factory

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

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

2. isim A police station.

   “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).”

3. isim A device or process that produces or manufactures something.

   “Radio became a star factory for journalists.”

4. isim A factory farm.

   “chicken factory; pig factory”

5. isim In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.

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

6. isim The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer.

   “factory settings; factory defaults; a factory reset”

7. isim The position or state of being a factor.
8. isim A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.

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

9. isim An invoice or inventory.

   “A short factory of goods sent to Janggamay by Thomas Samuell as principal, Tho. Dryver, and another named Cheque as assistants, anno 1613 in Sciam, the which amounteth as in a long factory at large appeareth, in Sciam money unto T. 2,025 2 2½, collected into this brief as followeth: […]”

10. sıfat Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.

    “See how there's another layer of metal there? That's not factory.”