Factory
noun
A building or group of buildings where products are made.
I work in a car factory.
Often appears as...
- factory worker
- factory production
noun
A person or enterprise that regularly produces certain commodities.
He is a factory of new ideas for the project.
Often appears as...
- idea factory
- joke factory
noun
In computing, a factory is a kind of function that is used in object-oriented programming.
The factory function returns objects of varying prototype or class.
Often appears as...
- factory function
- factory method
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Technical
noun
A building or group of buildings where products are made.
I work in a car factory.
Often appears as...
- factory worker
- factory production
noun
A person or enterprise that regularly produces certain commodities.
He is a factory of new ideas for the project.
Often appears as...
- idea factory
- joke factory
noun
In computing, a factory is a kind of function that is used in object-oriented programming.
The factory function returns objects of varying prototype or class.
Often appears as...
- factory function
- factory method
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Location Specific
Factories are often outside city centers due to size and noise.
The biscuit factory is located in the industrial zone.
Pro Tip 2/3Associated Workers
People working in factories are usually called factory workers or laborers.
My uncle has been a factory worker for 20 years.
Pro Tip 3/3Product Variety
Factories often specialize in one type of product.
This factory produces only organic dairy products.
Pro Tip 1/3Location Specific
Factories are often outside city centers due to size and noise.
The biscuit factory is located in the industrial zone.
Pro Tip 2/3Associated Workers
People working in factories are usually called factory workers or laborers.
My uncle has been a factory worker for 20 years.
Pro Tip 3/3Product Variety
Factories often specialize in one type of product.
This factory produces only organic dairy products.
Pro Tip 1/3Location Specific
Factories are often outside city centers due to size and noise.
The biscuit factory is located in the industrial zone.
Pro Tip 2/3Associated Workers
People working in factories are usually called factory workers or laborers.
My uncle has been a factory worker for 20 years.
Pro Tip 3/3Product Variety
Factories often specialize in one type of product.
This factory produces only organic dairy products.
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What does the liver do?...
or isolates it and whisks it away, channeling it through the kidneys and intestine to be excreted. Of course, we wouldn't consider the liver a factory if it didn't also manufacture things. This organ makes everything from various blood plasma proteins that transport fatty acids and help form blood clots,
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Nature's smallest...
that repeatedly reuse and rebuild ingredients crafting as much as possible out of the planet's available resources. Such as that sugar, built using raw sunlight and carbon converted in plant factories to become the energy that powers you and keeps the cycles revolving in your own life.
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How To Levitate PIPE The...
this could become a feasible reality. Or how about a factory production line where component parts can be moved around seamlessly on a bed of sound, so there's no manipulation, no hands and no tools? A real-life sonic screwdriver could be closer than you think.
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Elon Musk talks Twitter,...
went bankrupt and i i think you have said that part of the reason for that was that you overestimated the extent to which it was possible at that time to automate a a factory a huge amount was spent kind of over automating and it didn't work
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Self-assembly: The power...
Imagine if our factories were more like organisms or brains and our construction sites were like gardens that grow and adapt independently. The possibilities are endless and it's now up to us to design a better world through self assembly.
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Factory to the World PIPE...
Back then, China's most valued asset was cheap labor, and so they became a factory to the world, growing their economy 70-fold in less than four decades. Think about that. Nothing like it has happened before in the history of mankind.
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Confronting big waves PIPE...
I began my mission to basically make surfing my job and what I did is I got a job in a circle factory I worked in a surf shop I became a lifeguard and worked on the beach and this all enabled me to travel every winter and it was
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The life cycle of a...
