Industrial vs Floorplate - What's the difference?
industrial | floorplate |
Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.
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, title= Produced by such industry.
Used by such industry.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black)
, title=Internal Combustion, chapter=2 Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade.
Massive in scale or quantity.
Employed as manpower by such industry.
(of a society or country) Having many industries; industrialized.
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, title= (music) Belonging or pertaining to the genre of industrial music.
An employee in industry
(business) An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.
(finance) A bond or stock issued by such company
industrial music
A (usually metal) plate used as industrial flooring.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 25, author=Alison Gregor, title=Serving Small Tenants With Offices Cut Down to Size, work=New York Times
, passage=In that new building, which has large 40,000-square-foot floorplates , some of the large tenants may want to be assured of an option to grow. }}
(biology) A specialized glial structure integral to the developing nervous system of vertebrate organisms.
As nouns the difference between industrial and floorplate
is that industrial is an employee in industry while floorplate is a (usually metal) plate used as industrial flooring.As an adjective industrial
is of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.industrial
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Adjective
(en adjective)Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
citation, passage=More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.}}
Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}
Antonyms
* nonindustrial * unindustrialDerived terms
* industrialism * industrialize * industrially * industrialness * industrial arts * industrial espionage * industrial production * industrial scale * industrial school * industrial strength * industrial tribunal * industrial unionNoun
(en noun)- I wish they'd play more industrial in this club.
Derived terms
* Dow Jones Industrial Averagefloorplate
English
Alternative forms
* floor plateNoun
(en noun)citation
