factory
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Probably from factor + -y, although in noun sense 1 (“a place where manufacturing takes place”) apparently influenced strongly by association with Classical Latin fact-, the past participial stem of faciō (“to make”); compare manufactory and Latin factōrium (“an oil press”). In noun sense 8 (“a trading establishment”), originally after Portuguese feitoria. In noun sense 9 (“an invoice or inventory”), probably after obsolete Dutch facture (“bill”); see facture.
Compare Dutch factorij, Middle French factorie, Spanish factoría.
Base: factor
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: factories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
pos: noun
examples: […] 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.
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.
History has shown that, even without cheap labor, factories run perfectly well.
gloss: A police station.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: 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).
gloss: A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
pos: noun
examples: Radio became a star factory for journalists.
gloss: A factory farm.
pos: noun
examples: chicken factory; pig factory
gloss: In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
pos: noun
examples: The task factory […] is the object that is responsible for creating instances of those tasks dynamically.
gloss: The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: factory settings; factory defaults; a factory reset
gloss: The position or state of being a factor.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
archaic
gloss: A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: We had here his curate, Mr. Furley, who had been nine years chaplain to the English factory at St. Petersburg […] .
gloss: An invoice or inventory.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: A short factory of goods sent to Janggamay by Thomas Samuell as principal, Tho. Dryver, and another named Cheque as assistants, anno 1613 in Sciam, the which amounteth as in a long factory at large appeareth, in Sciam money unto T. 2,025 2 2½, collected into this brief as followeth: […]
What Sterl. is Mr. Lawſon to charge himſelf with, on Account of this Factory, […]
A of Amſterdam is debtor to B of Briſtol, for mercery wares as per factory, 418 l. 2 s. 6 d.; […]
gloss: Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
usually
examples: See how there's another layer of metal there? That's not factory.
Related words: fact
faction
factor
factorial
fashion
Derived words: 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 head
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
glue factory
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
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: fabriek
lang: Finnish
word: tehdas