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concern
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French concerner, from Medieval Latin concern?, concernere (“I distinguish, have respect to”), from Latin concern? (“I mix, sift, or mingle together, as in a sieve”), combined form of con- + cern? (“distinguish”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /k?n?s?n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?n?s??n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)n
- Hyphenation: con?cern
Noun
concern (countable and uncountable, plural concerns)
- That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
- Synonym: interest
- The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
- A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
- (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
- 2006, Awais Rashid, Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II, page 148:
- At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern.
- 2006, Awais Rashid, Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II, page 148:
Translations
Further reading
- concern in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- concern in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Verb
concern (third-person singular simple present concerns, present participle concerning, simple past and past participle concerned)
- (transitive) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Acts xxviii. 31
- Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
- our wars with France have always affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those we have had with any other nation
- 1821, James Fenimore Cooper, The Spy
- ignorant, so far as the usual instruction was concerned
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Acts xxviii. 31
- (transitive) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, A Sufficiency adjusted and recommended
- They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favour.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, A Sufficiency adjusted and recommended
- (transitive) To make somebody worried.
Synonyms
- (to be of importance to): See also Thesaurus:pertain
Derived terms
- concernable
Translations
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English concern.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?s?rn/
- Hyphenation: con?cern
- Rhymes: -?rn
Noun
concern n (plural concerns, diminutive concerntje n)
- company, business, concern
Derived terms
- chemieconcern
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factory
English
Etymology
From factor +? -y. Compare Middle French factorie; Italian fattoria, Spanish factoría, Portuguese feitoria, Dutch factorij.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?fækt??i/, /?fækt?i/
- (UK)
Noun
factory (plural factories)
- (chiefly Scotland, now rare) The position or state of being a factor. [from 16th c.]
- (now historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country. [from 16th c.]
- 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 184:
- We had here his curate, Mr. Furley, who had been nine years chaplain to the English factory at St. Petersburg […] .
- 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 184:
- A building or other place where manufacturing takes place. [from 17th c.]
- Synonym: manufactory
- (Britain, slang) A police station. [from 19th c.]
- 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
- 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
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: faktori
- Welsh: ffatri
Translations
Further reading
- factory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- factory in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Adjective
factory (not comparable)
- (colloquial, of a configuration, part, etc.) Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.
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