Manufacture

Definition: Manufacture

Manufacture

Noun

1. The organized action of making of goods and services for sale; "American industry is making increased use of computers to control production".

2. The act of making something (a product) from raw materials.

Verb

1. Put together out of components or parts; "Ford makes cars"; "They manufacture small toys".

2. Make up something artificial or untrue.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "manufacture" was first used: 1567. (references)

Note: Manufacture \Man`u*fac"ture\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Manufactured; Manufacturing.]. (references)

Slang in 1811

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Manufacture

Action

Deed, act, overt act, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat; tour de force; (display); feat, exploit; achievement; (completion); handiwork, workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy; (plan).

Production

Verb: produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish; (complete).

Noun: {ant., } production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture; building, architecture, erection, edification; coinage; diaster; organization; nisus formativus; putting together; Verb: establishment; workmanship, performance; achievement; (completion).

Crosswords: Manufacture

French (factory, manufactory).

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it. (S1m0ne; writing credit: Andrew Niccol)

You have to manufacture Inspirado (Tenacious D; writing credit: Masato Ochi)

Excuses are the easiest things to manufacture, and the hardest things to sell. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Presses, Crushers, and Similar Machinery Used in the Manufacture of Wine, Cider, Fruit Juices, and Similar Beverages: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Antique Jewellery: Its Manufacture, Materials, & Design (reference)

• From Domestic Manufacture to Industrial Revolution: The Case of the Rhineland Textile Districts (reference)

• MEMS and Microsystems: Design and Manufacture (reference)

• Product Design for Manufacture & Assembly Revised & Expanded (reference)

• Test Engineering: A Concise Guide to Cost-Effective Design, Development, and Manufacture (Quality and Reliability Engineering) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Ca Selects: Plastics Manufacture & Processing (reference)

• Directory Of Chinese Vehicle Component And Parts Manufacture (reference)

• Electronics Manufacture And Test (reference)

• Food Manufacture (reference)

• Journal Of Machinery Manufacture And Reliability (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Manufacture of Military Airpla (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Live in the Manufacture [IMPORT] [LIVE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Figure 43. A modified Richard messenger bottle designed to improve the action of the messenger in inverting the bottle. Commercial manufacture of this type of bottle began in 1911 by Max Marx. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 67. British Admiralty echo sounder, model MS X. In the 1930's the British Admiralty designed a magnetostrictive ultrasonic sounding device which subsequently led to the manufacture of magnetostrictive sounding systems by Hughes and Son Ltd. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

View of the foundry department breaker house. Photograph by Jet Lowe, 1979. (Reproduction Number: HAER, MONT, 12-ANAC.V,1-4) The copper mining town of Anaconda is known for the manufacture and sale of hardware, machinery, and supplies for mining companies. It is also known for its precast building parts and ornaments, such as storefronts and lampposts, made from recycled scrap iron. The Anaconda Reduction Department's breaker house shown here was built around 1900 to break down scrap iron before it was shipped to the furnace for melting and eventual reuse. Credit: Library of Congress.

Caption: Phonograph Disc Manufacture; West Orange, NJ; Unknown Date; {29.410/37} (jpg).

Poster from the "What the Navy is Doing" series, published by the Navy Recruiting Bureau, New York, circa 1919. It depicts the manufacture of 16"/50 guns at the Washington Navy Yard, D.C., for installation in the Lexington (CC-1) class battle cruisers and South Dakota (BB-49) class battleships then planned or in early stages of construction. Also shown are pictures of the battle cruiser design, a firing test at Indian Head, Maryland, and the effect of 16-inch shells on heavy armor. Credit: NAVY.

Bessemer steel manufacture / A.R. Waud. Credit: Library of Congress.

A Visit to the West Indies--the manufacture of sugar--III. In the purging house--cutting and crushing the sugar. Credit: Library of Congress.

A part of the shop in a Midwestern company which has converted its machines and trained labor forces from the manufacture of motors and fans to the manufacture of twenty-millimeter shell booster parts. Credit: Library of Congress.

Conversion. Hosiery factory. These husky workers used to manufacture triple-sheer hosiery for Miss America. Today they're working for their Uncle Sam servicing mesh gears on a loom now producing mosquito netting for the Army and Navy. Van Raalte Company. Credit: Library of Congress.

