MANUFACTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manufacture mean? 

• MANUFACTURE (noun)
  The noun MANUFACTURE has 2 senses:

1. the organized action of making of goods and services for sale

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

  Familiarity information: MANUFACTURE used as a noun is rare.

• MANUFACTURE (verb)
  The verb MANUFACTURE has 4 senses:

1. put together out of artificial or natural components or parts

2. concoct something artificial or untrue

3. produce naturally

4. create or produce in a mechanical way

  Familiarity information: MANUFACTURE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANUFACTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The organized action of making of goods and services for sale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

industry; manufacture

Context example:

American industry is making increased use of computers to control production

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

fabrication; manufacture; manufacturing

Context example:

manufacturing is vital to Great Britain

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)

• MANUFACTURE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they manufacture    ... he / she / it manufactures   
Past simple: manufactured   
Past participle: manufactured   
-ing form: manufacturing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put together out of artificial or natural components or parts

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

construct; fabricate; manufacture

Context example:

He manufactured a popular cereal

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 2

Meaning:

Concoct something artificial or untrue

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

cook up; fabricate; invent; make up; manufacture

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 3

Meaning:

Produce naturally

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

this gland manufactures a specific substance only

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

bring forth; produce (bring forth or yield)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Create or produce in a mechanical way

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

This novelist has been manufacturing his books following his initial success

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

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

To determine the composition of gut microbes in the stool samples, the scientists examined sequence variation within ribosomal RNA (rRNA), a central component of the protein-manufacturing machinery of all living cells.

(Infant gut microbes linked to allergy, asthma risk, NIH)

Since the liver stores and manufactures glucose or sugar depending upon the body's need, the hormone insulin signals whether the liver should store or release glucose.

(When Liver Immune Cells Turn Bad, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

New research suggests that some of the bacteria that share our human bodies manufacture antibiotics and that these substances may be capable of fighting infection.

(Human Body Microbes Make Antibiotics, Study Finds, NCCAM)

Rather than injecting such drugs into the bloodstream, it would be much better if they could be manufactured directly inside the cancer cells.

(Scientists successfully deliver “Trojan horse” catalysts into cancerous tumour cells to destroy them from within, Universities of Granada)

The hydrochloride is a synthetic, light sensitive, white crystalline powder that is soluble in dimethylsulfoxide and ethanol. o-Toluidine and o-toluidine hydrochloride are used primarily as intermediates in the manufacture of dyes and pigments.

(o-Toluidine, NCI Thesaurus)

Persistent organic pollutants are chemicals once used in agriculture, disease control, manufacturing, and industrial processes.

(Persistent organic pollutants in maternal blood linked to smaller fetal size, National Institutes of Health)

The stability period is determined from the date the product was manufactured.

(Medical Product Shelf Life, NCI Thesaurus)

The collection of the fluid portion of non-human blood intended as a source material for further manufacture.

(Collection of Non-Human Source Plasma, NCI Thesaurus)

Any process that harvests bone marrow for clinical or manufacturing purposes.

(Bone Marrow Collection, NCI Thesaurus)

A compound that increases the risk of human cancer and is mainly used in the manufacture of dyes.

(Carcinogenic Anthraquinone, NCI Thesaurus)