different between manufacture vs frame

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.

English

Etymology

From Middle English framen, fremen, fremmen (“to construct, build, strengthen, refresh, perform, execute, profit, avail”), from Old English framian, fremian, fremman (“to profit, avail, advance, perform, promote, execute, commit, do”), from Proto-Germanic *framjan? (“to perform, promote”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“front, forward”). Cognate with Low German framen (“to commit, effect”), Danish fremme (“to promote, further, perform”), Swedish främja (“to promote, encourage, foster”), Icelandic fremja (“to commit”). More at from.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?e?m/
• Rhymes: -e?m

Verb

frame (third-person singular simple present frames, present participle framing, simple past and past participle framed)

1. (transitive) To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
   • 1578, John Lyly, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

   • 1828, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations - Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney

   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

2. (transitive) To construct by fitting or uniting together various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
3. (transitive) To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.

   • He began to frame the loveliest countenance he could.

4. (transitive) Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.

5. (transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
6. (transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.

7. (transitive) To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
8. (transitive, criminology) Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person. See frameup.

9. (intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
10. (intransitive, dialectal) To move.
11. (intransitive, obsolete) To proceed; to go.
12. (tennis) To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).
13. (transitive, obsolete) To strengthen; refresh; support.
14. (transitive, obsolete) To execute; perform.
15. (transitive, obsolete) To cause; to bring about; to produce.
16. (intransitive, obsolete) To profit; avail.
17. (intransitive, obsolete) To fit; accord.
    • 1531, William Tyndale, An Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue

18. (intransitive, obsolete) To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage.

Synonyms

• (conspire to incriminate): fit up

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Dutch: frame
• ? German: framen

Translations

Noun

frame (plural frames)

1. The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.

2. Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
3. The structure of a person's body; the human body.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXXIV:

     There they stood, ranged along the hillsides, met / To view the last of me, a living frame / For one more picture! […]

   • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi:

     The high school had a send-off in my honour. It was an uncommon thing for a young man of Rajkot to go to England. I had written out a few words of thanks. But I could scarcely stammer them out. I remember how my head reeled and how my whole frame shook as I stood up to read them.

4. A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.

5. A piece of photographic film containing an image.
   • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

     If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.

6. A context for understanding or interpretation.

7. (snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
8. (networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
9. (bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.
10. (horticulture) A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants.

    a forcing-frame; a cucumber frame

11. (philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
12. (philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
13. (electronics, film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th or 1/60th of a second.
14. (Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
15. (baseball, slang) An inning.
16. (engineering, dated, chiefly Britain) Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.

    a stocking frame; a lace frame; a spinning frame

17. (dated) Frame of mind; disposition.

    to be always in a happy frame

    • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XVI:

      And I partook of the infinite calm in which she lay: my mind was never in a holier frame than while I gazed on that untroubled image of Divine rest.

18. (obsolete) Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
19. (dated, video games) A stage or level of a video game.
    • 1982, Gilsoft International, Mongoose (video game instructions) [2]

      When you play the game it will draw a set pattern depending on the frame you are on, with random additions to the pattern, to give a different orchard each time.

20. (genetics, "reading frame") A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
21. (computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
22. (mathematics) A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins.

Quotations

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• feMRA, fream

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English frame.

Pronunciation

Noun

frame n (plural frames, diminutive framepje n)

1. (snooker) frame
2. (construction) frame

Anagrams

• afrem, farme, rem af

German

Verb

frame

1. inflection of framen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English frame.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?f?ejm/, /?f?ejm/, /?f?ej.mi/

Noun

frame m (plural frames)

1. (networking) frame (independent chunk of data)
2. (Internet) frame (individually scrollable region of a webpage)
3. frame (individual image emitted by a projector or monitor)