foundry Definition
foundry (fo̵un′drē)
foundry Synonyms
foundry Usage Examples
Converse of object
- establish: Darby establishes a foundry there using pig iron from the Forest of Dean.
- include: Rotary Furnaces The Holwell site was later expanded to include a foundry to cast the pig iron produced by the furnaces.
Adjective modifier
- ferrous: Ferrous metal foundries with a production capacity exceeding 20 tons per day 2.5.
- small: The site is now occupied by the Court Works industrial estate, there is still a small foundry on the site.
- own: Ultimately, he owned and operated his own foundry and kept his own books, unaided.
- local: At the age of eight George began working with his father at a local foundry.
- large: The works were all under one roof, with a large open foundry occupying perhaps a quarter of the site.
- old: Handmade by craftsmen in the country's second oldest foundry.
Modifies a noun
- sand: In recent years they have been worked for glass and foundry molding sands and they now extend over about 2 km2.
- worker: Around the 1880s the Foundry Arms Pub was built, no doubt to slake the thirst of the foundry workers.
- industry: Ray, a qualified chemist, has a senior position in the foundry industry which takes him all over the world.
- equipment: Boys ' foundry equipment Internet prank results in Fontana man's sex crime arrest.
- process: The foundry process simulation is used to predict an array of porosity related anomalies.
- building: The oldest part of the foundry building dates back to 1821.
Noun used with modifier
- wafer: This technique has also been embraced by wafer foundries and fabrication houses to produce duplicates from silicon masters, significantly saving on production costs.
- iron: He also owned an iron foundry in Castle Eden, near Hartlepool.
- brass: In the brass foundry most of the work is cast from plate molded patterns.
- silicon: However, the design capability is largely reliant on limited Far Eastern silicon foundry capacity.
- bell: Close to the railroad is the famous Taylor's bell foundry which has a museum open to the public.
- bronze: Enclosed within the area of the Sculpture Garden is a lost wax, bronze casting foundry.
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