单词 | manufactured |
释义 | manufacturedadj. 1. a. Of an article, goods, etc.: produced from raw material, esp. for sale or trade. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [adjective] > manufactured or produced > from raw material manufactured1675 1675 R. Vaughan Disc. Coin & Coinage xv. 163 He would carry both Gold and Silk into Italy, and imploy them in manufactured Silks. 1680 W. Love in Deb. Parl. (1681) 68 And it cannot be expected, that the Indians should grow weary, of exchanging their Manufactured Goods for our Gold and Silver. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. viii. 276 A trading and manufacturing country..naturally purchases with a small part of its manufactured produce a great part of the rude produce of other countries. View more context for this quotation 1825 D. Douglas Jrnl. 19 Aug. (1914) 141 I offered him 2 ozs. of manufactured tobacco. 1885 Athenæum 17 Oct. 500/2 [The] age..brings manufactured articles to every man's door. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 724/1 Champagne..must be regarded in the light of a manufactured article rather than as a natural product. 1988 Truck Dec. 91/3 Longs could, of course, take a standard four-wheel Freighter to an axle conversion company, but Chris Long insists on buying a totally manufactured product. b. Chiefly depreciative. Of a literary work, a speech, etc.: produced in a mechanical or formulaic way, with little or no creativity, imagination, or originality. ΚΠ 1766 T. Leland Let. 9 Jan. in Earl Fitzwilliam & R. Bourke Corr. Edmund Burke (1844) I. 95 You will not, I am certain, build your reputation there, upon a single, studied, manufactured piece of eloquence. 1797 M. Robinson Walsingham III. 229 I detest those mawkish, lovesick animals, who move..through the slender pages of manufactured volumes, produced by the grinding brains of illiterate matrons. 1855 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 77 563/2 We are never contented with manufactured stories. If they do not grow with a sweet progression of nature..we cannot take such productions into our heart. 1999 Poetry Rev. Autumn 58/2 Hardy's sheer technical facility..may prefigure the millions of manufactured poems this century whose ‘percentage of felt experience’..is extremely low. 2. Of a story, statement, etc.: fraudulently invented or produced; deliberately fabricated, false.In quot. 1705 with allusion to sense 1a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [adjective] feignedc1374 wronga1375 forged14.. falsesome1533 compound1574 flim-flam1577 coined1582 minted1598 fabled1606 commentitial1611 inventive1612 commentitious1615 fictiousa1644 fictitious1660 manufactured1705 commentative1716 made-up1806 inventeda1831 concocted1840 accrete1846 fictive1855 mythical1870 1705 R. Blackmore Eliza vi. 175 The bless'd Adventures of the Burse of Rome, Carry Religion out, but Treasure home... Abundant Choice Of manufactor'd Saints they send abroad, But homeward bound, they Gold and Silver load. 1866 Totnes Election Committee, Minutes Evid. (1867) 77 They were manufactured votes. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It lxii. 449 The enemy could not keep from betraying some little spark of indignation at his manufactured history. 1903 Daily Chron. 24 Feb. 5/5 A more manufactured and baseless claim was never set up. 1975 N. Luard Robespierre Serial iv. 15 A manufactured threat to his life which we allow them to discover. 3. Of a gesture, occurrence, etc.: caused by or resulting from contrivance; artificial; not natural or spontaneous. ΚΠ 1850 String of Pearls 342 Is he not a gentleman in the true acceptation of the term? Not a manufactured gentleman, but one of nature's gentlemen. 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xxi. 169 He..got a fine round of applause when he made his manufactured bow and retired. 1985 Ann. Rev. Sociol. 11 97 Several of the studies [of news media] emphasize that news is a manufactured version of reality. 1998 Rec. Collector Apr. 133/3 The album also includes two new songs—their celebration of manufactured pop acts. Compounds manufactured home n. U.S. a trailer or mobile home used as a permanent residence. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle used as living accommodation van1829 house wagon1833 living wagon1851 wagon1851 motor-van1898 motor caravan1909 van1922 trailer caravan1930 trailer1931 caravanette1934 mobile home1934 travel trailer1936 trailer home1940 static caravan1947 recreational vehicle1949 van1952 trailer house1954 caravette1958 camper1960 pickup camper1960 motor home1961 caravan1962 cab-over1964 RV1967 manufactured home1976 micro-mini1989 1976 Wall St. Jrnl. 28 June 10/2 Tidwell Industries Inc. said its motor vehicle contract carrier subsidiary, Tidwell Motor Carriers Inc., has received temporary authority from the Interstate Commerce Commission to transport manufactured homes in interstate commerce. 1992 N.Y. Times 14 Sept. d1/2 That demand for mobile homes, also called manufactured homes, has already started affecting prices, industry officials say. manufactured housing n. U.S. accommodation in trailers or mobile homes. ΚΠ 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 22 May 8/3 Even the terminology is changing. Makers now talk of ‘manufactured housing’. 1993 Mother Jones Jan. 64/2 There is in fact a whole semantic movement afoot to transform trailer courts into manufactured-housing communities, single-wides into single-section homes, landlords into owners. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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