1.  manufacture(n = noun.act) industry - the organized action of making of goods and services for sale; "American industry is making increased use of computers to control production"
is a kind of business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise
has particulars: cottage industry, production, industrial enterprise, industrialisation, industrialization
Derived form verb manufacture₁

2.  manufacture(n = noun.act) fabrication, manufacturing - 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"
is a kind of creating from raw materials
has particulars: formation, shaping, newspeak, prefabrication
Derived form verb manufacture₁

1.  manufacture(v = verb.creation) construct, fabricate - put together out of artificial or natural components or parts; "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys"; "He manufactured a popular cereal"
is one way to make
Derived forms noun manufacture₁, noun manufacture₂, noun manufacturer₁, noun manufacturer₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

2.  manufacture(v = verb.creation) cook up, fabricate, invent, make up - make up something artificial or untrue;
is one way to concoct, dream up, hatch, think of, think up
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

3.  manufacture(v = verb.creation) - produce naturally; "this gland manufactures a specific substance only"
is one way to bring forth, produce
Sample sentences: Something ----s something

4.  manufacture(v = verb.creation) - create or produce in a mechanical way; "This novelist has been manufacturing his books following his initial success"
is one way to create, make
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

1.  The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency. [1913 Webster]

2.  Anything made from raw materials by the hand, by machinery, or by art, as cloths, iron utensils, shoes, machinery, saddlery, etc. [1913 Webster]

1.  To make (wares or other products) by hand, by machinery, or by other agency; as, to manufacture cloth, nails, glass, etc. [1913 Webster]

2.  To work, as raw or partly wrought materials, into suitable forms for use; as, to manufacture wool, cotton, silk, or iron. [1913 Webster]

   To be employed in manufacturing something. [1913 Webster]

manufacture, n. & v.
--n.
1 a the making of articles esp. in a factory etc. b a branch of an industry (woollen manufacture).
2 esp. derog. the merely mechanical production of literature, art, etc.
--v.tr.
1 make (articles), esp. on an industrial scale.
2 invent or fabricate (evidence, a story, etc.).
3 esp. derog. make or produce (literature, art, etc.) in a mechanical way.

Derivative:
manufacturable adj. manufacturability n. manufacturer n.

Etymology:
F f. It. manifattura & L manufactum made by hand

N  action, performance, doing perpetration, exercise, excitation, movement, operation, evolution, work, labor, praxis, execution, procedure, handicraft, business, agency, deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow, coup, coup de main, coup d'etat, tour de force, feat, exploit, achievement, handiwork, workmanship, manufacture, stroke of policy, actor, doing, acting, in action, in harness, on duty, in operation, in the act, in the midst of, in the thick of, red-handed, in flagrante delicto, while one's hand is in, action is eloquence, actions speak louder than words, actum aiunt ne agas, awake, arise, or be forever fall'n, dii pia facta vident, faire sans dire, fare fac, fronte capillata post est occasio calva, our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts, the great end of life is not knowledge but action, thought is the soul of act, vivre-ce nest pas respirer c'est agir, we live in deeds not years.

N  production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.

VB  produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture, weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel, build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute, achieve, accomplish, flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle, bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world, make productive, create, beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate, procreate, progenerate, propagate, engender, bring into being, call into being, bring into existence, breed, hatch, develop, bring up, induce, superinduce, suscitate, cause, acquire.