:
Giant disused workshops and factory buildings would be flattened to make way for new homes and busi…

verb
Present a performance of (a dramatic work), using intensive group discussion and improvisation in order to explore aspects of the production prior to formal staging.
Usage examples:
The play was workshopped briefly at the shaw festival

noun
A space in a building equipped with tools and often machines for making or repairing things
Usage examples:
A teacher-training workshop

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yard

noun
A unit of linear measure equal to 3 feet (0.9144 metre).
Usage examples:
A full skirt that took twenty yards of cloth

verb
Store or transport (wood) in or to a timber yard.
Usage examples:
He is the last logger to be using a sled for yarding logs

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