MANUFACTORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manufactory mean? 

• MANUFACTORY (noun)
  The noun MANUFACTORY has 1 sense:

1. a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing

  Familiarity information: MANUFACTORY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANUFACTORY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

factory; manufactory; manufacturing plant; mill

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

industrial plant; plant; works (buildings for carrying on industrial labor)

Meronyms (parts of "manufactory"):

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 "manufactory"):

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)

 Context examples 

The booms were tearing at the blocks, the rudder was banging to and fro, and the whole ship creaking, groaning, and jumping like a manufactory.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)