Слово англійською: factory
Іменник
Переклад factory українською: заво́д, збройови́й заво́д, автозаво́д
Детальний опис
factory
noun, /ˈfæktəri/ /ˈfæktri/, /ˈfæktəri/
(plural factories)
- a building or group of buildings where goods are made, mainly by machine
- a car factory
- The factory closed down ten years ago.
- in/at a factory She works in the local textile factory.
- factory workers
Synonyms factoryfactoryplant ▪ mill ▪ works ▪ yard ▪ workshop ▪ foundryThese are all words for buildings or places where things are made or where industrial processes take place.factory a building or group of buildings where goods are made, mainly by machine:- a chocolate/cigarette/clothing factory
plant a factory or place where power is produced or an industrial process takes place:- a nuclear power plant
- a manufacturing plant
mill a factory that produces a particular type of material:- a cotton/paper/textile/woollen mill
works (often in compounds) a place where things are made or an industrial process takes place:- a brickworks
- a steelworks
- Raw materials were carried to the works by barge.
yard (usually in compounds) an area of land used for building something:workshop a room or building in which things are made or repaired using hand tools or machinery (usually individual items or small numbers of items):foundry a factory where metal or glass is melted and made into different shapes or objects:Patterns- a car/chemical/munitions factory/plant
- an engineering plant/works
- to manage/run a factory/plant/mill/works/yard/workshop/foundry
- to work in/at a factory/plant/mill/yard/workshop/foundry
- factory/mill/foundry owners/managers/workers
Wordfinder- assembly line
- capacity
- factory
- foreman
- plant
- process
- production
- shift
- shop floor
- workforce
- a person or organization that continuously produces a large quantity of a particular thing
- This record label has become a real hit factory (= one that produces a lot of successful songs).
- (disapproving) These universities are becoming colourless degree factories, with no sense of what higher learning is really about.
see also troll factory Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally referring to a place where traders did business in a foreign country): via Portuguese feitoria. The current sense is based on late Latin factorium, literally ‘oil press’.