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# factory

noun (factory, factories)

«factory» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A factory is a big building where people and machines make things, like cars, toys, food or clothes. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/factory/#m2)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/factory/#x1)
- The factory has 120 workers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/factory/#x2)
- How many cars does the factory make in a week? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/factory/#x3)
- Each factory worker packs 30 boxes an hour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/factory/#x4)
- The factory makes bread for all the shops in town. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/factory/#x5)
- Smoke came out of the factory chimney. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/factory/#x6)
- We visited a cheese factory on our school trip. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/factory/#x7)
- Machines in the factory fill 60 bottles a minute. [tree →](https://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://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «factory» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/factory/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«factory» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/factory.html) on Mova free.