MANUFACTURING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manufacturing mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANUFACTURING (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("manufacturing" 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 "manufacturing"):

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)

 Context examples 

The process of manufacturing non-prescription medications for humans by a pharmaceutical company.

(Human Over-the-Counter Drug Manufacturing, NCI Thesaurus)

The process of manufacturing prescription medications for humans by a pharmaceutical company.

(Human Prescription Drug Manufacturing, NCI Thesaurus)

Terminology developed to support manufacturing efforts of the FDA.

(FDA eManufacturing Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

Diethyl sulfate is mainly used as an ethylating agent in organic synthesis and in the dye and textile manufacturing.

(Diethyl Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus)

Problems with a device that can be traced back to a problem in the manufacturing and/or production process.

(Device Manufacturing Process Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

Performing a review of the manufacturing and production processes and/or records for a specific device or lot that may have contributed to problems with a device.

(Device Process Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

Any process that harvests blood or blood products for clinical or manufacturing purposes.

(Blood Product Collection, NCI Thesaurus)

Hydrazobenzene has been used primarily in the dye manufacturing industry as the precursor of the dye intermediate benzidine and is also used as an intermediate in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.

(Hydrazobenzene, NCI Thesaurus)

Performance of the packaging part of the manufacturing process.

(Packing, NCI Thesaurus)

EXAMPLE(S): safety, sales, financial, manufacturing, Review Board contact

(Organizational Contact Type Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)