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Manufacturing   /mˌænjəfˈæktʃərɪŋ/   Listen
Manufacturing

noun
1.
The act of making something (a product) from raw materials.  Synonyms: fabrication, manufacture.  "An improvement in the manufacture of explosives" , "Manufacturing is vital to Great Britain"


Manufacture

verb
(past & past part. manufactured; pres. part. manufacturing)
1.
Put together out of artificial or natural components or parts.  Synonyms: construct, fabricate.  "They manufacture small toys" , "He manufactured a popular cereal"
2.
Make up something artificial or untrue.  Synonyms: cook up, fabricate, invent, make up.
3.
Produce naturally.
4.
Create or produce in a mechanical way.



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"Manufacturing" Quotes from Famous Books



... manufacturers at Athens. Observing (we are told) that many new immigrants were just then flocking into Attica to seek an establishment, in consequence of its greater security, he was anxious to turn them rather to manufacturing industry than to the cultivation of a soil naturally poor. He forbade the granting of citizenship to any immigrants, except to such as had quitted irrevocably their former abodes and come to Athens for the purpose of carrying on some industrial ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 • Various
... summer months. The juice is strained and evaporated and then mixed with various substances, such as oil, fine clay, body pigment, and metallic dust, according to the ware for which it is intended. The manufacturing secrets are carefully guarded. The application of it is very difficult, the sap of young trees being used for first coats, and of old trees for the finishing coats. It must be dried in a damp, close atmosphere. For the best work ten or twelve coats are elaborately rubbed down ...
— Handwork in Wood • William Noyes
... rolling-stock would be replaced. And in the interim the Cardigan mill, unable to get a sufficient supply of logs to fill orders in hand, would be forced to close down. Full well Pennington knew that anything which, tends to bring about a shortage of raw material for any manufacturing plant will result inevitably in the loss ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne
... the ugliness of our great towns in an envelope of atmosphere, giving the most wonderful tone symphonies; thus using man's desecration of her air by smoke to cover up his other desecration of her country-side, a manufacturing town. This study of values is a ...
— The Practice and Science Of Drawing • Harold Speed
... departure for Europe, whither she had refused to follow him, Aileen took up with a secondary personage by the name of Watson Skeet, a sculptor. Unlike most artists, he was the solitary heir of the president of an immense furniture-manufacturing company in which he refused to take any interest. He had studied abroad, but had returned to Chicago with a view to propagating art in the West. A large, blond, soft-fleshed man, he had a kind of archaic naturalness and simplicity which appealed to Aileen. They ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser


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