| 单词 | manufacturing |
| 释义 | manufacturing (once / 442 pages) n Use the noun manufacturing when you talk about the process of building or assembling something, especially in a factory. Manufacturing means "making" or "building," but it's most often used to refer to an automated process of putting something together from parts. For example, your uncle might work in automobile manufacturing — in other words, at a car factory. The noun manufacturing comes from the verb manufacture, or "make," which has a Middle French root, from the Latin manu, "hand," and factura, "a working." WORD FAMILYmanufacture: manufactured, manufacturer, manufactures, manufacturing+/manufacturer: manufacturers USAGE EXAMPLESSome manufacturing companies are required to cut production and heavily polluting vehicles are banned from the roads. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) When authorities issue red alerts, some manufacturing companies are required to cut production and heavily polluting vehicles are banned from the roads. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) But the country is now facing the limits of that model amid slowing growth, toxic pollution and the shift of manufacturing work to less-developed nations. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) n the act of making something (a product) from raw materials Syn|Hypo|Hyper fabrication, manufacture formation, shaping the act of fabricating something in a particular shape newspeakdeliberately ambiguous and contradictory language use to mislead and manipulate the public prefabricationthe manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site filingthe act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object) forgingshaping metal by heating and hammering metalwork, metalworkingthe activity of making things out of metal in a skillful manner granulationthe act of forming something into granules or grains grooving, riflingthe cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm turningthe activity of shaping something on a lathe creating from raw materials the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it |
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