单词 | manufacture |
释义 | man·u·fac·ture I. 1. < hemp and tow cloth were familiar household manufactures — V.S.Clark > < imports most manufactures used by consumers or needed for internal development — D.L.Cohn > 2. a. < families engaged in domestic manufacture often lived and worked in one room — J.W.Krutch > < the manufacture of furniture > < steel manufacture > b. 3. obsolete 4. archaic < all my prospects were built on a manufacture I had erected — Daniel Defoe > 5. < the manufacture of blood goes on constantly in the human body — Morris Fishbein > < a true appreciation of the manufacture of a movie and of a star — Horace Sutton > < his ideas about the manufacture of this world and his hopes for his future — Rudyard Kipling > II. transitive verb 1. < the wood … is manufactured into fine cabinetwork — American Guide Series: Oregon > < manufacture iron into steel > 2. a. < were manufacturing beautiful jewelry of gold, silver, shell, and precious stones — R.W.Murray > < a substitute for milk … manufactured from the soya bean — V.G.Heiser > b. < manufacturing 7000 cars in one day — American Guide Series: Michigan > 3. < the speech is evidently manufactured by the historian — Edward Gibbon > 4. a. < is busy manufacturing a new culture — D.W.Brogan > < the strain of manufacturing conversation for at least ten minutes — Wilfred Fienburgh > b. < green plants manufacture carbohydrates > intransitive verb Synonyms: see make |
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