manufacture
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle French manufacture, from Old French, from Medieval Latin manūfactūra (“a making by hand”), from manūfactus, a compound of manū factus, manū being ablative of manus (“hand”), and factus past participle of faciō (“to do, make”).
Compare manual, facture.
Inflected forms:
form: manufactures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: manufactures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: manufacturing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: manufactured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: manufactured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.
pos: noun
examples: After years of exporting the gum base to be used as an ingredient in the manufacture of regular chewing gum, the cooperative recently decided to start making its own gum using only chicle gum base and natural flavorings and sweeteners, Chicza said.
gloss: Anything made, formed or produced; product.
pos: noun
examples: The roads [are] crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures.
Thus, a patented manufacture should be either better in quality or cheaper in cost than that which it is intended to supplant.
gloss: The process of such production; generation, creation.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Our lawgivers take special pride in the ever active manufacture of new bills and laws.
gloss: A watch manufacturer that makes its own parts, rather than assembling watches from parts obtained from other firms.
pos: noun
gloss: To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.
pos: verb
examples: Scientists are learning how to manufacture sperm and egg cells from other types of cell; others are developing "alternative" wombs
An effort was made to fit the flexible tube at least 3 mm deep onto the vasculature; (2) for the remaining systems, 3D-printed polyethylene terephthalate (PET) reservoir blocks were manufactured by PrintPlace using FDM technology. The additively manufactured PET reservoir blocks were previously applied and proven to effectively circulate the agent through the healing network [6].
gloss: To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to manufacture wool into blankets
The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words.
gloss: To fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
examples: The collegian keeps manufacturing new excuses for their tardiness.
Digital technology has made it so easy to manufacture lies that it's become difficult to separate fact from fiction.
Related words: manufact
manufactory
machinofacture
manufacturer
Derived words: biomanufacture
comanufacture
demanufacture
manufacturability
manufacturable
manufacturage
manufactural
manufacture of consent
manufacturess
micromanufacture
mismanufacture
nanomanufacture
nonmanufacture
premanufacture
remanufacture
semimanufacture
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