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MANUFACTURE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The organized action of making of goods and services for sale

Example:

American industry is making increased use of computers to control production

Synonyms:

industry; manufacture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("manufacture" is a kind of...):

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

Domain member category:

point system (a system of evaluation based on awarding points according to rules)

industry (the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise)

privatise; privatize (change from governmental to private control or ownership)

rat (employ scabs or strike breakers in)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manufacture"):

cottage industry (small-scale industry that can be carried on at home by family members using their own equipment)

production ((economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale)

industrial enterprise; industrialisation; industrialization (the development of industry on an extensive scale)

Derivation:

manufacture (put together out of artificial or natural components or parts)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of making something (a product) from raw materials

Example:

manufacturing is vital to Great Britain

Synonyms:

fabrication; manufacture; manufacturing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("manufacture" is a kind of...):

creating from raw materials (the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manufacture"):

formation; shaping (the act of fabricating something in a particular shape)

newspeak (deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public)

prefabrication (the manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site)

Derivation:

manufacture (put together out of artificial or natural components or parts)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Concoct something artificial or untrue

Synonyms:

cook up; fabricate; invent; make up; manufacture

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "manufacture" is one way to...):

concoct; dream up; hatch; think of; think up (devise or invent)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "manufacture"):

mythologise; mythologize (construct a myth)

confabulate (unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory)

concoct; trump up (invent)

spin (make up a story)

vamp; vamp up (make up)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put together out of artificial or natural components or parts

Example:

He manufactured a popular cereal

Synonyms:

construct; fabricate; manufacture

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "manufacture" is one way to...):

make (make by shaping or bringing together constituents)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "manufacture"):

mass-produce (produce on a large scale)

raft (make into a raft)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

manufacture (the organized action of making of goods and services for sale)

manufacture (the act of making something (a product) from raw materials)

manufacturer (a business engaged in manufacturing some product)

manufacturer (someone who manufactures something)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Create or produce in a mechanical way

Example:

This novelist has been manufacturing his books following his initial success

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "manufacture" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Produce naturally

Example:

this gland manufactures a specific substance only

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "manufacture" is one way to...):

bring forth; produce (bring forth or yield)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

Any process that harvests blood or blood products for clinical or manufacturing purposes.

(Blood Product Collection, NCI Thesaurus)

An I 131 radioiodinated synthetic analogue of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine, manufactured with a proprietary process, with radioisotopic and potential antineoplastic activities.

(Cold Contaminant-free Iobenguane I-131, NCI Thesaurus)

Benzidine has been widely used for the detection of blood and as a reagent in the manufacture of dyes.

(Benzidine, NCI Thesaurus)

Its derivatives are used as UV stabilizers in plastic and to manufacture antiseptics and antimicrobial agents.

(Benzotrichloride, NCI Thesaurus)

For chemicals with which you are unfamiliar, consult the Merck Index to determine whether the chemical is used in manufacturing, agriculture, or other occupational setting.

(Occupational Carcinogenesis, NCI Thesaurus)

The cells then manufacture functional protein.

(Gene Therapy Used to Treat Hemophilia, NIH)

A design that is expected to be used to manufacture physical arrays.

(Physical Array Design, NCI Thesaurus)

Nobody manufactured their opinions for them; they were all rebels of one variety or another, and their lips were strangers to platitudes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Phytol is commonly used as a precursor for the manufacture of synthetic forms of vitamin E and vitamin K1.

(Phytol, NCI Thesaurus)

Performance of the packaging part of the manufacturing process.

(Packing, NCI Thesaurus)