industrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdʌstɹɪəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪnˈɖɐsʈɾɪɐl/
Forms: form: more industrial
form: most industrial
Etymology: From French industriel. By surface analysis, industry + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The industrial segment of the economy has seen troubles lately.
text: Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
ref: 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
glosses: Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.
examples: text: Handicraft is less standardized then industrial products, hence less artistic or rather flawless.
glosses: Produced by such industry.
examples: text: More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: Used by such industry.
examples: text: This is an industrial product—it's much too strong for home use.
glosses: Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade.
glosses: Massive in scale or quantity.
examples: text: Come, all ye workers, from every land, / Come, join in the grand industrial band; / Then we our share of this earth shall demand.
ref: 1913, “There Is Power in a Union”, in Little Red Songbook, performed by Joe Hill:
glosses: Employed as manpower by such industry.
examples: text: Italy is a part-industrial, part-rural nation.
text: Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
glosses: Having many industries; industrialized.
raw_tags: of a society or country
examples: text: a track with clashing industrial beats
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Belonging or pertaining to the genre of industrial music.
Derived terms: agroindustrial
animal-industrial complex
anti-industrial
antiindustrial
bioindustrial
industrial accident
industrial action
industrial arts
industrial complex
industrial design
industrial designer
industrial design right
industrial diamond
industrial disease
industrial engineering
industrial espionage
industrial estate
industrial-grade
industrialise
industrialism
industrialist
industrialization
industrialize
industrial livestock production
industrially
industrial metal
industrial methylated spirit
industrialness
industrial-organizational psychology
industrial output
industrial park
industrial peace
industrial production
industrial property
industrial punk
industrial quality
industrial relations
industrial rock
industrial scale
industrial school
industrial store
industrial-strength
industrial strength
industrial tribunal
industrial union
interindustrial
marriage-industrial complex
megaindustrial
microindustrial
military-industrial complex
multiindustrial
penal-industrial complex
postindustrial
pre-industrial
prison-industrial complex
proindustrial
protoindustrial
subindustrial
superindustrial
technoindustrial
Related terms: industrious