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語源

From Middle French manufacture, from Old French, from Medieval Latin manūfactūra (“a making by hand”), from manūfactus, a compound of manū factus, manū being ablative of manus (“hand”), and factus past participle of faciō (“to do, make”).

Compare manual, facture.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌmænjuˈfækt͡ʃɚ/, /ˌmænjəˈfækt͡ʃɚ/, /ˌmænəˈfækt͡ʃɚ/
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌmanjʊˈfaktʃə/, /ˌmanjəˈfaktʃə/, /ˌmanɪˈfaktʃə/
• ハイフネーション: man‧u‧fac‧ture
• 韻: -æktʃə(ɹ)

名詞

manufacture (plural manufactures)

1. The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.
   • 2009 April 3, Olivia Feld, “New gum could mean sticky end for mess”, in CNN.com‎:

     After years of exporting the gum base to be used as an ingredient in the manufacture of regular chewing gum, the cooperative recently decided to start making its own gum using only chicle gum base and natural flavorings and sweeteners

2. Anything made, formed or produced; product.
   • 1727, Jonathan Swift, A Short View of the State of Ireland:

     The roads [are] crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures.

   • 1853, Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences, page 133:

     Thus, a patented manufacture should be either better in quality or cheaper in cost than that which it is intended to supplant.

3. (figuratively) The process of such production; generation, creation.
   • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:

     Our lawgivers take special pride in the ever active manufacture of new bills and laws.

4. (horology) A watch manufacturer that makes its own parts, rather than assembling watches from parts obtained from other firms.

関連する語

• manufact
• manufactory

動詞

manufacture (third-person singular simple present manufactures, present participle manufacturing, simple past and past participle manufactured)

1. To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.
   • 2008 July 23, Michael Brooks, “Comment: It's time for the Vatican to accept IVF”, in New Scientist‎, archived from the original on 13 April 2016:

     Scientists are learning how to manufacture sperm and egg cells from other types of cell; others are developing "alternative" wombs

   • 2022 May 9, Eleni Tsangouri et al., “Reservoir-Vascular Tubes Network for Self-Healing Concrete: Performance Analysis by Acoustic Emission, Digital Image Correlation and Ultrasound Velocity”, in Applied Sciences‎, volume 12, number 10, →DOI, archived from the original on 18 April 2025:

     An effort was made to fit the flexible tube at least 3 mm deep onto the vasculature; (2) for the remaining systems, 3D-printed polyethylene terephthalate (PET) reservoir blocks were manufactured by PrintPlace using FDM technology. The additively manufactured PET reservoir blocks were previously applied and proven to effectively circulate the agent through the healing network [6].

2. (transitive) To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use.

   to manufacture wool into blankets

   • 2021 January 5, Peter Foster, “Peter Foster: Sustainable Newspeak by 2050”, in Financial Post‎, archived from the original on 31 March 2021:

     The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words.

3. (derogatory) To fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point.

   The collegian keeps manufacturing new excuses for their tardiness.

   • 2000 December 10, Daniel Zalewski, “The Misinformation Age”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 19 April 2022:

     Digital technology has made it so easy to manufacture lies that it's become difficult to separate fact from fiction.

関連する語

• machinofacture
• manufacturer

派生語

参照

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “manufacture”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “manufacture”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.