Foundry
noun
A factory where metals are melted and shaped into different objects.
They make car parts at the foundry.
Often appears as...
- iron foundry
- steel foundry
noun
The skill or activity of making things out of metal in a foundry.
He works in foundry designing and manufacturing metal parts.
Often appears as...
- foundry work
- foundry process
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Technical
noun
A factory where metals are melted and shaped into different objects.
They make car parts at the foundry.
Often appears as...
- iron foundry
- steel foundry
noun
The skill or activity of making things out of metal in a foundry.
He works in foundry designing and manufacturing metal parts.
Often appears as...
- foundry work
- foundry process
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Industry Specific
Foundry is used mainly in an industrial context for places making metal products.
I visited a foundry where they cast airplane engines.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Location
A foundry refers to the actual building or space where the metal work is done.
The old foundry has been converted into an art gallery.
Pro Tip 3/3Heat and Fire
Foundries involve high heat, furnaces or forges, suggesting a harsh, hot environment.
The foundry workers wore protective gear against the intense heat.
Pro Tip 1/3Industry Specific
Foundry is used mainly in an industrial context for places making metal products.
I visited a foundry where they cast airplane engines.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Location
A foundry refers to the actual building or space where the metal work is done.
The old foundry has been converted into an art gallery.
Pro Tip 3/3Heat and Fire
Foundries involve high heat, furnaces or forges, suggesting a harsh, hot environment.
The foundry workers wore protective gear against the intense heat.
Pro Tip 1/3Industry Specific
Foundry is used mainly in an industrial context for places making metal products.
I visited a foundry where they cast airplane engines.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Location
A foundry refers to the actual building or space where the metal work is done.
The old foundry has been converted into an art gallery.
Pro Tip 3/3Heat and Fire
Foundries involve high heat, furnaces or forges, suggesting a harsh, hot environment.
The foundry workers wore protective gear against the intense heat.
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Video examples
Adam Savage: My...
but befriended through some prop deals, was the manager of a local foundry. He took my master Falcon pattern, he actually did lost wax casting in bronze for me, and this is the bronze I got back. And this is, after some acid etching, the one that I ended up with. And this thing, it's deeply, deeply satisfying to me.
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Training Critical...
attitude of wanting to bring their engineers start foundries there they found themselves that nobody was behind what they were manufacturing it gets better than that
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Adam Savage: My...
but befriended through some prop deals, was the manager of a local foundry. He took my master Falcon pattern, he actually did lost wax casting in bronze for me, and this is the bronze I got back. And this is, after some acid etching, the one that I ended up with. And this thing, it's deeply, deeply satisfying to me.
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Training Critical...
attitude of wanting to bring their engineers start foundries there they found themselves that nobody was behind what they were manufacturing it gets better than that
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Quote examples
Tracey Emin
English Artist
In New York, working at the foundry, I was making these little figures. I desperately would like to make big figures, but I just can't do it; my hands don't do it. We were talking about making bronze plinths, and then we made one, a square one. I wrote on it, then I put a little figure on top, and it just looked really good. It worked.
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Bob Mortimer
English Comedian
I worked in a chicken factory, in a steel foundry, I worked on the bins for a year or so. It started as a summer job, but I stayed on because I liked it very much. I liked it that it made you very fit, doing all the lifting and that, so I could wear short-sleeved t-shirts, which I'd never been able to do before!
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Rose Schneiderman
Polish Activist
Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.
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Lenny Henry
British Actor
My dad, Winston, didn't say much. He was a very reluctant man. He came home from working at the foundry every day and then he'd go to the bookies, watch cricket on TV or go to the pub. He was like a Victorian dad, really. He didn't have much to do with us kids.
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James Nasmyth
Scottish Inventor
Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.
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Richard MacDonald
American Sculptor
I do everything. Of course, I have 50 people who work for me to do the drudgery of mold making and all the foundry. This is an enormous task. But every stroke in these sculptures is from my hands.
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Maya Lin
American Architect
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.
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Martin McGuinness
Irish Politician
They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother.
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Rose Schneiderman
Polish Activist
We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.
Quote examples
Tracey Emin
English Artist
In New York, working at the foundry, I was making these little figures. I desperately would like to make big figures, but I just can't do it; my hands don't do it. We were talking about making bronze plinths, and then we made one, a square one. I wrote on it, then I put a little figure on top, and it just looked really good. It worked.
Quote examples
Bob Mortimer
English Comedian
I worked in a chicken factory, in a steel foundry, I worked on the bins for a year or so. It started as a summer job, but I stayed on because I liked it very much. I liked it that it made you very fit, doing all the lifting and that, so I could wear short-sleeved t-shirts, which I'd never been able to do before!
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Rose Schneiderman
Polish Activist
Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.
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Lenny Henry
British Actor
My dad, Winston, didn't say much. He was a very reluctant man. He came home from working at the foundry every day and then he'd go to the bookies, watch cricket on TV or go to the pub. He was like a Victorian dad, really. He didn't have much to do with us kids.
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James Nasmyth
Scottish Inventor
Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.
Quote examples
Richard MacDonald
American Sculptor
I do everything. Of course, I have 50 people who work for me to do the drudgery of mold making and all the foundry. This is an enormous task. But every stroke in these sculptures is from my hands.
Quote examples
Maya Lin
American Architect
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.
Quote examples
Martin McGuinness
Irish Politician
They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother.
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Rose Schneiderman
Polish Activist
We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.
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