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We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again.
James Douglas

Meaning of "factories" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FACTORIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FACTORIES

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Factories is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FACTORIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

factories

Factory

A factory or manufacturing plant is an industrial site, usually consisting of buildings and machinery, or more commonly a complex having several buildings, where workers manufacture goods or operate machines processing one product into another. Factories arose with the introduction of machinery during the Industrial Revolution when the capital and space requirements became too great for cottage industry or workshops. Early factories that contained small amounts of machinery, such as one or two spinning mules, and fewer than a dozen workers have been called "glorified workshops". Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production. Large factories tend to be located with access to multiple modes of transportation, with some having rail, highway and water loading and unloading facilities. Factories may either make discrete products or some type of material continuously produced such as chemicals, pulp and paper, or refined oil products.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FACTORIES

factor cost
factor in
factor of production
factor of safety
factor VIII
factorability
factorable
factorage
factorial
factorially
factoring
factorisation
factorise
factorization
factorize
factorship
factory
Factory Acts
factory chimney
factory farm

WORDS THAT END LIKE FACTORIES

accessories
advisories
calories
categories
countries
directories
dormitories
French Southern and Antarctic Territories
glories
histories
inventories
laboratories
memories
Northwest Territories
repositories
stories
territories
theories
Tories
trajectories
victories

Synonyms and antonyms of factories in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FACTORIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «factories» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of factories

Translation of «factories» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FACTORIES

Find out the translation of factories to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of factories from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «factories» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

工厂
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fábricas
570 millions of speakers

English

factories
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कारखानों
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المصانع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

заводы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fábricas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কারখানা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

usines
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kilang-kilang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Fabriken
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

工場
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

공장
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pabrik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhà máy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தொழிற்சாலைகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कारखाने
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

fabrikalar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fabbriche
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

fabryki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

заводи
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fabrici
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εργοστάσια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

fabrieke
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fabriker
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fabrikker
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of factories

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FACTORIES»

The term «factories» is very widely used and occupies the 16.538 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FACTORIES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about factories

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10 QUOTES WITH «FACTORIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word factories.
1
Gianni Agnelli
The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.
2
Ed Bradley
My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
3
Eduard Buchner
We are seeing the cells of plants and animals more and more clearly as chemical factories, where the various products are manufactured in separate workshops.
4
Karel Capek
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
5
Thomas Carper
That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.
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James Douglas
We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again.
7
K. Eric Drexler
If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.
8
Bob Feller
There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.
9
Kevin A. Ford
I enjoy going out to the plants, the factories where just some sub-element maybe of the orbiter or the space station is built. Those people take such pride in that component, and they build it to perfection, and it's just a pleasure to see that.
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Janet Frame
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FACTORIES»

Discover the use of factories in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to factories and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Animal Factories
A provocative examination of the mass-production method of raising animals studies the effects of overcrowding, poor nutrition, drugs, artificial insemination, and lack of exercise on animals bred for consumption
Jim Mason, Peter Singer, 1990
2
Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, ...
This new edition has been completely updated, and contains an entirely new chapter detailing the numerous revelations that have surfaced since the book's initial publication in 1994.
Sheldon H. Harris, 2002
3
Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in ...
"A masterpiece. . . . Two months after the publication of The Grapes of Wrath, Little, Brown issued the second controversial California documentary of 1939, Factories in the Field. . .
Carey McWilliams, 1939
4
Work Places: The Psychology of the Physical Environment in ...
Discusses the research and theory concerning the physical surroundings that affect people in offices and factories.
Eric Sundstrom, Mary Graehl Sundstrom, 1986
5
Practical Software Factories in .NET
This book was written in order to demystify the software factories paradigm by guiding you through a practical case study, from the early conception phase of building a software factory to delivering a ready-made software product.
Gunther Lenz, Christoph Wienands, 2006
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Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, ...
Featuring an example introduced in the first chapter and revisited throughout the book, the authors explain such topics as: Chronic problems that object orientation has not been able to overcome, and critical innovations that solve them How ...
Jack Greenfield, Keith Short, 2004
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Manhood Factories: YMCA Architecture and the Making of ...
In Manhood Factories, Paula Lupkin goes behind the reserved Beaux-Arts facades of typical YMCA buildings constructed in this period to understand the urban anxieties, moral agendas, and conceptions of masculinity that guided their design, ...
Paula Lupkin, 2010
8
Start-up Factories: High Performance Management, Job ...
This book gives the findings of a concise study of start-up factories in the United States by Japanese companies.
Peter B. Doeringer, Christine Evans-Klock, David G. Terkla, 2002
9
Fields, Factories, and Workshops
This volume will be on continuing interest to historians, economists, sociologists, and labor studies specialists.
Pëtr A. Kropotkin, 1992
10
Schools Into Fields and Factories: Anarchists, the ...
Under the slogan “Turn schools into fields and factories, fields and factories into schools,” the university attempted to bridge the gap between intellectual and manual labor that its founders saw as a central problem of capitalism, and ...
Ming K. Chan, Arif Dirlik, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FACTORIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term factories is used in the context of the following news items.
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Environment Ministry indicts three Israel Oil Refineries factories
The Environmental Protection Ministry issued indictments on Thursday against three factories owned by Israel Oil Refineries Ltd., also known ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
2
Cut water supply to liquor factories by 15 per cent: Dhananjay Munde
"There is a large number of alcohol-manufacturing factories located in Aurangabad. These units are the ones that consume largest amount of ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
3
Russian-Egyptian Natural Gas Deal Saves Factories From Industry …
However, little has been communicated about the means to such achievement, including how it meant depriving many Egyptian factories of the ... «Egyptian Streets, Jul 15»
4
$50 million funding from IFC to improve safety in Bangladesh …
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has announced a programme to provide $50 million (£32.5 million) of finance to garment factories ... «Supply Management, Jul 15»
5
More than 900 jobs under threat at Young's Seafood factories in …
TWO of the firm's factories in the north of Scotland could be axed after the company lost a contract to supply salmon to Sainsbury's. «Scottish Daily Record, Jul 15»
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2 ketchup factories raided, sealed | Meerut NYOOOZ
MEERUT: The food department raided two ketchup factories on Garh road and Jagriti Vihar on Thursday and seized massive stocks before ... «NYOOOZ, Jul 15»
7
Africa Should Lure Bangladesh's Garment Industry
Then the workers move into higher-wage jobs, the factories move to a lower-wage locale, and everyone enjoys a higher income through the ... «Bloomberg View, Jul 15»
8
Mixed findings for Cambodia textile factories
PHNOM PENH - Cambodia's garment manufacturers showed a slight increase in compliance with international labour standards in the past ... «Ecotextile News, Jul 15»
9
Schools: 'dumbing down' factories that create obedient and state …
Schools function as the original 'dumbing down' factories and the results are for all to see. In the classical age, informal academies (more like ... «The Nation, Jul 15»
10
Jobless Claims Jump As Auto Factories Retool
But most analysts attribute the spike to retooling of automaker factories. That's widely expected but not easy to account for in the Labor ... «Investor's Business Daily, Jul 15»

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