manufacture

  • 1manufacture — [ manyfaktyr ] n. f. • 1511 « travail manuel »; lat. médiév. manufactura 1 ♦ Vx Fabrication. Mod. École centrale des arts et manufactures. 2 ♦ (1623) Vx ou hist. Grande fabrique, établissement industriel utilisant surtout le travail à la main… …

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  • 2Manufacture — Man u*fac ture, v. t. [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. [1913… …

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  • 3manufacture — [v1] build, produce accomplish, assemble, carve, cast, cobble*, complete, compose, construct, create, execute, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, frame, fudge together*, machine, make, make up, mass produce, mill, mold, prefab, process, put… …

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  • 4Manufacture — Man u*fac ture, n. [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. [1913 Webster] 2. Anything… …

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  • 5manufacture — I noun assemblage, assembly, composition, construction, creation, development, execution, fabrica, fabrication, fashioning, forging, formation, forming, making, molding, origination, preparation, production, synthesis II verb assemble, build,… …

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  • 6Manufacture — Man u*fac ture, v. i. To be employed in manufacturing something. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 7manufacturé — manufacturé, ée (ma nu fa ktu ré, rée) part. passé de manufacturer. Objets manufacturés …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 8manufacture — fabricate, forge, *make, form, shape, fashion Analogous words: produce, turn out, yield (see BEAR) …

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  • 9manufacture — Manufacture, f. antepenac. C est la façon de quelque ouvrage faicte à la main …

    Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • 10manufacture — ► VERB 1) make (something), especially on a large scale using machinery. 2) (manufactured) made or produced in a merely mechanical way. 3) invent or fabricate (evidence or a story). ► NOUN ▪ the process of manufacturing. DERIVATIVES …

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