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Manufacturing vs Factory - What's the difference?

manufacturing | factory |

As nouns the difference between manufacturing and factory

is that manufacturing is the action of the verb to manufacture while factory is a trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.

As an adjective manufacturing

is used in manufacturing.

As a verb manufacturing

is present participle of lang=en.

manufacturing

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The action of the verb to manufacture .
  • The transformation of raw materials into finished products, usually on a large scale.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Used in manufacturing.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 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.}}

    Verb

    (head)
  • 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