Industrial vs Masscult - What's the difference?
industrial | masscult |
Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.
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, title= Produced by such industry.
Used by such industry.
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, 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
The modern industrial equivalent of culture, mass-produced and anonymously consumed, without specialization or connoisseurship.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 29, author=The New York Times, title=Jazz Listings, work=New York Times
, passage=? THE BAD PLUS (Tomorrow) With its fifth studio album, “Prog” (Do the Math), this trio ventures further along a distinctive and adventurous path; the bassist Reid Anderson, the pianist Ethan Iverson and the drummer David King sound as committed as ever, and their alchemy of masscult allusions and highbrow inventions still has the power to overwhelm. }}
As nouns the difference between industrial and masscult
is that industrial is an employee in industry while masscult is the modern industrial equivalent of culture, mass-produced and anonymously consumed, without specialization or connoisseurship.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 Averagemasscult
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