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Works vs Foundry - What's the difference?

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Works is a related term of foundry.


As nouns the difference between works and foundry

is that works is while foundry is a facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry , etc.

As a verb works

is (work).

works

English

(wikipedia works)

Noun

(head)
  • .
  • (plurale tantum) A mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens.
  • (plurale tantum) A factory or factories, or similar collection(s) of buildings.
  • *, chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
  • Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.
  • Drastic treatment; abuse; the axe (dismissal).
  • (plurale tantum) Acts associated with moral or religious standing.

    • Derived terms

    * brassworks * bronzeworks * clayworks * copperworks * freezing works * good works * ironworks * metalworks * skunkworks * steelworks * waterworks

    Verb

    (head)
  • (work)

    • See also

    * in the works * the whole nine yards * the whole shebang

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    foundry

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia foundry) (foundries)
  • A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry , etc.
  • The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.

    • Related terms

    * type foundry