Factory vs Plane - 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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, 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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Of a surface: flat or level.
A level or flat surface.
(geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
A level of existence or development. (eg'', ''astral plane )
A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc.
(computing, Unicode) Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points.
(anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
To smooth (wood) with a plane.
An airplane; an aeroplane.
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, title= (nautical) To move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water.
To glide or soar.
(senseid)(countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus .
(Northern UK) A sycamore.
As nouns the difference between factory and plane
is that factory is (obsolete) a trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country while plane is (label) the thing, the point, the interesting thing, the main interest in something, unusualness, speciality.As an adverb plane is
(label) particularly, especially, certainly.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
* factory resetExternal links
* *plane
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . The word was introduced in the seventeenth century to distinguish the geometrical senses from the other senses of plain.Adjective
(er)Noun
(en noun)Hyponyms
* (mathematics) real plane, complex plane * (anatomy) coronal plane, frontal plane, sagittal plane, transverse planeDerived terms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl), fromSee also
* rhykenologistVerb
(plan)Etymology 3
Abbreviated from aeroplane .Noun
(en noun)Solar-powered travel, passage=The plane is travelling impossibly slowly – 30km an hour – when it gently noses up and leaves the ground. With air beneath them, the rangy wings seem to gain strength; the fuselage that on the ground seemed flimsy becomes elegant, like a crane vaunting in flight. It seems not to fly, though, so much as float.}}
