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man⋅u⋅fac⋅ture

[man-yuh-fak-cher] noun, verb, -tured, -tur⋅ing.
–noun
1. the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, esp. on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
2. the making or producing of anything; generation: the manufacture of body cells.
3. the thing or material manufactured; product: Plastic is an important manufacture.
–verb (used with object)
4. to make or produce by hand or machinery, esp. on a large scale.
5. to work up (material) into form for use: to manufacture cotton.
6. to invent fictitiously; fabricate; concoct: to manufacture an account of the incident.
7. to produce in a mechanical way without inspiration or originality: to manufacture a daily quota of poetry.

Origin:
1560–70; obs. manufact (see manufactory ) + -ure


man⋅u⋅fac⋅tur⋅a⋅ble, adjective
man⋅u⋅fac⋅tur⋅al, adjective


4. build. Manufacture, assemble, fabricate apply to processes in industry. Manufacture, originally to make by hand, now means to make by machine or by industrial process: to manufacture rubber tires. To assemble is to fit together the manufactured parts of something mechanical: to assemble an automobile. To fabricate is to construct or build by fitting standardized parts together: to fabricate houses. See also make 1 .
man·u·fac·ture   (mān'yə-fāk'chər)   
v.   man·u·fac·tured, man·u·fac·tur·ing, man·u·fac·tures

v.   tr.
    1. To make or process (a raw material) into a finished product, especially by means of a large-scale industrial operation.
    2. To make or process (a product), especially with the use of industrial machines.
  1. To create, produce, or turn out in a mechanical manner: "His books seem to have been manufactured rather than composed" (Dwight Macdonald).
  2. To concoct or invent; fabricate: manufacture an excuse.
v.   intr.
To make or process goods, especially in large quantities and by means of industrial machines.
n.  
    1. The act, craft, or process of manufacturing products, especially on a large scale.
    2. An industry in which mechanical power and machinery are employed.
  1. A product that is manufactured.
  2. The making or producing of something.

[From French, manufacture, from Old French, from Medieval Latin *manūfactūra : Latin manū, ablative of manus, hand; see man-2 in Indo-European roots + Latin factūra, working of a metal, from factus, past participle of facere, to make; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]
man'u·fac'tur·a·ble adj., man'u·fac'tur·al adj., man'u·fac'tur·ing n.

Manufacturing

Man`u*fac"tur*ing\, a. 1. Employed, or chiefly employed, in manufacture; as, a manufacturing community; a manufacturing town.

2. Pertaining to manufacture; as, manufacturing projects.
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