Word Finder - factory

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A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.

synonyms

• fondaco
• tradepost
• trading post

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The position or state of being a factor.

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A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

synonyms

• manufactory

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A device which produces or manufactures something.

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A factory farm.

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chicken factory; pig factory

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In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.

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A police station.

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(of a configuration, part, etc.) Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.

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

The fifth man was the factory lad in the loose cloak.

Working in a factory required learning a whole different rhythm of life.

The factory hands followed him.

I cannot believe that our factory system is the best mode by which men may get clothing.

The total value of the factory product in 1905 was $4,951,964, an increase of 82.3% since 1900.

There is a factory for pressing cotton.

A salt basin underlies the city, and, next to the lumber industry, the salt industry was the first to be developed, but its importance has dwindled; the product value in 1905 being $20,098 out of $5,620,866 for all factory products.

Meanwhile he had been appointed physician advising on the establishment of a silk factory.

In 1900 the value of the factory products was $4,691,779; in 1905 it was $5,900,129, the city ranking third among the cities of the state in value of factory products.

The factory hands and others followed behind, talking and shouting.

Milan and Genoa are the principal centres, and also the government military pharmaceutical factory at Turin.

The value of the factory product for 1905, however, was 3.3% less than that for 1900, though it represented 36.6% of the product of the state as a whole.

When that passionate young prince, in revenge for a fancied wrong, resolved to drive the English out of Bengal, his first step was to occupy the fortified factory at Cossimbazar, and make prisoners of Hastings and his companions.

The total value of the city's factory products in 1905 was $2,326,552.

Such statistics of the special census of manufactures (under the factory system) of 1905 as are comparable with those of 1900 show 99 factories in 1900 and 115 in 1905, an increase of 16.2%.

The Other he charged disappeared before he reached him, only to reappear on the other side of the factory floor.

The administration of the Servian railways has its factory for repairing engines and principal store of materials in the city, which also possesses an iron foundry.

It was devised by the Hudson's Bay Company for carrying freight, as a substitute for the less serviceable canoe, and was named after their York factory, the centre to which the traders brought down the furs for shipment to England and from which they took back merchandise and supplies to the interior of Rupert's Land.

The total value of Winston's factory products increased from $4,887,649 in 1900 to $11,353,296 in 1905, or 132.3%.

A similar system was introduced into South Australia by an act passed in 1900 amending the Factory Act of 1894, which was the first legislation of the sort passed in that state.

The total value of the factory products in 1905 was $3,886,833.

The first British factory in the peninsula was established in the native state of Patani on the east coast in 1613, the place having been used by the Portuguese in the 16th century for a similar purpose; but the enterprise came to an untimely end in 1620 when Captain Jourdain, the first president, was killed in a naval engagement in Patani Roads by the Dutch.

The value of the city's factory products increased from $2,873,334 in 1900 to $4,356,615 in 1905 or 51.6%.

Journeys were also made by land, and, among others, the entertaining author of the Crudities, Thomas Coryate, of Odcombe in Somersetshire, wandered on foot from France to India, and died (1617) in the company's factory at Surat.

The total value of the factory product in 1905 was $12,362,600, the city ranking third in product value among the cities of the state.

In 1905 the city's factory products were valued at $40,435,531, an increase of 16.4% in five years.

In 1905 Portland was the first manufacturing city of the state, with a factory product valued at $9,132,801 (as against $8,527,649 for Lewiston, which outranked Portland in 1900); here are foundries and machine-shops, planing-mills, car and railway repair shops, packing and canning establishments - probably the first Indian corn canned in the United States was canned near Portland in 1840 - potteries, and factories for making boots, shoes, clothing, matches, screens, sleighs, carriages, cosmetics, &c. Shipbuilding and fishing are important industries.

Bourg is the capital and Belley is the seat of a bishop. Jujurieux, in the arrondissement of Nantua, has the most important silk factory in the department, occupying over 1000 workpeople.

In the following year they concluded a peace with the zamorin and were allowed to build a fortified factory on the north bank of the Kallayi river, which was however again, and finally, abandoned in 1525.

And yet the future I envision is no more like what we have today than a state-of-the-art Volvo factory is like a nineteenth-century London sweatshop.

About the same time he had the offer of the post of chaplain to the factory at Bencoolen, in the Straits Settlements.

The increase in the value of the "factory" product between 1900 and 1905 was from $59,322,234 to $82,227,950, or 38.6%.

The river furnishes considerable water-power and the total factory product in 1905 was valued at $8,357,993, an increase of 47.2% over that in 1900.

The value of the state's factory product for 1900 was $85,274,083, and that for 1905, $142,520,776, an advance of 67.1%.

In the 13th century the Genoese had a factory here which they called Tana.

Consider the girls in a factory--never alone, hardly in their dreams.

In 1905 the total value of the factory products was $9 02, 75 8, 6 9.4% more than in 1900.

Hastings was soon released at the intercession of the Dutch resident, and made use of his position at Murshidabad to open negotiations with the English fugitives at Falta, the site of a Dutch factory near the mouth of the Hugli.

The value of the city's factory products increased from $1,300,698 in 1900 to $1,918,362 in 1905, or 47 5%.

In 1905 the value of Troy's factory product was $31,860,829.

A large working population is employed in the Royal Arsenal, which occupies a large area on the river-bank, and includes the Royal Gun Factory, Royal Carriage Department, Royal Laboratory and Building Works Department.

The one corn-mill of Nantwich was converted into a cotton factory in 1789, but was closed in 1874.

The value of the factory products increased from $375,167 in 1900 to $784,248 in 1905, or 109%.

The value of the total factory product was $57,45 1, 445 in 1905, when a little more than three-fourths was represented by lumber and timber products, cotton-seed oil and cake, and cotton goods.

The English factory was built about that year.

The value of the factory product in 1905 was $2,065,487.

In 1905 the city's factory product was valued at $8,371,618.

The cattle are destined chiefly for the saladero establishments for the preparation of tasajo, or jerked beef, for the Brazilian and Cuban markets, and for the Liebig factory, where large quantities of extract of meat are prepared for the European trade.

The total value of the city's factory product in 1905 was $1,747,338, being 31.6% more than in 1900.

The value of its "factory" products was 17.6% of the state's total in 1900 and 20.9% of the total in 1905.