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fac·tory (fak′tə rē; often fak′trē)
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
factory
n.
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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Converse of object
- pollute: Elsewhere a video group in India produced a film which led to the closure of a polluting factory.
Adjective modifier
- chocolate: It was worse than being in a chocolate factory!
Modifies a noun
- farming: His repeated warnings about the threats to human health from factory farming have never been denied by his former employer.
Noun used with modifier
- munitions: The Joint Venture wants to record a history of the area, including the munitions factory.
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Which is more musical, a truck passing bya factory or a truck passing by a music school?
In manufacture and in handicrafts, the worker uses a tool; in the factory, he serves a machine.
In the factory, we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.
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