manufacture

Meanings

Noun

• The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.
• Anything made, formed or produced; product.
• The process of such production; generation, creation.
• A watch manufacturer that makes its own parts, rather than assembling watches from parts obtained from other firms.

Verb

• To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.
• To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use.
• To fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point.

Origin

• From Middle French manufacture, from Old French, from Medieval Latin manufatura ("a making by hand"), from manufactus, a compound of manu factus, manū being ablative of manus, and factus past participle of faciō. (compare main, manual, facture.)