单词 | manufactory |
释义 | manufactoryn. 1. The production of manufactured goods; a manufacturing industry or specified area of industry. Also figurative. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [noun] makinglOE workinga1382 forge1390 fashion1463 facture1574 workmanship1578 fabrication1602 manufaction1602 opificec1616 manufacture1622 makec1631 manufactorya1641 manufact1647 manufacturage1665 manufacturing1669 production1767 mfg.1854 artificing1866 process work1881 machine-production1898 metal-bending1964 society > occupation and work > industry > [noun] industry?1566 manufacture1638 manufact1647 manufactory1832 a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 167 The charges in the wholl manufactory soe particularly in..spoolinge, warpinge, quillinge..and the like. 1653 J. Keymor Raleigh's Observ. Trade 5 Thereby to bring Manufactory into the Kingdome, and to set on worke all sorts of people. 1657 R. Carpenter Astrol. Proved Harmless 5 Mechanical, inferiour, and earthly Arts, pertaining to Manufactry, were invented by Cain and his Children. 1757 Refl. Importation of Bar-iron 13 To suppress a manufactury in America, which must have been so fatal to our own in England. 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VI. xvii. 70 To..work the machine to the improvement and better manufactury of the arts and sciences. 1812 J. J. Henry Accurate Acct. Campaign against Quebec 79 All neatly and warmly clothed in woolen, apparently of their own manufactory. 1832 R. Southey Ess. II. 332 The introduction of the linen manufactory is another instance. 1846 G. S. Faber Lett. Tractarian Secession Popery 215 The deliberate manufactory of falsehood seems to be a regular part of the Popish system. 1986 T. Mo Insular Possession xliii. 571 Care should be taken at this stage of the manufactory. 2. a. A place where a product is manufactured; a factory or workshop, now esp. one where articles are handmade. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > factory > [noun] mill1403 work1581 factory1618 manufacture1623 manuary1625 manufactory1641 fabric1656 hong1726 plant1789 machinery1799 usine1858 oficina1889 officina1906 1641 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1870) V. 657 For intertayneing and erecting of Manufactories for cloathe... Forsamelke as the want of manufactories. 1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 524 The queens manufactury in the Strand. 1746 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 131/2 They also visited the fine tin manufactory at Messins-brok,..and the celebrated copper mine. 1760 Green & Russell's Boston Post-boy & Advertiser 31 Mar. 2/3 To be let or sold the Sperma-ceti Manufactory in Weymouth. 1795 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Essex 27 A straw-hat manufactory has lately been established. 1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 591 Milk manufactories usurp the place Of..dairies. 1850 J. Marryat Coll. towards Hist. Pottery & Porcelain vi. 111 King-te-tching is also stated to be the site of the manufactory of the old sea-green and crackle porcelain, generally known by the name of Celadon. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator iii. 130/2 If the goods are fresh from the manufactory. 1923 National Geographic Mag. Jan. 74/2 There is the chocolate manufactory, a factory for making cement, and a porcelain industry. 1948 E. Hyams Blood Money 180 There are other motion-picture manufacturies. 1978 V. Cronin Catherine xv. 179 The town lay close to privately-owned manufactories and foundries, where minerals from the Urals were processed. 1992 Church Times 26 June 7/3 Richard Arkwright..established in Cromford, in Derbyshire, in 1771, the world's first successful manufactory, which brought people together under one roof to do what they had been doing separately in their cottages. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1813 T. Morton Education 74 Mrs. Templeton has had a perverted modern education: for in our stylish manufactories of female attainments, the Muses and Graces so struggle for precedency, that the..domestic virtues are..jostled into a corner. 1825 Lancet 24 Dec. 457/1 The spleen is an elastic reservoir and manufactory of venous blood. 1840 W. Whitman Let. 11 Aug. in Amer. Lit. (1986) 58 350 In the manufactory of Nature, the building of these coarse gump-heads that people Woodbury, must have been given to some raw hand. 1854 Notes & Queries 3 June 524/1 Each..apartment is a manufactory for converting pure into foul air. 1863 C. Swain Art & Fashion 34 Nature's manufactory for me: She moves on silently, though reproducing Faster than man, with all his new-found helps. 1979 Amer. Poetry Rev. Mar. 34/2 I adverted to the charming deftness of my inexorable kidneys and the crafty manufactury of my gut. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [noun] > manufactured article or product workOE making1340 manufacture1587 preparation1590 manufactory1653 manufact1664 manufacturage1665 fabric1753 end-product1939 run-off1952 1653 J. Keymor Raleigh's Observ. Trade 34 Other Manufactories vendible to the number of about one thousand. 1685 London Gaz. No. 2009/8 An Engine..for Beautifying of Cloth..Bays and all Woollen Manufactory. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vi. §56. 464 The Manufactury and Product of England. 1776 T. Paine Common Sense iv. 64 We ought to view the building a fleet as an article of commerce, it being the natural manufactory of this country. 1778 H. L. Piozzi Diary Mar.–Apr. in K. C. Balderston Thraliana (1942) I. 272 From beginning to ending they were all my own Manufactury. 1786 Lady Jerningham in Jerningham Lett. (1896) I. 37 A very fine silver gown. It is a new Norwich manufactory. 1813 R. Southey Let. 6 June (1850) IV. 34 The boys, to convince us that these long thin black worms were their own manufactory by the old receipt..actually laid bare the horsehair in the middle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). manufactoryadj.ΚΠ 1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects 70 Servile and manufactory men that should serve the uses of the world in the handicrafts. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [adjective] manufactory1704 manufacturing1722 manufactural1757 industrial1815 productional1899 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub ii. 57 A sort of Idol, who..did daily create Men, by a kind of Manufactury Operation. 1758 I. Fletcher Diary 15 Aug. (1994) 51 A large popelous [sic] town & abundance of business here in manufactory way. 1799 C. Ludger Peevish Man ii. viii. 47 French guns in every corner; here and there a Milanese one; chiefly manufactory goods. 1855 Notes & Queries 21 July 39/1 The most melancholy results constantly ensue from the unavoidable inhalation of it [sc. smoke] by workmen in certain spheres of manufactory labour. 3. North American. Designating or relating to currency issued by the Massachusetts land bank of 1740, intended to be redeemable chiefly in manufactured goods or other commodities. Now historical.The scheme was stopped by Act of Parliament in 1741. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > [adjective] > types of currency manufactory1740 sound1841 soft1857 convertible1911 1740 in Trans. Colonial Soc. Mass. (1904) 6 171 (note) A Letter to the Merchant in London, To Whom is Directed A Printed Letter relating to the Manufactory Undertaking, dated New England, Boston February 21st 1740. 1741 in N. Bouton Provinc. Papers New-Hampsh. (1871) V. p. lxxvi The manufactory notes of a Combination of Persons in the other Government. 1895 in Publ. Colonial Soc. Mass. 3 11 These payments were to be made in Manufactory Notes, or in hemp, flax, bar-iron, cast-iron, and certain other enumerated commodities. 1902 Econ. Jrnl. 12 75 These payments were to be made in Manufactory Notes, as the notes of the bank were called, or in produce of the Province. 1953 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 40 467 The Land Bank or Manufactory Scheme episode of 1740, during which the house of representatives demonstrated its complete power over the governor and council. 1990 William & Mary Q. 47 568 Small merchants, tradesmen, and farmers proposed the Land Bank or Manufactory Scheme in late 1739 to supply a private circulating currency—secured by real estate and redeemable in enumerated local manufactures or commodities. 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