factory
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
factory (plural factories)
- (obsolete) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
- Synonyms: fondaco, tradepost, trading post
- (now rare) The position or state of being a factor.
- A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
- Synonyms: manufactory
- A device which produces or manufactures something.
- A factory farm.
- chicken factory; pig factory
- (programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
- 2010, Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi, William Bartholomew, Inside the Microsoft Build Engine
- The task factory […] is the object that is responsible for creating instances of those tasks dynamically.
- 2010, Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi, William Bartholomew, Inside the Microsoft Build Engine
- (UK, slang) A police station.
- 2010, Harry Keeble, Kris Hollington, Crack House
- 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).
- 2010, Harry Keeble, Kris Hollington, Crack House
- French: usine, fabrique, manufacture
- German: Fabrik, Manufaktur, Werk
- Italian: fabbrica, impianto, manifattura, stabilimento
- Portuguese: fábrica, usina
- Russian: фа́брика
- Spanish: fábrica, planta
factory (not comparable)
- (colloquial, of a configuration, part, etc.) 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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