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Factory

//ˈfæk.tə.ɹi// adj, noun, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock. colloquial, not-comparable, usually

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

Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing wordnet
  3. 3
    A police station. UK, slang

    "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)."

  4. 4
    A device or process that produces or manufactures something.

    "Radio became a star factory for journalists."

  5. 5
    A factory farm.

    "chicken factory; pig factory"

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  1. 6
    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."

  2. 7
    The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer. attributive

    "factory settings; factory defaults; a factory reset"

  3. 8
    The position or state of being a factor. Scotland, archaic
  4. 9
    A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country. historical

    "We had here his curate, Mr. Furley, who had been nine years chaplain to the English factory at St. Petersburg […] ."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From factor + y. Compare Middle French factorie; Spanish factoría, Portuguese feitoria, Dutch factorij.

Etymology 2

From factor + y. Compare Middle French factorie; Spanish factoría, Portuguese feitoria, Dutch factorij.

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