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How to pronounce “factory”
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Pronunciation guide for factory
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of factory with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Robot Chickens and Virtual Farms
to ending factory farming and creating humane, sustainable,
- Definition summary
- A building or other place where manufacturing takes place. [from 17th c.]
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How to pronounce factory
Robot Chickens and Virtual Farms
to ending factory farming and creating humane, sustainable,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “factory”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A building or other place where manufacturing takes place. [from 17th c.]
- (UK, slang) A police station. [from 19th c.]
- A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
- A factory farm.
- (programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
- (attributive) The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer.
- (chiefly Scotland, now rare) The position or state of being a factor. [from 16th c.]
- (historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country. [from 16th c.]
- [Adjective]
- (colloquial, of a configuration, part, etc.) Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.
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