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FACTORY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
Synonyms:
factory; manufactory; manufacturing plant; mill
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("factory" is a kind of...):
industrial plant; plant; works (buildings for carrying on industrial labor)
Meronyms (parts of "factory"):
assembly line; line; production line (mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it)
shop floor (workplace consisting of the part of a factory housing the machines)
Domain member category:
conveyer; conveyer belt; conveyor; conveyor belt; transporter (a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory))
closed-circuit television (a television system that is not used for broadcasting but is connected by cables to designated monitors (as in a factory or theater))
uptime (a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is functioning and available for use)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "factory"):
assembly plant (a factory where manufactured parts are assembled into a finished product)
auto factory; automobile factory; car factory (a factory where automobiles are manufactured)
cannery (a factory where food is canned)
chemical plant (an industrial plant where chemicals are produced)
foundry; metalworks (factory where metal castings are produced)
lumbermill; sawmill (a mill for dressing logs and lumber)
paper mill (a mill where paper is manufactured)
stamp mill; stamping mill (a mill in which ore is crushed with stamps)
steel factory; steel mill; steel plant; steelworks (a factory where steel is made)
sweatshop (factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry)
textile mill (a factory for making textiles)
Context examples:
My father had a small factory at Coventry, which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Very clever were some of their productions, pasteboard guitars, antique lamps made of old-fashioned butter boats covered with silver paper, gorgeous robes of old cotton, glittering with tin spangles from a pickle factory, and armor covered with the same useful diamond shaped bits left in sheets when the lids of preserve pots were cut out.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
1350 light years away, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter), lies a dense and active star formation factory called the Orion Molecular Cloud 1 (OMC-1), part of the same complex as the famous Orion Nebula.
(Dramatic Stellar Fireworks of Star Birth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
1350 light years away, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter), lies a dense and active star formation factory called the Orion Molecular Cloud 1 (OMC-1), part of the same complex as the famous Orion Nebula.
(ALMA Captures Dramatic Stellar Fireworks, ESO)
I have been looking up the dates in the old files of the paper, and I find that the disappearance of the pearl was exactly two days before the arrest of Beppo, for some crime of violence—an event which took place in the factory of Gelder & Co., at the very moment when these busts were being made.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To modernize its military, in 2018, Hungary licensed Czech firearm technology and started assembling firearms in Kiskunfélegyháza, then agreed with Airbus to open a helicopter parts factory as a joint venture in Gyula.
(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)
A combination of factors is at play: desertification of the Asian continent, which allows more dust to be carried on the wind; combustion, especially from wildfires; factory outputs; and wind patterns across the North Pacific Ocean.
(North Pacific Ocean fertilized by iron in Asian dust, National Science Foundation)
I often see people on TV being interviewed who say they were a lawyer but were compelled to open a yogurt factory and now distribute to 32 countries.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
He saw the weak and sickly faces of the girls of the factories, and the simpering, boisterous girls from the south of Market.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Her salary will be thirty pounds a year: her house is already furnished, very simply, but sufficiently, by the kindness of a lady, Miss Oliver; the only daughter of the sole rich man in my parish—Mr. Oliver, the proprietor of a needle- factory and iron-foundry in the valley.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
