manufacture

noun

1. 1

   The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.

   After years of exporting the gum base to be used as an ingredient in the manufacture of regular chewing gum, the cooperative recently decided to start making its own gum using only chicle gum base and natural flavorings and sweeteners, Chicza said.

2. 2

   Anything made, formed or produced; product.

   The roads [are] crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures.

   Thus, a patented manufacture should be either better in quality or cheaper in cost than that which it is intended to supplant.

3. 3

   figurativeThe process of such production; generation, creation.

   Our lawgivers take special pride in the ever active manufacture of new bills and laws.

4. 4

   A watch manufacturer that makes its own parts, rather than assembling watches from parts obtained from other firms.

verb

1. 1

   To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.

   Scientists are learning how to manufacture sperm and egg cells from other types of cell; others are developing "alternative" wombs

   An effort was made to fit the flexible tube at least 3 mm deep onto the vasculature; (2) for the remaining systems, 3D-printed polyethylene terephthalate (PET) reservoir blocks were manufactured by PrintPlace using FDM technology. The additively manufactured PET reservoir blocks were previously applied and proven to effectively circulate the agent through the healing network [6].

2. 2

   To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use.

   to manufacture wool into blankets

   The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words.

3. 3

   To fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point.

   The collegian keeps manufacturing new excuses for their tardiness.

   Digital technology has made it so easy to manufacture lies that it's become difficult to separate fact from fiction.

Forms

plural

manufactures

past tense

manufactured

past participle

manufactured

present participle

manufacturing

third person singular

manufactures