What does manufacture mean?
Word: Manufacture
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Manufacture means to make goods in large numbers, usually with machines in a factory.
Synonyms: make, build
How do you spell manufacture?
Syllables: man - u - fac - ture
Tricky part: The ending is ture, as in picture, though it is said like chur.
Watch out for: manufactur, manufacher, manufakture
Memory tip: A factory is where goods are manufactured. Spot the word fact in both of them and the middle is done.
Manufacture in a sentence
Example 1: This factory in Germany manufactures car parts.
Example 2: Which company manufactured your school shoes?
Example 3: Some towns in Punjab manufacture sports goods.
Fun Fact
Manufacture comes from Latin words meaning made by hand. Today it nearly always means the opposite: goods made by machines.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
manufacture
a) deliver
b) design
c) produce
d) repair
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c) produce. A factory may design, repair or deliver goods too, but to manufacture is to produce them.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
That company in Ludhiana makes bicycles and plans to manifacture scooters next year.
a) bicycles
b) scooters
c) company
d) manifacture
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d) manifacture. The vowel after man is u, from the Latin manu, by hand.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
rtacaunefmu
a) furniture
b) manufacture
c) manufacturer
d) magnificent
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b) manufacture. Manufacturer needs one more r than the jumble gives.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) industry
b) manufacture
c) facktory
d) machinery
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c) facktory. Factory has a plain c before the t; the other three are correct.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A factory that manufactures shoes ____.
a) only sells them
b) repairs old ones
c) only designs them
d) makes them in large numbers
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d) makes them in large numbers
2. Which of these is usually manufactured?
a) a seashell
b) a plastic bucket
c) a pebble
d) a mango
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b) a plastic bucket
