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institution
English
Etymology
From Old French institution, from Latin instit?ti?, from institu? (“to set up”), from in- (“in, on”) + statu? (“to set up, establish”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??nst??tju???n/, /??nst??t?u???n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??nst??tu???n/
Noun
institution (countable and uncountable, plural institutions)
- A custom or practice of a society or community.
- The institution of marriage is present in many cultures but its details vary widely across them.
- An organization similarly long established and respected, particularly one involved with education, public service, or charity work.
- The University of the South Pacific is the only internationally-accredited institution of higher education in Oceania.
- The building or buildings which house such an organization.
- He's been in an institution since the crash.
- (informal) Other places or businesses similarly long established and respected.
- Over time, the local pub has become something of an institution.
- 2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo:
- "They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy."
- (informal) A person similarly long established in a place, position, or field.
- She's not just any old scholar; she is an institution.
- The act of instituting something.
- The institution of higher speed limits was a popular move but increased the severity of crashes.
- (Christianity) The act by which a bishop commits a cure of souls to a priest.
- (obsolete) That which institutes or instructs, particularly a textbook or system of elements or rules.
Synonyms
- establishment
Derived terms
- academic institution
- educational institution
- research institution
Related terms
- institute
- institutional
- institutionalism
- institutionalist
Translations
References
- institution at OneLook Dictionary Search
- institution in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "institution" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 168.
- institution in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- institution in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Danish
Etymology
From Latin ?nstit?ti?.
Noun
institution c (singular definite institutionen, plural indefinite institutioner)
- institution
Inflection
Derived terms
References
- “institution” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From Latin ?nstit?ti?.
Pronunciation
Noun
institution f (plural institutions)
- institution
Further reading
- “institution” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin ?nstit?ti?.
Noun
institution c
- an institution (an established organization)
- an institution (a habit)
- an institution (a person)
- a department (at a university)
- datavetenskapliga institutionen
- department of computer science
- institutionen för fysik
- department of physics
- datavetenskapliga institutionen
Declension
Related terms
- instituera
- institut
- institutionalisera
- institutionell
- kulturinstitution
Further reading
- institution in Svensk ordbok.
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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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