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INDUSTRIAL PLANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Buildings for carrying on industrial labor
Example:
they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles
Synonyms:
industrial plant; plant; works
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("industrial plant" is a kind of...):
building complex; complex (a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures)
Domain member category:
gas system (facility (plant and equipment) for providing natural-gas service)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "industrial plant"):
bottling plant (a plant where beverages are put into bottles with caps)
brewery (a plant where beer is brewed by fermentation)
distillery; still (a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation)
factory; manufactory; manufacturing plant; mill (a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing)
mint (a plant where money is coined by authority of the government)
packing plant; packinghouse (a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products)
recycling plant (a plant for reprocessing used or abandoned materials)
refinery (an industrial plant for purifying a crude substance)
saltworks (a plant where salt is produced commercially)
disposal plant; sewage disposal plant (a plant for disposing of sewage)
smelter; smeltery (an industrial plant for smelting)
wine maker; winery (an establishment where wine is made)
