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# factory

«factory» in Mova's school dictionary: **a big building where people and machines make things…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (factory, factories)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A factory is a big building where people and machines make things, like cars, toys, food or clothes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/factory/#m1)

2) Many things are made in a factory one after another on a line, called a production line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/factory/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a place that makes things at a rate: items per hour or per day; total = rate × time. In history and science: factories began in the Industrial Revolution and can cause pollution. Everyday life: a toy factory, a chocolate factory, factory workers. In stories: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Phrases: factory worker, factory floor, made in a factory, factory line.

### examples

- A factory makes 250 toys a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/factory/#x1)
- The factory has 120 workers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/factory/#x2)
- How many cars does the factory make in a week? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/factory/#x3)
- Each factory worker packs 30 boxes an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/factory/#x4)
- The factory makes bread for all the shops in town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/factory/#x5)
- Smoke came out of the factory chimney. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/factory/#x6)
- We visited a cheese factory on our school trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/factory/#x7)
- Machines in the factory fill 60 bottles a minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/factory/#x8)
- And the Mexican lapdog barked all the time, till the church bells tinkled, and the chimney of the apple factory rocked again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/factory/#x9)

### note

Plural «factories» (y changes to ies). Usually a rate: total = rate × time. Trap: a working week may have 5 days, not 7; read the problem. Trap: two machines together make the sum of their rates.

### In the corpora

- [Shops, hospitals, buses and factories need people at all hours, so their workers follow a rota that can change every week.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/1/)
- [Many moths rest still on trees looking like bark, and when factory soot darkened trees, dark moths survived better than pale ones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/11/)
- [A leaf is a tiny food factory.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air/0/)
- [The leftover from the factory is oxygen, the gas we breathe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air/4/)
- [Things can be sorted by size, shape or colour; factory machines use cameras to sort beans or nuts very fast.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «factory» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/factory/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.