Meaning of factory | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A building or other place where manufacturing takes place. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
3. A police station
4. A police station.
   UK, slang
5. A device or process that produces or manufactures something
6. A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
7. A factory farm
8. A factory farm.
9. In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object
10. In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
11. The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer.
    attributive
12. The position or state of being a factor.
    Scotland, archaic
13. A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
    historical

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.”

“The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.”

“History has shown that, even without cheap labor, factories run perfectly well.”

“The guys all knew each other and we were having a jolly old chinwag as we marched them out of the house in front of their stunned neighbours and into a van we had called to take them all to the Factory (police station).”

“Radio became a star factory for journalists.”

“chicken factory; pig factory”

“The task factory […] is the object that is responsible for creating instances of those tasks dynamically.”

“factory settings; factory defaults; a factory reset”

“We had here his curate, Mr. Furley, who had been nine years chaplain to the English factory at St. Petersburg […] .”

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