different between making vs manufacture

English

Alternative forms

• makeing (obsolete)
• makin, makkin (Wearside, Durham, dialectal)
• makin', mekin (pronunciation spelling)
• myekin (Tyneside, dialectal)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me?k??/
• Rhymes: -e?k??
• Hyphenation: mak?ing

Etymology 1

From Middle English making, from Old English macung (“making”), equivalent to make +? -ing. Cognate with Dutch making (“making”), Old High German machunga.

Noun

making (countable and uncountable, plural makings)

1. The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
2. Process of growth or development.

   As a child, he didn’t seem like a genius in the making.

Derived terms

• brushmaking, brush-making
• decision-making
• history-making
• making of

Translations

Etymology 2

From make +? -ing.

Verb

making

1. present participle of make
   • 1981, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups - fa.human-nets, 10 May 1981 09:16-EDT, Robert Elton Maas

     Soon (30 years?) we'll be making complete DNA and life in reverse, growing food that only reversed creatures cn^[sic] eat.

English

Etymology

From Middle French manufacture, from Old French, from Medieval Latin man?fact?ra (“a making by hand”), from manufactus, a compound of manu factus, man? being ablative of manus (“hand”), and factus past participle of faci? (“I do, make”). (compare main, manual, facture.)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mænj??fækt??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mænju?fækt??/
• Hyphenation: man?u?fac?ture
• Rhymes: -ækt??(?)

Noun

manufacture (plural manufactures)

1. The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.
2. Anything made, formed or produced; product.
   • 1727, Jonathan Swift, A Short View of the State of Ireland

     The roads [are] crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures.

3. (figuratively) The process of such production; generation, creation.
   • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:

     Our lawgivers take special pride in the ever active manufacture of new bills and laws.

4. (horology) A watch manufacturer that makes its own parts, rather than assembling watches from parts obtained from other firms.

Derived terms

• manufactural
• manufacture of consent

Related terms

• manufact
• manufactory

Translations

Verb

manufacture (third-person singular simple present manufactures, present participle manufacturing, simple past and past participle manufactured)

1. To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.
2. (transitive) To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use.

   to manufacture wool into blankets

3. (derogatory) To fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point.

Related terms

• manufacturer

Translations

References

• manufacture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “manufacture”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

French

Etymology

From Latin manu factura "making by hand"; from manus "hand" + factura "making", from facere "make".

Noun

manufacture f (plural manufactures)

1. factory

Further reading

• “manufacture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Alternative forms

• manifacture

Etymology

Italian manufactura, from Medieval Latin manufactura.

Noun

manufacture f (plural manufactures)

1. creation; manufacture

References

• “manufacture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (manufacture)

Spanish

Verb

manufacture

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of manufacturar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of manufacturar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of manufacturar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of manufacturar.