manufacture
Syllables: man·u·fac·ture/ˌmanjʊˈfaktʃə/US/ˌmænjuˈfækt͡ʃɚ/
manufacture noun: the action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.
Noun
manufacture (plural manufactures)
- The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.
- After years of exporting the gum base to be used as an ingredient in the manufacture of regular chewing gum, the cooperative recently decided to start making its own gum using only chicle gum base and natural flavorings and sweeteners, Chicza said.2009 April 3, Olivia Feld, “New gum could mean sticky end for mess”, in CNN, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2009
- Anything made, formed or produced; product.
- The roads [are] crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures.1727, Jonathan Swift, A Short View of the State of Ireland
- Thus, a patented manufacture should be either better in quality or cheaper in cost than that which it is intended to supplant.1853, Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences, page 133
- The process of such production; generation, creation.
- Our lawgivers take special pride in the ever active manufacture of new bills and laws.1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress
- A watch manufacturer that makes its own parts, rather than assembling watches from parts obtained from other firms.
Verb
manufacture (third-person singular simple present manufactures, present participle manufacturing, simple past and past participle manufactured)
- To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.
- Scientists are learning how to manufacture sperm and egg cells from other types of cell; others are developing "alternative" wombs2008 July 23, Michael Brooks, “Comment: It's time for the Vatican to accept IVF”, in New Scientist, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2016
- An effort was made to fit the flexible tube at least 3 mm deep onto the vasculature; (2) for the remaining systems, 3D-printed polyethylene terephthalate (PET) reservoir blocks were manufactured by PrintPlace using FDM technology. The additively manufactured PET reservoir blocks were previously...2022 May 9, Eleni Tsangouri et al., “Reservoir-Vascular Tubes Network for Self-Healing Concrete: Performance Analysis by Acoustic Emission, Digital Image Correlation and Ultrasound Velocity”, in...
- To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use.
- to manufacture wool into blankets
- The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing...2021 January 5, Peter Foster, “Peter Foster: Sustainable Newspeak by 2050”, in Financial Post, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2021
- To fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point.
- The collegian keeps manufacturing new excuses for their tardiness.
- Digital technology has made it so easy to manufacture lies that it's become difficult to separate fact from fiction.2000 December 10, Daniel Zalewski, “The Misinformation Age”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2022
manufacture meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
manufacture in Hindi
- to make things
- उत्पादन करना utpādan karnā
- to produce goods
- उत्पादन करना utpādan karnā
manufacture in Tamil
- to make things
- தயாரி tayāri
- to produce goods
- தயாரி tayāri
manufacture in Urdu
- ساخت, ساخت گری کرنا, بنانا, گھڑنا, صنعت کرنا, تھوک پر بنانا
manufacture in Bengali
- manufacture, formation, production
- প্রস্তুতি prostuti
More languagesFewer languages
- manufacture in Telugu
- నిర్మాణము nirmāṇamu
- manufacture in Malayalam
- ഉൽപ്പാദിപ്പിക്കുക ulppādippikkuka
- manufacture in Kannada
- ಮಾಡು, ಕಟ್ಟು
- manufacture in Sanskrit
- कृति kṛti
- manufacture in Arabic
- صَنَعَ ṣanaʕa, أَنْتَجَ ʔantaja
- manufacture in Indonesian
- manufaktur
- manufacture in Persian
- تولید کردن towlid kardan, دستورزیدن dastvarzidan
- manufacture in Thai
- ผลิต pà-lìt, ทำ tam
- manufacture in Vietnamese
- sản xuất, chế tạo
Examples of manufacture in a sentence
- The design needs to be field-tested before we commit to manufacture.
- They decided to outsource the design and manufacture of the system to a vendor.
- The company had engineered plenty of products, but manufacturing them was virgin territory.
Forms of manufacture
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | manufactures |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | manufactures |
| present participle | manufacturing |
| past participle | manufactured |
| past | manufactured |
Origin of manufacture
From Middle French manufacture, from Old French, from Medieval Latin manūfactūra (“a making by hand”), from manūfactus, a compound of manū factus, manū being ablative of manus (“hand”), and factus past participle of faciō (“to do, make”). Compare manual, facture.
Words formed from manufacture
Words that rhyme with manufacture
Questions about manufacture
- What does manufacture mean?
- Manufacture means the action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.
- What is manufacture in Hindi?
- Manufacture in Hindi is उत्पादन करना (utpādan karnā). See Manufacture meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is manufacture?
- Manufacture can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce manufacture?
- Manufacture is pronounced /ˌmænjuˈfækt͡ʃɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of manufacture?
- The plural of manufacture is manufactures.
Words near manufacture in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: manufacture (page history and authors); manufacture (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); প্রস্তুতি (Bengali) (page history and authors); నిర్మాణము (Telugu) (page history and authors); ഉൽപ്പാദിപ്പിക്കുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); manufacture (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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