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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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versatile
English
Etymology
From Latin vers?tilis (“turning easily”), from vers?tus, past participle of vers? (“I turn, change”), frequentative of vert? (“I turn”).
Pronunciation
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /?v?s?tl?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?v??s?ta?l/, [?v??s?ta??]
Adjective
versatile (comparative more versatile, superlative most versatile)
- Capable of doing many things competently.
- Having varied uses or many functions.
- Changeable or inconstant.
- (biology) Capable of moving freely in all directions.
- (BDSM) Being a switch; capable of taking either a dominant or a submissive role.
- 2004, "queenchaser1158", Horny Versatile TV/TS Wanted in Phoenix (on newsgroup alt.personals.gay)
- (gay slang) Capable of taking either a penetrative (top) or receptive (bottom) role in anal sex.
Derived terms
- versatility
Translations
Further reading
- versatile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- versatile in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- versatile at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- levirates, relatives
French
Etymology
From Latin vers?tilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v??.sa.til/
Adjective
versatile (plural versatiles)
- versatile; easily changeable
- indecisive
Derived terms
- versatilité
Further reading
- “versatile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
From Latin versatilis, from versare (“to turn, to twist”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ver?sa.ti.le/
Adjective
versatile (plural versatili)
- versatile
- all-round, all around, multiskilled
Derived terms
- versatilità
Anagrams
- laveresti, rilevaste, rivaleste, rivelaste, servitela, versateli
Latin
Adjective
vers?tile
- nominative neuter singular of vers?tilis
- accusative neuter singular of vers?tilis
- vocative neuter singular of vers?tilis
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /versa?tile/
Adjective
versatile f pl or n pl
- nominative feminine plural of versatil
- accusative feminine plural of versatil
- nominative neuter plural of versatil
- accusative neuter plural of versatil
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