manufacture

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: man=u=fac=ture

CIDE DICTIONARY

manufacture, n. [L. manus the hand + factura a making, fr. facere to make: cf. F. manufacture. See Manual, and Fact.].

•  The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.  [1913 Webster]
•  Anything made from raw materials by the hand, by machinery, or by art, as cloths, iron utensils, shoes, machinery, saddlery, etc.  [1913 Webster]

manufacture, v. t. [Cf. F. manufacturer.].

•  To make (wares or other products) by hand, by machinery, or by other agency; as, to manufacture cloth, nails, glass, etc.  [1913 Webster]
•  To work, as raw or partly wrought materials, into suitable forms for use; as, to manufacture wool, cotton, silk, or iron.  [1913 Webster]

manufacture, v. i. 

 To be employed in manufacturing something.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

manufacture, n. & v.
--n.
1 a the making of articles esp. in a factory etc. b a branch of an industry (woollen manufacture).
2 esp. derog. the merely mechanical production of literature, art, etc.
--v.tr.
1 make (articles), esp. on an industrial scale.
2 invent or fabricate (evidence, a story, etc.).
3 esp. derog. make or produce (literature, art, etc.) in a mechanical way.

Derivative

manufacturable adj. manufacturability n. manufacturer n.

Etymology

F f. It. manifattura & L manufactum made by hand

THESAURUS

manufacture

anatomy, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, artifact, assemble, assembly, basic training, brainchild, briefing, build, building, cast, casting, child, clearing the decks, coinage, compose, composition, compound, concoct, concoction, conformation, constitution, construct, construction, contrive, conversion, cook up, counterfeit, crafting, craftsmanship, create, creation, creature, crowning achievement, cultivation, devise, devising, distillation, effect, elaborate, elaboration, end product, equipment, erect, erection, essence, evolve, extract, extraction, extrude, fabric, fabricate, fabrication, fake, familiarization, fantasize, fashion, fashioning, fixing, forge, forging, form, format, formation, forming, formulate, formulation, foundation, frame, framing, fruit, fudge, fudge together, get up, getup, groundwork, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, hatch, hoke up, indite, invent, invention, issue, machining, make, make up, makeready, makeup, making, making ready, manufacturing, mass production, mass-produce, masterpiece, masterwork, mature, milling, mining, mintage, mobilization, mold, molding, new mintage, offspring, opera, opus, opuscule, organic structure, organism, organization, originate, origination, outcome, outgrowth, patch together, pattern, patterning, physique, piece together, plan, planning, prearrangement, prefabricate, prefabrication, preliminaries, preliminary, preliminary act, preliminary step, prep, preparation, preparatory study, prepare, preparing, prepping, prerequisite, pretreatment, processing, produce, producing, product, production, propaedeutic, provision, put together, put up, putting out, putting together, raise, raising, readying, rear, refining, result, run up, set up, setup, shape, shaping, smelting, spadework, structure, structuring, tectonics, texture, think up, tissue, training, treatment, trial, trump up, tryout, turn out, turning out, warm-up, warp and woof, weave, web, whomp up, work, workmanship, write

ROGET THESAURUS

manufacture

Action

N action, performance, doing perpetration, exercise, excitation, movement, operation, evolution, work, labor, praxis, execution, procedure, handicraft, business, agency, deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow, coup, coup de main, coup d'etat, tour de force, feat, exploit, achievement, handiwork, workmanship, manufacture, stroke of policy, actor, doing, acting, in action, in harness, on duty, in operation, in the act, in the midst of, in the thick of, red-handed, in flagrante delicto, while one's hand is in, action is eloquence, actions speak louder than words, actum aiunt ne agas, awake, arise, or be forever fall'n, dii pia facta vident, faire sans dire, fare fac, fronte capillata post est occasio calva, our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts, the great end of life is not knowledge but action, thought is the soul of act, vivre-ce nest pas respirer c'est agir, we live in deeds not years.

Production

N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.

VB produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture, weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel, build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute, achieve, accomplish, flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle, bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world, make productive, create, beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate, procreate, progenerate, propagate, engender, bring into being, call into being, bring into existence, breed, hatch, develop, bring up, induce, superinduce, suscitate, cause, acquire.