Factory vs Brickyard - What's the difference?
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(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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, title= * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, 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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A factory where bricks are produced or distributed
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 3, author=Somini Sengupta, title=In a New India, an Old Industry Buoys Peasants, work=New York Times
, passage=Since Vanita was a child, the family has roamed the country in search of work — in construction and road-building, and finally, here to this brickyard . }}
As nouns the difference between factory and brickyard
is that factory is (obsolete) a trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country while brickyard is a factory where bricks are produced or distributed.factory
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(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.
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* manufactoryDerived terms
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