different between manufacture vs pyrotechny

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

pyro- +? tech +? -y

Noun

pyrotechny (uncountable)

1. The manufacture and use of fireworks.
   • 1850, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men, Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., Chapter 5, p. 214,^[1]

     [Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind. Is it not as if one should have, through majestic powers of science, the comets given into his hand, or the planets and their moons, and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night, and advertise in all towns, “very superior pyrotechny this evening!”

   • 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, Penguin, 1963, Chapter 3, p. 89,^[2]

     ‘ […] I came to the conclusion that this demonstration of our skill in the art of pyrotechny was valuable, if only because it impressed upon them ... the superiority of the British.... […] ’

2. (figuratively) Impressive, dazzling or virtuosic display.
   • 1848, Thomas De Quincey, “Charles Lamb and his Friends,” The North British Review, Volume 10, Number 19, p. 179,^[3]

     But if all rhetoric is a mode of pyrotechny, and all pyrotechnics are by necessity fugacious, yet even in these frail pomps there are many degrees of frailty.

   • 1890, Theodore Child, “Old Books and New,” The Art Amateur, Volume 22, 1 March, 1890, p. 87,^[4]

     It was Le Gascon who, not finding room enough for his exquisite pyrotechny on the outside of the volumes that he had to bind, conceived the idea of lining the side-covers with morocco and continuing his brilliant fiorituri on the inside too.

   • 1908, Lawrence Gilman, Aspects of Modern Opera, New York: John Lane, “A View of Puccini,” p. 36,^[5]

     A score of years ago those who cared at all for the dramatic element in opera, and the measure of whose delight was not filled up by the vocal pyrotechny which was the mainstay of the operas of the older répertoire, found in these music-dramas their chief solace and satisfaction.

3. The use of fire in chemistry and metallurgy.
   • 1670, Uncredited translator, The Golden Calf by John Frederick Helvetius (1667), London: John Starkey, Chapter 4,^[6]

     Indeed all men well skilled in the Chymical Science, have a necessity of assenting to me in this, viz. that Pyrotechny is the Mother, and Nurse of various noble Sciences and Arts.

   • 1701, Anonymous, Bellum Medicinale, or The Present State of Doctors and Apothecaries in London, London: M. Fabian, Chapter 1, p. 4,^[7]

     Nor have the Physicians only neglected, but been ignorant of the Pharmaceutick Part. Neither can the Apothecaries any more than the Physicians pretend themselves compleat herein, being generally alike ignorant of the chief and most artful Part, Pyrotechny, leaving its most effectual Preparations to the Care of those, whose Care is only how they may make them, not most adapted to the Cure of Diseases, but to their best Advantage […]

4. (obsolete) The manufacture and use of gunpowder, bombs etc.
   • 1867, James Gilchrist Benton, A Course of Instruction in Ordnance and Gunnery, New York: D. Van Nostrand, 3rd edition, Part I, Chapter I, p. 7,^[8]

     Gunpowder and the compositions of pyrotechny are the means used, in modern warfare, to propel projectiles, explode mines, destroy ships and buildings, and furnish light and signals for the operations of an army at night.

Translations

See also

• pyrotechnics