 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
manufacture
noun
1: the organized action of making of goods and services for
sale; "American industry is making increased use of
computers to control production" [syn: {industry}]
2: the act of making something (a product) from raw materials;
"the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an
improvement in the manufacture of explosives";
"manufacturing is vital to Great Britain" [syn: {fabrication}]
verb
1: put together out of components or parts; "the company
fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small
toys" [syn: {fabricate}, {construct}]
2: make up something artificial or untrue [syn: {fabricate}, {cook
up}, {make up}, {invent}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Manufacture \Man'u*fac"ture\, verb (used without an object)
To be employed in manufacturing something.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Manufacture \Man'u*fac"ture\, noun [L. manus the hand + factura a
making, fr. facere to make: cf. F. manufacture. See {Manual},
and {Fact}.]
1. The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by
machinery, or by other agency.
2. Anything made from raw materials by the hand, by
machinery, or by art, as cloths, iron utensils, shoes,
machinery, saddlery, etc.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Manufacture \Man'u*fac"ture\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p.
{Manufactured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Manufacturing}.] [Cf. F.
manufacturer.]
1. To make (wares or other products) by hand, by machinery,
or by other agency; as, to manufacture cloth, nails,
glass, etc.
2. To work, as raw or partly wrought materials, into suitable
forms for use; as, to manufacture wool, cotton, silk, or
iron.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
186 Moby Thesaurus words for "manufacture":
anatomy, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, artifact,
assemble, assembly, basic training, brainchild, briefing, build,
building, cast, casting, child, clearing the decks, coinage,
compose, composition, compound, concoct, concoction, conformation,
constitution, construct, construction, contrive, conversion,
cook up, counterfeit, crafting, craftsmanship, create, creation,
creature, crowning achievement, cultivation, devise, devising,
distillation, effect, elaborate, elaboration, end product,
equipment, erect, erection, essence, evolve, extract, extraction,
extrude, fabric, fabricate, fabrication, fake, familiarization,
fantasize, fashion, fashioning, fixing, forge, forging, form,
format, formation, forming, formulate, formulation, foundation,
frame, framing, fruit, fudge, fudge together, get up, getup,
groundwork, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, hatch,
hoke up, indite, invent, invention, issue, machining, make,
make up, makeready, makeup, making, making ready, manufacturing,
mass production, mass-produce, masterpiece, masterwork, mature,
milling, mining, mintage, mobilization, mold, molding, new mintage,
offspring, opera, opus, opuscule, organic structure, organism,
organization, originate, origination, outcome, outgrowth,
patch together, pattern, patterning, physique, piece together,
plan, planning, prearrangement, prefabricate, prefabrication,
preliminaries, preliminary, preliminary act, preliminary step,
prep, preparation, preparatory study, prepare, preparing, prepping,
prerequisite, pretreatment, processing, produce, producing,
product, production, propaedeutic, provision, put together, put up,
putting out, putting together, raise, raising, readying, rear,
refining, result, run up, set up, setup, shape, shaping, smelting,
spadework, structure, structuring, tectonics, texture, think up,
tissue, training, treatment, trial, trump up, tryout, turn out,
turning out, warm-up, warp and woof, weave, web, whomp up, work,
workmanship, write
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