n. | 1. | The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency. |
2. | Anything made from raw materials by the hand, by machinery, or by art, as cloths, iron utensils, shoes, machinery, saddlery, etc. | |
v. t. | 1. | To make (wares or other products) by hand, by machinery, or by other agency; |
2. | To work, as raw or partly wrought materials, into suitable forms for use; | |
v. i. | 1. | To be employed in manufacturing something. |
Noun | 1. | ![]() Synonyms: industry |
2. | manufacture - the act of making something (a product) from raw materials; "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an improvement in the manufacture of explosives"; "manufacturing is vital to Great Britain" Synonyms: fabrication | |
Verb | 1. | manufacture - put together out of components or parts; "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys" |
2. | manufacture - make up something artificial or untrue |
MANUFACTURE. This word is used in the English and American patent laws. This term includes two classes of things; first, all machinery which is to be used and is not the object of sale; and, secondly, substances (such, for example, as medicines) formed by chemical processes, when the vendible substance is the thing produced, and that which operates preserves no permanent form. In the first class, the machine, and, in the second the substance produced, is the subject of the patent. 2 H. Bl. 492. See 8 T. R. 99; 2 B. & A. 349; Day. Pat. Cas. 278; Webst. on Pat. 8; Phil. on Pat. 77; Perp. Manuel des Inv. c. 2, s. 1; Renouard, c. 5, s. 1; Westminster Review, No. 44, April 1835, p. 247; 1 Bell's Com., B. 1, part 2, c. 4, s. 1, p. 110, 6th ed.
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