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Manufacture   /mˌænjəfˈæktʃər/   Listen
Manufacture

noun
1.
The organized action of making of goods and services for sale.  Synonym: industry.
2.
The act of making something (a product) from raw materials.  Synonyms: fabrication, manufacturing.  "An improvement in the manufacture of explosives" , "Manufacturing is vital to Great Britain"
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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"Manufacture" Quotes from Famous Books



... The men are the wastrels, the adventure-lovers and gamblers, and in the end it is by their women that they are saved. About man's first experiment in chemistry was the making of alcohol, and down all the generations to this day man has continued to manufacture and drink it. And there has never been a day when the women have not resented man's use of alcohol, though they have never had the power to give weight to their resentment. The moment women get the vote in any community, the first thing they proceed to do is to close the saloons. In ...
— John Barleycorn • Jack London
... in fact. It is often a long road between an inventor's first idea and a machine that will do all he wants it to. And he had nothing to work with, but had to make his own tools and manufacture his own wire, and work upward from the very ...
— Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris
... The manufacture of glow-lamps is now an important industry. One brand of lamp[20] is made as follows:—First, cotton-wool is dissolved in chloride of zinc, and forms a treacly solution, which is squirted through a fine nozzle into a settling solution which hardens it and ...
— How it Works • Archibald Williams
... Justice Hall, Old Bailey.(1365) Not only money but material also was required to enable the City to carry out its building operations. To this end a Bill was introduced into parliament to facilitate the City's manufacture of lime, brick and tile.(1366) A sub-tenant of the City holding five acres of land in the parish of St. Giles in the Fields obtained permission from the Court of Aldermen to "digg and cast upp the ...
— London and the Kingdom - Volume II • Reginald R. Sharpe
... the legislature were one disorganizing the County of Green River, in which the army was encamped, and attaching it for legislative and judicial purposes to Great Salt Lake County; another divesting the Governor of power to license the manufacture of ardent spirits, and conferring that authority upon the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; and several others in pursuance of the system of granting away large tracts of public ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 18, April, 1859 - [Date last updated: August 7, 2005] • Various


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