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MANUFACTURING PLANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
Synonyms:
factory; manufactory; manufacturing plant; mill
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("manufacturing plant" is a kind of...):
industrial plant; plant; works (buildings for carrying on industrial labor)
Meronyms (parts of "manufacturing plant"):
assembly line; line; production line (mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it)
shop floor (workplace consisting of the part of a factory housing the machines)
Domain member category:
conveyer; conveyer belt; conveyor; conveyor belt; transporter (a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory))
closed-circuit television (a television system that is not used for broadcasting but is connected by cables to designated monitors (as in a factory or theater))
uptime (a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is functioning and available for use)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manufacturing plant"):
assembly plant (a factory where manufactured parts are assembled into a finished product)
auto factory; automobile factory; car factory (a factory where automobiles are manufactured)
cannery (a factory where food is canned)
chemical plant (an industrial plant where chemicals are produced)
foundry; metalworks (factory where metal castings are produced)
lumbermill; sawmill (a mill for dressing logs and lumber)
paper mill (a mill where paper is manufactured)
stamp mill; stamping mill (a mill in which ore is crushed with stamps)
steel factory; steel mill; steel plant; steelworks (a factory where steel is made)
sweatshop (factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry)
textile mill (a factory for making textiles)
