Factory vs Antifactory - What's the difference?
factory | antifactory |
(obsolete) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
The position or state of being a factor.
A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
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, chapter=7 A device which produces or manufactures something.
(programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
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Opposing a factory or factories in general.
* 1985 , Steven Hahn, Jonathan Prude, The countryside in the age of capitalist transformation (page 92)
As a noun factory
is (obsolete) a trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.As an adjective antifactory is
opposing a factory or factories in general.factory
English
Noun
(factories)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories , it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}
citation, passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.}}
- The task factory is the object that is responsible for creating instances of those tasks dynamically.
Synonyms
* manufactoryDerived terms
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Such ignorance becomes the more — and more sadly — ironic when we realize that mill workers commonly grounded their antifactory stance in the same web of republican values as did many townspeople.