manufacture

[man-yuh-fak-cher]

noun

the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.

the making or producing of anything; generation: the manufacture of body cells.

the thing or material manufactured; product: Plastic is an important manufacture.

verb (used with object), man·u·fac·tured, man·u·fac·tur·ing.

to make or produce by hand or machinery, especially on a large scale.

to work up (material) into form for use: to manufacture cotton.

to invent fictitiously; fabricate; concoct: to manufacture an account of the incident.

to produce in a mechanical way without inspiration or originality: to manufacture a daily quota of poetry.

Origin of manufacture

1560–70; obsolete manufact (see manufactory) + -ure

Related formsman·u·fac·tur·a·ble, adjectiveman·u·fac·tur·al, adjectivenon·man·u·fac·ture, nounnon·man·u·fac·tured, adjectivenon·man·u·fac·tur·ing, nounpre·man·u·fac·ture, verb (used with object), pre·man·u·fac·tured, pre·man·u·fac·tur·ing.sem·i·man·u·fac·tured, adjectivesem·i·man·u·fac·tur·ing, nounun·man·u·fac·tur·a·ble, adjectiveun·man·u·fac·tured, adjectivewell-man·u·fac·tured, adjective

Synonyms for manufacture

4. build.

Synonym study

4. Manufacture, assemble, fabricate apply to processes in industry. Manufacture, originally to make by hand, now means to make by machine or by industrial process: to manufacture rubber tires. To assemble is to fit together the manufactured parts of something mechanical: to assemble an automobile. To fabricate is to construct or build by fitting standardized parts together: to fabricate houses. See also make¹.

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British Dictionary definitions for manufacturable

manufacture

verb

to process or make (a product) from a raw material, esp as a large-scale operation using machinery

(tr) to invent or concoctto manufacture an excuse

noun

the production of goods, esp by industrial processes

a manufactured product

the creation or production of anything

Derived Formsmanufacturable, adjectivemanufacturing, noun, adjective

Word Origin for manufacture

C16: from obsolete manufact hand-made, from Late Latin manūfactus, from Latin manus hand + facere to make

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Word Origin and History for manufacturable

manufacture

1680s, from manufacture (n.). Related: Manufactured; manufacturing; manufacturable.

manufacture

1560s, "something made by hand," from Middle French manufacture, from Medieval Latin *manufactura (source of Italian manifattura, Spanish manufactura), from Latin manu, ablative of manus "hand" (see manual (adj.)) + factura "a working," from past participle stem of facere "to perform" (see factitious). Sense of "process of manufacturing" first recorded c.1600. Related: Manufactures.