Caping and inspecting tubing: two women are shown caping and inspecting tubing which goes into the manufacture of the "Vengeance" dive bomber made at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. (reference)

Even manufacture no longer sufficed. (reference)

Plant for the manufacture of hydrogen. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The business had always been dull in consequence of the high price of the raw material, which reacted upon the manufacture.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

It codes for an enzyme important in the brain's manufacture of dopamine. (references)

It was cheap to manufacture, easy to give, and didn’t cause problems for most people. (references)

The prostate is a small gland about the size of a walnut, which helps to manufacture semen. (references)

Business

Guatemala does not manufacture these products. (references)

Pakistan does not locally manufacture presentation equipment. (references)

Saudi Arabia does not manufacture medical laboratory instruments. (references)

Economic History

Mexico

Several companies manufacture tractors in Mexico. (references)

India

Non-small scale units can also manufacture items reserved for the small-scale sector. (references)

West Bank

Other opportunities include joint ventures to manufacture snack foods, cookies, and sauces. (references)

Human Rights

Lithuania

They manufacture furniture, shoes, and electric appliances (mostly for the domestic market). (references)

Political Economy

Mongolia

Garment manufacture and minerals, especially copper, constitute the bulk of export earnings. (references)

Mali

There is a very small industrial sector, largely based on the manufacture of textiles, beverages, and processed food products. (references)

Trade

Poland

Packaging should clearly indicate the country of manufacture. (references)

Norway

The CE label should incorporate name/address of manufacture, Ser. (references)

Kenya

This document requires rigid controls in manufacture, packaging, labeling, and distribution. (references)

Travel

Saudi Arabia

In Saudi Arabia, penalties for the import, manufacture, possession, and consumption of alcohol or illegal drugs are severe. (references)

Worker Rights

Sri Lanka

Children also are involved in the manufacture of coconut fiber products, bricks, fishing, wrapping tobacco, street trading, and farming. (references)

China

Female prisoners clean toilets and also are involved in tailoring, cleaning, or spinning and sorting wool to be used in the manufacture of carpets and sweaters. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "manufacture": aircraft manufacture ♦ cotton manufacture ♦ eyeglass manufacture ♦ final IC manufacture ♦ foreign manufacture ♦ hose manufacture ♦ manufacture by machine ♦ manufacture of dairy products ♦ of home manufacture ♦ serial manufacture ♦ shoe manufacture ♦ state of manufacture ♦ the woollen manufacture. Additional references.

Ending with "manufacture": re-manufacture, semi-manufacture, sugar-manufacture.

Afrikaans

vervaardig (achieve, act, carry out, do, fabricate, make, perform), aanmaak (fabricate, making, manifacture). (various references)

Albanian

prodhoj (bear, deliver, do, elaborate, fabricate, generate, make, mill, produce, yield), prodhim (article, crop, fabrication, generation, harvest, make, making, milling, mintage, output, out-turn, produce, product, production, recovery, runout, turn out, yield), përpunim (development, elaboration, formation, manipulation, operation, processing, recovery, refinement, rehash, treatment), fabrikoj (fabricate, machinate, make up, mill, produce), fabrikim (fabrication, milling, production), artikull i prodhuar. (various references)

Arabic 

‏صنع (dip, fabricate, fabrication, fashion, industrialize, make, nil, output, produce, production, turn out), ‏صناعة (industry, metier, wry), ‏إنتاج (child, composition, flow, fructification, growth, make, output, procreation, produce, product, reproduction). (various references)

Bulgarian 

фабрикувам (fabricate, make), фабрикация (fabrication, make), фабрикат (product, production), направа (frame, make, making), манифактурен (draper's), манифактура (dry goods, manufactory), промишленост (industry), производство (fabrication, make, making, output, production, turnout, yield), произвеждане (fabrication, generation, production, promoting, promotion), произвеждам (afford, bring forth, fabricate, generate, make, produce, promote, put out, queen, raise), изработка (work), изфабрикувам (fabricate, frame up), измислям (coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, devise, dream up, evolve, excogitate, fabricate, fake, feign, figure out, frame up, incubate, invent, think up, trump, weave), изделие (handiwork, job, making, product). (various references)

Catalan

fabricar (fabricate). (various references)

Chinese 

製作 (make), 製 , �"��"� (to produce), 制� (Fabricate, Fabricated, Fabricating, Fabrication). (various references)

Czech

vyrobit (produce), vymyslet si (dream up). (various references)

