Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word FACTORY

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Definitions of FACTORY

1. A factory farm.
2. A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
3. (chiefly, Scottish, now, rare) The position or state of being a factor. [from 16th c.]
4. A building or other place where manufacturing takes place. [from 17th c.]
5. (UK, slang) A police station. [from 19th c.]
6. (programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
7. (colloquial, of a configuration, part, etc.) Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.
8. (attributive) The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer.
9. (historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country. [from 16th c.]

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Examples of Using FACTORY in a Sentence

• Zinkfabrik Altenberg, a former zinc factory, now a branch of the LVR Industrial Museum, Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia.
• Their father, George McGhee, was a factory worker, known around University Avenue for playing guitar and singing.
• As of 2015, Bostik was manufacturing around 100 tonnes of Blu Tack weekly at its Leicester factory.
• In 1916, Danish engineer Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen founded a factory in Zschopau, Saxony, Germany, to produce steam fittings.
• His father was a factory manager and he was engaged in Trotskyist political activism as a teenager, before studying and training under (and being analyzed by) the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in the early 1950s.
• Formula Two had become too expensive, and was dominated by works-run cars with factory engines; the hope was that Formula 3000 would offer quicker, cheaper, more open racing.
• Hilter was well known for mining Hilter Gold ochre as well as its big margarine factory which owned one of the largest whaling fleets in the early 20th century.
• From the 1930s when de Havilland opened a factory, until the 1990s when British Aerospace closed it, aircraft design and manufacture employed more people there than any other industry.
• Heckler & Koch was founded in 1949 by former Mauser engineers Edmund Heckler, Theodor Koch, and Alex Seidel, who founded the company out of the shuttered Mauser factory in Oberndorf.
• This transition included going from hand production methods to machines; new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes; the increasing use of water power and steam power; the development of machine tools; and the rise of the mechanised factory system.
• In 1942 the outbreak of war with the US forced his middle school class into a factory producing radiators for the military.
• Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot be grown through agricultural processes, or feasibly created artificially in a laboratory or factory.
• Instead radio programs were transmitted by copper wire, using a hub and spoke system, to loudspeakers in approved listening stations, such as the "Red" corner of a factory.
• Helena, the daughter of the president of a major industrial power, arrives at the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots.
• Having raced cars as well as motorcycles from 1925 until 1930, he then concentrated on cars, and won the 1932 European Championship with the Alfa Romeo factory team, Alfa Corse.
• Her father, a decorated First World War veteran, died when she was only six months old, and her mother moved to Berlin and worked in a factory.
• Patrese also competed at the World Sportscar Championship for the Lancia factory team, finishing runner-up in 1982 and collecting eight wins.
• Arfwedson belonged to a wealthy bourgeois family, the son of the wholesale merchant and factory owner Jacob Arfwedson and his spouse, Anna Elisabeth Holtermann.
• Born in Gorton, Manchester, to John Edward ("Jack") Thaw, a tool-setter at the Fairey Aviation Company aircraft factory, later a long-distance lorry driver, and Dorothy (née Ablott).
• The abstract factory pattern in software engineering is a design pattern that provides a way to create families of related objects without imposing their concrete classes, by encapsulating a group of individual factories that have a common theme without specifying their concrete classes.

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