| 单词 | factory |
| 释义 | factory (once / 201 pages) n A factory is a big building in which products are made, like Willie Wonka's fictional Chocolate Factory, which was famous for producing (among other sweets and treats) the one-of-a-kind Everlasting Gobstopper. Early relatives of the word factory were in use as far back as the 1500s, long before the Industrial Revolution made the modern idea of a factory a reality. Of course, a big building with many different types of machinery inside it isn't the only definition of a factory. A successful pop group that scores several number one songs in a row could be called "a hit factory." WORD FAMILYfactory: factories USAGE EXAMPLESMeanwhile, overall spending on building new factories or upgrading aging equipment languished. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) On Sunday, 25 cities in China issued “red alerts” for smog, which triggers orders to close factories, schools and construction sites. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) She devoted herself to her job at the Brinkmann cigarette factory. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) n a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing Syn|Hypo|Hyper manufactory, manufacturing plant, mill assembly plant a factory where manufactured parts are assembled into a finished product auto factory, automobile factory, car factorya factory where automobiles are manufactured cannerya factory where food is canned chemical plantan industrial plant where chemicals are produced foundry, metalworksfactory where metal castings are produced lumbermill, sawmilla mill for dressing logs and lumber paper milla mill where paper is manufactured stamp mill, stamping milla mill in which ore is crushed with stamps steel factory, steel mill, steel plant, steelworksa factory where steel is made sweatshopfactory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry textile milla factory for making textiles armory, armoury, arsenala place where arms are manufactured battery, stamp batterya series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores bell foundrya foundry where bells are cast cotton milla textile mill for making cotton textiles iron foundrya foundry where cast iron is produced maquiladoraan assembly plant in Mexico (near the United States border); parts are shipped into Mexico and the finished product is shipped back across the border quartz battery, quartz milla stamp mill for stamping quartz rolling millsteel mill where metal is rolled into sheets and bars industrial plant, plant, works buildings for carrying on industrial labor |
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