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factory

noun
/ˈfæk.tə.ɹi/UK/ˈfæk.tɚ.i/US

Etymology

Probably from factor + -y, although in noun sense 1 (“a place where manufacturing takes place”) apparently influenced strongly by association with Classical Latin fact-, the past participial stem of faciō (“to make”); compare manufactory and Latin factōrium (“an oil press”). In noun sense 8 (“a trading establishment”), originally after Portuguese feitoria. In noun sense 9 (“an invoice or inventory”), probably after obsolete Dutch facture (“bill”); see facture. Compare Dutch factorij, Middle French factorie, Spanish factoría.

  1. derived from facture — “bill”
  2. derived from feitoria

Definitions

  1. A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

    • History has shown that, even without cheap labor, factories run perfectly well.

  2. A police station.

    • The guys all knew each other and we were having a jolly old chinwag as we marched them out of the house in front of their stunned neighbours and into a van we had called to take them all to the Factory (police station).

  3. A device or process that produces or manufactures something.

    • Radio became a star factory for journalists.
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. A factory farm.

      • chicken factory; pig factory

    2. In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.

      • The task factory […] is the object that is responsible for creating instances of those tasks dynamically.

    3. The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer.

      • factory settings; factory defaults; a factory reset

    4. The position or state of being a factor.

    5. A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.

      • We had here his curate, Mr. Furley, who had been nine years chaplain to the English factory at St. Petersburg […] .

    6. An invoice or inventory.

      • What Sterl. is Mr. Lawſon to charge himſelf with, on Account of this Factory, […]
      • A of Amſterdam is debtor to B of Briſtol, for mercery wares as per factory, 418 l. 2 s. 6 d.; […]

    7. Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in

      Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.

      • See how there's another layer of metal there? That's not factory.

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Derived

abstract factory class, abstract factory pattern, antifactory, arms factory, autofactory, baby factory, beauty factory, B-factory, biofactory, bum factory, cat factory, dark factory, daylight factory, don't fuck in the factory, dream factory, dropout factory, factoried, factory-backed, factory class, factory edge, factory farming, factory head, factory leg, factorylike, factory mark, factory method pattern, factory pattern, factory reset, factoryscape, factory second, factory setting, factory ship, factory team, factorywise, factoryworker, Fty., gargle-factory, get to the fireworks factory, gigafactory, glue factory · +23 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at factory. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at factory. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at factory

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA