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manufacture
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)
- The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.
- 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.
- 1727, Jonathan Swift, A Short View of the State of Ireland
- (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.
- 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
- (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)
- To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.
- (transitive) To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use.
- to manufacture wool into blankets
- (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)
- 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)
- 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 IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (manufacture)
Spanish
Verb
manufacture
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of manufacturar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of manufacturar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of manufacturar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of manufacturar.
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erect
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
- Hyphenation: erect
Etymology 1
From Middle English erect, a borrowing from Latin ?rectus (“upright”), past participle of ?rig? (“raise, set up”), from ?- (“out”) + reg? (“to direct, keep straight, guide”).
Adjective
erect (comparative more erect, superlative most erect)
- Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
- 1789, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 6, chapter 64.
- Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect — a column in a scene of ruins.
- 1789, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 6, chapter 64.
- (of body parts) Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.
- Synonyms: hard, stiff
- (of a man) Having an erect penis
- Synonyms: hard, stiff
- (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
- 1827, John Keble, The Christian Year
- But who is he, by years / Bowed, but erect in heart?
- 1827, John Keble, The Christian Year
- (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
- Watchful; alert.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- vigilant and erect attention of mind
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
Antonyms
- (rigid; standing out perpendicularly): flaccid
Derived terms
- erectable
- semierect
Related terms
- erectile
- erection
- erigible
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English erecten, from the adjective (see above).
Verb
erect (third-person singular simple present erects, present participle erecting, simple past and past participle erected)
- (transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
- (transitive) To cause to stand up or out.
- To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
- (aviation, of a gyroscopic attitude indicator) To spin up and align to vertical.
- (aviation, of a gyroscopic attitude indicator) To spin up and align to vertical.
- To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
- that didst his state above his hopes erect
- , Preface
- I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.
- To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Contentment (sermon)
- It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Contentment (sermon)
- (astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 332:
- In 1581 Parliament made it a statutory felony to erect figures, cast nativities, or calculate by prophecy how long the Queen would live or who would succeed her.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 332:
- To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
- from fallacious foundations, and misapprehended mediums, erecting conclusions no way inferrible from their premises
- Malebranche erects this proposition.
- To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- to erect a new commonwealth
- 1812, Arthur Collins & Sir Egerton Brydges, Peerage of England, F.C. and J. Rivington et al, page 330:
- In 1686, he was appointed one of the Commissioners in the new ecclesiastical commission erected by King James, and was proud of that honour.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
Synonyms
- build
Derived terms
- erecting shop
- re-erect, reerect
Translations
Anagrams
- -crete, Crete, recte, terce
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