Technologies are now so advanced in some countries that the entire process of growing and producing fabric barely touches a human hand. But only up until this point. After the finished cloth travels to factories,
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When The World Gets 1℃...
to power our energy generation to heat our homes to drive our factories to power our cars and our trains and travel around the world and when we burn fossil fuels
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The Unsinkable Lizard PIPE...
into one thriving living system one of the greatest rain factories on earth is the amazon rainforest life here is not without challenges
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What does the liver do?...
or isolates it and whisks it away, channeling it through the kidneys and intestine to be excreted. Of course, we wouldn't consider the liver a factory if it didn't also manufacture things. This organ makes everything from various blood plasma proteins that transport fatty acids and help form blood clots,
Video examples
Nature's smallest...
that repeatedly reuse and rebuild ingredients crafting as much as possible out of the planet's available resources. Such as that sugar, built using raw sunlight and carbon converted in plant factories to become the energy that powers you and keeps the cycles revolving in your own life.
Video examples
How To Levitate PIPE The...
this could become a feasible reality. Or how about a factory production line where component parts can be moved around seamlessly on a bed of sound, so there's no manipulation, no hands and no tools? A real-life sonic screwdriver could be closer than you think.
Video examples
Elon Musk talks Twitter,...
went bankrupt and i i think you have said that part of the reason for that was that you overestimated the extent to which it was possible at that time to automate a a factory a huge amount was spent kind of over automating and it didn't work
Video examples
Self-assembly: The power...
Imagine if our factories were more like organisms or brains and our construction sites were like gardens that grow and adapt independently. The possibilities are endless and it's now up to us to design a better world through self assembly.
Video examples
Factory to the World PIPE...
Back then, China's most valued asset was cheap labor, and so they became a factory to the world, growing their economy 70-fold in less than four decades. Think about that. Nothing like it has happened before in the history of mankind.
Video examples
Confronting big waves PIPE...
I began my mission to basically make surfing my job and what I did is I got a job in a circle factory I worked in a surf shop I became a lifeguard and worked on the beach and this all enabled me to travel every winter and it was
Video examples
The life cycle of a...
Technologies are now so advanced in some countries that the entire process of growing and producing fabric barely touches a human hand. But only up until this point. After the finished cloth travels to factories,
Video examples
When The World Gets 1℃...
to power our energy generation to heat our homes to drive our factories to power our cars and our trains and travel around the world and when we burn fossil fuels
Video examples
The Unsinkable Lizard PIPE...
into one thriving living system one of the greatest rain factories on earth is the amazon rainforest life here is not without challenges
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Patti Smith
American Musician
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people's tax returns.
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Rory McIlroy
Irish Golfer
My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory.
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Philip Green
British Businessman
You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds of factories around the world, and the question is: 'Where is everything?' And how do you bring it all together?
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Zainab Salbi
Iraqi Activist
Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?
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Ray Bradbury
American Writer
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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Olivier Martinez
French Actor
And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.
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Keir Starmer
British Politician
My background is not typical of a lawyer or a DPP. My dad was a toolmaker before he retired, so he worked in a factory all his life.
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Hector Bellerin
Spanish Athlete
My mom and grandma have made clothes their whole life. My grandma had her own factory.
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Patrice Evra
French Athlete
Manchester United is a factory workers' club. You have to respect that culture.
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Trixie Mattel
American Entertainer
I want to look otherworldly, like I was made in a factory.
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Patti Smith
American Musician
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people's tax returns.
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Rory McIlroy
Irish Golfer
My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory.
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Philip Green
British Businessman
You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds of factories around the world, and the question is: 'Where is everything?' And how do you bring it all together?
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Zainab Salbi
Iraqi Activist
Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?
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Ray Bradbury
American Writer
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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Olivier Martinez
French Actor
And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.
Quote examples
Keir Starmer
British Politician
My background is not typical of a lawyer or a DPP. My dad was a toolmaker before he retired, so he worked in a factory all his life.
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Hector Bellerin
Spanish Athlete
My mom and grandma have made clothes their whole life. My grandma had her own factory.
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Patrice Evra
French Athlete
Manchester United is a factory workers' club. You have to respect that culture.
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Trixie Mattel
American Entertainer
I want to look otherworldly, like I was made in a factory.
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