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# industrial

«industrial» in Mova's school dictionary: **to do with factories, making goods, and industry** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (industrial)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Industrial means to do with factories, making goods, and industry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industrial/#m1)

2) An industrial place has lots of factories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industrial/#m2)

3) Industrial also describes things that are strong and large enough for factory use, like industrial machines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industrial/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history, the Industrial Revolution was when machines and factories changed how people lived and worked; children worked in mills and mines. In geography, industrial areas, industrial estates and industrial pollution are studied.

### examples

- The Industrial Revolution started in Britain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industrial/#x1)
- Smoke rose from the industrial chimneys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industrial/#x2)
- Dad works on an industrial estate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industrial/#x3)
- Industrial waste polluted the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industrial/#x4)
- They used an industrial vacuum to clean the hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industrial/#x5)
- Manchester was a great industrial city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industrial/#x6)

### note

Noun: industry. Adverb: industrially. Do not confuse with «industrious» (hard-working).

### In the corpora

- [Coal powered the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 1700s.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/11/)
- [The Industrial Revolution began in Britain around 1760, when people began making things with machines in factories instead of by hand at home.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/5/)
- [After 1868 Japan studied factories, schools and laws from other countries and built its own versions, becoming an industrial power within decades.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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