Danish

fabrikere (fabricate). (various references)

Dutch

vervaardiging (farad, making, manifacture), maken (achieve, act, carry out, cause, compose, create, develop, do, fabricate, fix, get, make, perform, repair, write), fabriceren (fabricate), aanmaken (achieve, act, carry out, do, fabricate, kindle, light, make, perform, prepare), aanmaak (farad, making, manifacture). (various references)

Esperanto

farado (making), fabriki (fabricate). (various references)

Faeroese

framleiða (beget, fabricate, generate). (various references)

Farsi 

مصنوع (Artifact, Made, Ornate), تولیدکردن (Beget, Breed, Generate, Inbreed, Procreate, Produce, Raise, Supply, Turnout), تولید (Efficiency, Genesis, Output, Production, Turnout), ساختن (Build, Compose, Establish, Form, Invent, Make, Mint, Model, Move, Prepare, Upbuild, Weave), ساخت (Composition, Confection, Make, Production, Structure, Workmanship), جعل کردن (Concoct, Counterfeit, Invent, Mint). (various references)

Finnish

valmistus (completion, finishing, preparation). (various references)

French

fabriquer (make, make up), fabrication (making, manufacturing). (various references)

Frisian

oanmeitsjen (farad, making, manifacture), fabrisearje (fabricate). (various references)

German

Herstellung (completion, creation, cutting, establishment, fabrication, farad, make, making, manifacture, manufacturing, production, restoration), herstellen (achieve, act, carry out, complete, do, establish, fabricate, make, makes, perform, produce, restore, to fabricate), verfertigen (compose, draw up, fabricate, produce), fertigen, fabrizieren (concoct, fabricate, get up to, produce, to fabricate). (various references)

Greek 

κατασκευή (construction, make, making, milling, structure), κατασκευάζω (construct, fabricate, make, malt), παραγωγή (derivation, ganeration, output, procreation, production, yield). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעש�" (act, action, conduct, deed, doing, fact, incident, occupation, occurrence, practice, thing), ייצור, ייצר (produce), יצר� ות (productivity), ליצור (create, fashion, form, generate, make, mint), ליצר (make, output, produce), תוצרת (make, produce, product, production), תעשי�" (industry, production), חרושת (craft, industry), �"פיק. (various references)

Hungarian

készítmény (artefact, artifact, concoction, fabrication, make, preparation, product), gyártás (fabrication, making, production), gyárt (fabricate, made, make, produce, to fabricate, to make, to mint, to produce, to turn out), elõállít. (various references)

Indonesian

membuat (contrive, do, establish, make), pengolahan (cultivation, preparation, processing), pembikinan (fabrication), fabrikasi (product). (various references)

Italian

fabbricare (brew, build, construct, constuct, fabricate, make, makes, manufacutre, produce, to produce), fabbricazione (making), confezionare (make, make up, pack, wrap). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

調製 (execution, preparation), 製� 　 (production), 製� (production), 製作 (production), �"��"�　 (production), �"��"� (production), マトリックス力学 (enthusiasm, enthusiast, madeleine, mademoiselle, madonna, Madras, Madras check, Madrid, madrigal, mania, maniac, manicure, manierisme, manifesto, Manila, manipulate, manipulation, manipulator, Manitoba, manners, mannish, mannish look, manual, manual manipulator, manuscript, matrix dynamics, minutia, muddler, mutton, sailor), 作製 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

マニュファクチャー , さくせい (creating, draw up, frame, make, preparing, producing, well drilling, writing), せいぞう (icon, production, sacred image), せいさ�" (banquet, celebrant, confidence in success, Emperor's age, exact calculation, formal dinner, ghastliness, ghostliness, gruesomeness, hydrocyanicacid, liquidation, luridness, production, settlement, squaring of accounts), せいさく (beginning of the month or the year, New Year's Day, policy, political measures, production, the calendar, work), ちょうせい (adjustment, death, execution, government by the imperial court, lengthy military expedition, longevity, passing, preparation, regulation, the Long March, tonal mark, town administration, town organization, tuning). (various references)

Korean 

� �조 (making, manufactured, Manufacturing). (various references)

