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Factory vs Trade - What's the difference?

factory | trade |

As a noun factory

is (obsolete) a trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.

As a verb trade is

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factory

English

Noun

(factories)
  • (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.
  • * , chapter=7
  • , title= 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.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=7 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.}}
  • A device which produces or manufactures something.
  • (programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
  • * 2010 , Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi, William Bartholomew, Inside the Microsoft Build Engine
  • The task factory is the object that is responsible for creating instances of those tasks dynamically.

    Synonyms

    * manufactory

    Derived terms

    * factory reset

    trade

    English

    (wikipedia trade)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
  • (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.
  • I did no trades with them once the rumors started.
  • (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
  • * 1989 , (Bruce Pandolfini), Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps , ISBN 0671656902, "Glossary" section, page 225 [http://books.google.com/books?id=pocVITTr8tMC&pg=PA225&dq=trade]:
  • EXCHANGE — A trade or swap of no material profit to either side.
  • * 2009 , Elliott Kalb and Mark Weinstein, The 30 Greatest Sports Conspiracy Theories of All Time , ISBN 9781602396784, page 60 [http://books.google.com/books?id=nQd8MHuaXysC&pg=PA60&dq=trade]:
  • When Golden State matched the Knicks' offer sheet, the Warriors and Knicks worked out a trade that sent King to New York for Richardson.
  • (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
  • The skilled trades were the first to organize modern labor unions.
  • (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
  • It is not a retail showroom. It is only for the trade .
  • (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
  • He learned his trade as an apprentice.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2, url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL4103950W , passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries.  By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}
  • (uncountable, UK) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
  • Even before noon there was considerable trade .
  • (mostly, in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
  • They rode the trades going west.
  • * James Horsburgh
  • the north-east trade
  • (only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
  • Rumors about layoffs are all over the trades .
  • (uncountable, LGBT, slang) A brief sexual encounter.
  • Josh picked up some trade last night.
  • (obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of any occupation.
  • * Dryden
  • the house and household goods, his trade of war
  • (mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
  • (obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
  • * Surrey
  • A postern with a blind wicket there was, / A common trade to pass through Priam's house.
  • * Spenser
  • Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade .
  • * Shakespeare
  • Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway, / Some way of common trade , where subjects' feet / May hourly trample on their sovereign's head.
  • (obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.
  • * Udall
  • the right trade of religion
  • * Spenser
  • There those five sisters had continual trade .
  • * Massinger
  • Long did I love this lady, / Long was my travel, long my trade to win her.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Thy sin's not accidental but a trade .

    Derived terms

    * antitrade/anti-trade * balance of trade * basket trade * block trade * bullet trade * carbon trade * carriage trade * carry trade * carousel trade * cash and carry trade * coasting trade * countertrade * cross-trade * day trade * fair trade * free trade * horse trade * invisible trade * jack of all trades * motor trade * off-trade * on-trade * out trade * paper trade * rag trade * restraint of trade * rough trade * reverse of trade * slave trade * spot trade * stock-in-trade * terms of trade * trade barrier * trade card * trade deficit * trade dispute * trade fair * trade magazine * trade mark/trademark * trade name * trade newspaper * trade-off * trade route * trade secret * trade show * trade standard * trade surplus * trade term * trade union * trade war * trade wind * trader * tradesman * tradesperson * uptick trade * visible trade

    Synonyms

    * (the commercial exchange of goods and services) commerce * (the collective people who perform a particular kind of skilled work) business * (the skilled practice of a practical occupation) craft * (An instance of buying and selling) deal, barter * (the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers) patronage

    Verb

    (trad)
  • To engage in trade
  • This company trades in precious metal.
  • * Arbuthnot
  • a free port, where nations resorted with their goods and traded
  • To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
  • To give (something) in exchange for.
  • Will you trade your precious watch for my earring?
  • To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
  • To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
  • * Shakespeare
  • How did you dare to trade and traffic with Macbeth?

    Derived terms

    * insider trading * trade in * tradable

    Synonyms

    * (engage in the trade of) deal * (be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions) * (give something in exchange for) exchange, swap, switch * (do business) do business, make a deal

    See also

    * buy * sell

    Anagrams

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