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In transitive terms the difference between hew and manufacture

is that hew is to shape; to form while manufacture is to work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use.

hew

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hewen, from (etyl) . See also (l).

Verb

  • To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Hew them to pieces; hack their bones asunder.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
    • Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.
  • To shape; to form.
    • to hew out a sepulchre
  • * Bible, Is. li. 1
    • Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn .
  • * Alexander Pope
    • rather polishing old works than hewing out new
  • (US) To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with (to).
  • * 1905 , Albert Osborn, : A Biography , ] Jennings & Graham, [http://books.google.com/books?id=I3UEAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA428&dq=hewed page 428,
    • Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line.
  • * 1998 , and Lawrence Davidson, Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines , Collectors Press, Inc., ISBN 1-888054-12-3, page 103,
    • Inside the stories usually hewed to a consistent formula: no matter how outlandish and weird the circumstances, in the end everything had to have a natural, if not plausible, ending—frequently, though not always, involving a mad scientist.
  • * 2008 , , Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik , Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-12990-8, page 28,
    • Faculty members and students alike were buzzing with the fashionable nostrums that dominated U.S. education discourse in the late sixties,
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 27 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid on the Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Hewing to the old comedy convention of beginning a speech by randomly referencing something in eyesight, Homer begins his talk about the birds and the bees by saying that women are like refrigerators: they’re all about six feet tall and weigh three hundred pounds and make ice cubes. }}
  • *{{quote-web
    • , date =2013-10-02 , first =Alex , last =Pappademas , title =Leuqes! LEUQES! LEUQES!'' – The ''Shining sequel and what it says about Stephen King , site =Grantland.com , url =http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9751517/the-shining-sequel-career-stephen-king , accessdate = 2013-10-16 }}
  • *:King recovered the rights on the condition that he'd stop publicly disparaging Kubrick's version. "For a long time I hewed that line," he told CBS News in June. "And then Mr. Kubrick died. So now I figured, what the hell. I've gone back to saying mean things about it."
    • Derived terms
    * hewer * rough-hew

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) hue; colour
    • (Chaucer)
  • (obsolete) shape; form
    • (Spenser)
  • Destruction by cutting down.
  • * Spenser
    • Of whom he makes such havoc and such hew .
    (Webster 1913) English irregular verbs

    manufacture

    English

    (wikipedia manufacture)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2009 , date=April 3 , author=Olivia Feld , title=New gum could mean sticky end for mess , work= citation , page= , passage=After years of exporting the gum base to be used as an ingredient in the manufacture of regular chewing gum, the cooperative recently decided to start making its own gum using only chicle gum base and natural flavorings and sweeteners}}
  • Anything made, formed or produced; product.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • The roads are crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures .
  • (figuratively) The process of such production; generation, creation.
  • * 1919 , :
    • Our lawgivers take special pride in the ever active manufacture of new bills and laws.

    Derived terms

    * manufactural * manufacture of consent

    Related terms

    * manufact * manufactory

    Verb

    (manufactur)
  • To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2008 , date=July 23 , author=Michael Brooks , title=Comment: It's time for the Vatican to accept IVF , work= citation , page= , passage=Scientists are learning how to manufacture sperm and egg cells from other types of cell; others are developing "alternative" wombs}}
  • To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use.
    • to manufacture wool into blankets
  • (derogatory) To fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2000 , date=December 10 , author=Daniel Zalewski , title=The Misinformation Age , work= citation , page= , passage=Digital technology has made it so easy to manufacture lies that it's become difficult to separate fact from fiction.}}

    Related terms

    * manufacturer

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