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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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rosie
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?o.zi/
- Homophones: rosi, rosies, rosis, rosit, rosît
Verb
rosie
- feminine singular of the past participle of rosir
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r?.??/
Noun
rosie f
- dative/locative singular of rosa
rosie From the web:
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- what's rosie o'donnell doing now
- what's rosie o'donnell's net worth
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