factory — ozdic

Collocations

16

1

(noun.)

ADJ

large | small | modern | disused | aircraft, car, chemical, clothing, munitions, etc.

VERB + FACTORY

open, set up

The company decided to open a new factory in the industrial area last year.

close (down), shut (down)

The company decided to shut down its clothing factory last year due to falling sales.

manage, run

FACTORY + VERB

make sth, produce sth | open

close (down), shut (down)

The textile factory shut down last month because of low demand.

FACTORY + NOUN

manager, owner, worker | job, production, work | buildings | closure

PREP

at/in ~

My sister got a job at the textile factory last month.

Definitions

noun

1

A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.

The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.

2

A police station.

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).

3

A device or process that produces or manufactures something.

Radio became a star factory for journalists.

4

A factory farm.

chicken factory; pig factory

5

In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.

The task factory […] is the object that is responsible for creating instances of those tasks dynamically.

adj

1

Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.

See how there's another layer of metal there? That's not factory.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

send to the glue factory

To kill, usually a horse.

poop factory

An infant.

She didn't feel pushed aside because the colic-stricken poop factory needed to be changed and burped again.

get to the fireworks factory

To reach the most interesting, eventful or important part of a storyline.

Jesus falls again, and now some woman brings him a drink. I'm getting so tired of this whole sequence. When are they going to get to the fireworks factory!?

Example Bank

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[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendere

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02

The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which h

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03

History has shown that, even without cheap labor, factories run perfectly well.

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04

See how there's another layer of metal there? That's not factory.

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05

Thanks to the technological innovation, the maximum output of the factory has doubled.

Tatoeba · #20054

06

The supervisor enforced the rules here in this factory.

Tatoeba · #20998

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, factory is marked as slang, UK, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.