Manx

jeantys (construction, manufactured goods), jantys (action, agency, instrumentality, make), jannoo (accomplish, accomplishment, act, build, cast, coalesce, commit, committal, compose, conferment, conformation, construct, construction, create, deal, deed, do, effect, execute, fabricate, fashion, fend, fill, follow out, formation, goings on, keep, make, perform, performance, performing, perpetrate, perpetration, persuance, practise, produce, production, render; doing, structure, style, transact, transaction, transactions). (various references)

Papiamen

fabriká (fabricate). (various references)

Pig Latin

anufacturemay.(various references)

Portuguese

manufatura (preparation, production), fabricar (brew, create, fabricate, frame, labor, labour, make, mill, produce, turn out), fabricação (coinage, fabrication, making, manifacture). (various references)

Romanian

produce (afford, arise, bear, bring, bring about, bring forth, cause, create, deliver, engender, fabricate, generate, give, give forth, happen, machine, make, mill, operate, produce, raise, shape, yield), fabrica (coin, concoct, fabricate, forge, make, mint, prepare, process, produce, work). (various references)

Russian 

фабриковать (coin, fake, forge ahead, trump up), выделка (make, milling, quality), обработка (adaptation, conditioning, cultivation, elaboration, manipulation, refinement, tillage, treatment, working), производство (fabrication, make, making, production), производить производство, изготовление (fabrication, in-process, make, making). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

proizvoditi (make, produce), izraditi (fabricate), industrijska prerada, fabrikovati (fabricate), fabrikovanje (fabrication). (various references)

Spanish

fabricar (achieve, act, brew, carry out, do, fabricate, falsify, knock out, make, make up, perform, produce, throw in, turn out), fabricación (fabrication, farad, making, manifacture, manufactory, manufacturing, production), producción (bearing, engineering, farad, making, manifacture, output, produce, product, production, turnout, yield), manufacturar (fabricate, make), confección (confection, farad, make up, making, manifacture, ready made, ready to wear, ready to wear clothes, ready-made suit). (various references)

Swedish

tillverkning (fabrication, make, making, manufacturing, output, production), tillverka (confection, fabricate, make, turn out), fabricera (fabricate, make, produce), förfärdiga (construct, make). (various references)

Turkish

yapım (formation, make up, production, program, programme), uydurmak (accommodate, adapt, adjust, attune, concoct, conform, cook, cook up, dream up, fabricate, fake up, fashion, feign, fib, fit, forge, frame, fudge, gear, improvise, invent, key, make up, mint, quadrate, reconcile, romance, spin, Square, square with, suit, syntonize, tailor, talk through one's hat, tally up, tell a fib, trump up, tune, tune up), imal etmek, imal (confection, processing, production, vintage), üretmek (breed, churn out, fabricate, generate, grow, incubate, procreate, procure, produce, propagate, put out, turn out), üretim (generation, output, outturn, procurement, production, turnout). (various references)

Ukrainian

фабрикувати (coin, concoct, fabricate), фабрикація (fabrication), штампувати (impress, press, punch, rubber stamp), виріб (fabric, product, production, -ware, work), виробництво (fabrication, framing, make, making, manufacturing, production, yielding), виробляти (beget, produce, yield). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự sản xuất công nghiệp, sự chế tạo (making). (various references)

dím. (various references)

banû. (various references)

manus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "manufacture": manufactured, manufacturer, manufacturers, manufactures. (additional references)

Words ending with "manufacture": premanufacture, remanufacture. (additional references)

Words containing "manufacture": premanufactured, premanufactures, remanufactured, remanufacturer, remanufacturers, remanufactures. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Manufacture" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Manifattura, manufact, manufactor, manufactuer, manufactur, manufacturee, manufactury, Manufaktur, maunfacture. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: fumarate.

-4 letters: amateur, arcanum, arcuate, cateran, centaur, centrum, facture, fermata, fraenum, furcate, furnace, manteau, ramenta, trumeau, turfman, turfmen, uncrate.

-5 letters: acetum, acuate, acumen, acuter, amtrac, antrum, arcane, aurate, auteur, autumn, caftan, camera, canter, carafe, carate, carman, carmen, carnet, catena, centra, centum, curate, faucet, faunae, fraena, frenum, furane, future, mantra, mantua, manure, marten, mature.

+1 letter: manufactured, manufacturer, manufactures.

+2 letters: manufacturers, remanufacture.

+3 letters: premanufacture, remanufactured, remanufacturer, remanufactures.

+4 letters: premanufactured, premanufactures, remanufacturers, remanufacturing.

+5 letters: premanufacturing.