Factory vs Factorylike - What's the difference?
factory | factorylike |
(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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Resembling a factory in any of various respects
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, passage=As China modernizes at breakneck speed, emphasizing the factorylike production of contemporary artists, the tradition of Shaanxi shadow theater is on the wane. }}
As a noun factory
is (obsolete) a trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.As an adjective factorylike is
resembling a factory in any of various respects.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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