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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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... that occurred when the dauphin was married to the Archduchess Marie Antoinette. When she put her foot upon French ground, a tent had been erected, according to custom, where she was to lay aside her clothing and be attired in garments of French manufacture. The walls of the tent were hung with costly Gobelin tapestry, all of which represented scenes of bloodshed. On one side was the massacre of the innocents, on the other the execution of the Maccabees. The archduchess herself was horror-stricken at the omen. On that night, two ...
— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach
... informed, worth about fourteen thousand pounds, besides a large landed estate, and much floating wealth of different descriptions. His establishment is of vast extent, and contains departments for the building of ships and manufacture of all their necessary equipments. This gentleman, until lately, was in the habit of giving a splendid fete once a year to his family and friends, at which was exhibited with modest pride the porter's truck which he drew ...
— A Wanderer in Holland • E. V. Lucas
... account. Burmese kings were perhaps among the many potentates who sent religious embassies to the Emperor Wu-ti about 525 A.D. and the T'ang[145] annals show an acquaintance with Burma. They describe the inhabitants as devout Buddhists, reluctant to take life or even to wear silk, since its manufacture involves the death of the silk worms. There were a hundred monasteries into which the youth entered at the age of seven, leaving at the age of twenty, if they did not intend to become monks. The Chinese writer does not seem to have regarded the religion ...
— Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Charles Eliot
... is the largest in the world, covering thirteen hundred acres. Doctors have said that a liberal use of California olive oil will do much to promote the good health of mankind, and it is thought by many that the manufacture of olive oil will be one of the greatest ...
— History of California • Helen Elliott Bandini
... will soon wear a silk gown of her own make. Such noble industry ought to be written in letters of gold. May the ladies profit by the example—and may it soon be esteemed disreputable, by both ladies and gentlemen, to wear any thick silk but of our own manufacture. ...
— The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England • Various


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