Factory : nf (word from latin workshopBy wine, and kitchen “manufacture, forge”).
The word “factory” has several meanings:
1. Establishment of large industry intended for the manufacturing de products, to the transformation of raw materials and semi-finished products into finished products, or the production ofEnergy, and employing machines that use a significant source of energy (synonyms: establishment, factory, industry, manufacture, region: mill).
The workshops, the production units of a factory.
Go to the factory.
Entry, exit from the factory.
Working in a factory, in a factory.
Robot factory.
The factories of a company, of a group.
Metallurgical plants: steelworks, foundries, forges.
Armaments factory.
Automobile factory.
Textile factories (spinning, weaving).
Factories agrifood (cannery, distilleries, brasserie).
By apposition: Factory ship, where the sea products.
Plants performing refining (refining).
Power generating plants (central).
Factory at gas (figuratively): unnecessarily complicated system. Its program is illegible, it is a factory gas.
Shop factory, disposing of surplus production at a reduced price (factory-center, Anglicism).
Personalized stores factory.
Sell, buy a turnkey plant.
By metonymy: The staff of a factory. The factory is on strike.
2. Industry which works, produces, in factories; big industry.
The factory worker.
“The New Factory” (review).
3. Familiar and local sense which, by its dimensions, its numerous personnel and the importance of its output, evokes a factory.
This office, this restaurant is a real factory.
As a joke: It's a kid factory in your house.
Organization whose essential functions are carried out on a scale comparable to that of industry.
Hollywood, the dream factory.