factory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæk.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈfæk.tɹi/
ipa: /ˈfæk.tɚ.i/
ipa: /ˈfæk.tɹi/
rhymes: -æktəɹi
rhymes: -æktɹi
Forms: form: factories
Etymology: From factor + y.
Compare Middle French factorie; Spanish factoría, Portuguese feitoria, Dutch factorij.
Senses: examples: text: […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: History has shown that, even without cheap labor, factories run perfectly well.
synonyms: manufactory
glosses: A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
examples: text: The guys all knew each other and we were having a jolly old chinwag as we marched them out of the house in front of their stunned neighbours and into a van we had called to take them all to the Factory (police station).
ref: 2010, Harry Keeble, Kris Hollington, Crack House:
glosses: A police station.
examples: text: Radio became a star factory for journalists.
ref: 2009, Sam Riley, Star Struck: An Encyclopedia of Celebrity Culture, page 200:
glosses: A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
examples: text: chicken factory; pig factory
glosses: A factory farm.
examples: text: The task factory […] is the object that is responsible for creating instances of those tasks dynamically.
ref: 2010, Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi, William Bartholomew, Inside the Microsoft Build Engine:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
examples: text: factory settings; factory defaults; a factory reset
glosses: The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer.
glosses: The position or state of being a factor.
examples: text: We had here his curate, Mr. Furley, who had been nine years chaplain to the English factory at St. Petersburg […] .
ref: 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 184
glosses: A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
Hyponyms: sense: trading establishment
word: fondaco
sense: trading establishment
word: trading post
sense: trading establishment
word: colony
Derived terms: abstract factory class
abstract factory pattern
antifactory
arms factory
autofactory
baby factory
beauty factory
B-factory
biofactory
bum factory
cat factory
dark factory
daylight factory
don't fuck in the factory
dream factory
dropout factory
factoried
factory-backed
factory class
factory edge
factory farming
factory leg
factorylike
factory mark
factory method pattern
factory pattern
factory reset
factoryscape
factory second
factory setting
factory ship
factory team
factorywise
factoryworker
Fty.
gargle-factory
get to the fireworks factory
gigafactory
Higgs factory
interfactory
intrafactory
kitten factory
like an explosion in a paint factory
megafactory
milk factory
Moose Factory
nanofactory
nonfactory
poop factory
postfactory
prefactory
sausage factory
send to the glue factory
shadow factory
shit factory
star factory
subfactory
think factory
troll factory
Turán's brick factory problem
York Factory
Related terms: fact
faction
factor
factorial
fashion