Synonyms:
fabrication, manufacture, manufacturing
Meaning: the act of making something (a product) from raw materials; "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an improvement in the manufacture of explosives"; "manufacturing is vital to Great Britain"
Usage examples
Cotton mills, factories, and manufacturing plants would rise up as the green corn after a shower.
In this stage there is not enough manufacturing power in the community to supply much more than its own needs.
Since that time two counter forces have been at work to affect the ratio of manufacturing establishments to population.
This is shown by the fact that anterior to that time they had been the friends of manufacturing industry, without reference to its location.
During the period of our colonial existence, the policy of the British Government had been to suppress the growth of manufacturing industry.
I found that these mysterious personages, whom I had mistaken for magi, were principally authors, and were in the very act of manufacturing books.
'You can't think the smoky air of a manufacturing town, all chimneys and dirt like Milton-Northern, would be better than this air, which is pure and sweet, if it is too soft and relaxing.
It is just such a neighbourhood as the monks loved, and traces of the old Plantagenet times are to be met with everywhere, side by side with the manufacturing interests of the West Riding of to-day.
Some of the great cities of today are famous for their size, such as New York and London; some for their beauty, like Paris and Rio Janeiro; some for their culture and learning, as Boston and Oxford; some for their manufacturing and commercial supremacy, as Detroit and Liverpool.
For a long time after the formation of the "more perfect Union," but little capital was invested in manufacturing establishments; and, though in the early part of the present century the amount had considerably increased, the products were yet quite insufficient for the necessary supplies of our armies in the War of 1812.