factory
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 →
2) Many things are made in a factory one after another on a line, called a production line. tree →
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 →
- The factory has 120 workers. tree →
- How many cars does the factory make in a week? tree →
- Each factory worker packs 30 boxes an hour. tree →
- The factory makes bread for all the shops in town. tree →
- Smoke came out of the factory chimney. tree →
- We visited a cheese factory on our school trip. tree →
- Machines in the factory fill 60 bottles a minute. tree →
- And the Mexican lapdog barked all the time, till the church bells tinkled, and the chimney of the apple factory rocked again. tree →
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.
- Many moths rest still on trees looking like bark, and when factory soot darkened trees, dark moths survived better than pale ones.
- A leaf is a tiny food factory.
- The leftover from the factory is oxygen, the gas we breathe.
- Things can be sorted by size, shape or colour; factory machines use cameras to sort beans or nuts very fast.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «factory» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.