Synonyms of the word foundry


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foundry

  • n. A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products…
  • n. The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.
  • n. A semiconductor fabrication plant in the microelectronics industry.

factory

  • n. (obsolete) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
  • n. (now rare) The position or state of being a factor.
  • n. A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
  • n. A device which produces or manufactures something.
  • n. (programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.

manufactory

  • n. A manufacturing process; a particular industry or part of an industry.
  • n. A plant where something is manufactured; a factory.
  • adj. (obsolete) Relating to manufacture.

metalworks

  • n. plural of metalwork.
  • n. A factory where metal is processed.

mill

  • n. A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
  • n. The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
  • n. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure…
  • n. A machine for grinding and polishing.
  • n. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
  • n. A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
  • n. A building housing such a plant.
  • n. (figuratively) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation routinely, such as a divorce…
  • n. (figuratively) An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised.
  • n. (informal) An engine.
  • n. (informal) A boxing match, fistfight.
  • n. (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of…
  • n. (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
  • n. (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
  • n. A milling cutter.
  • n. A treadmill.
  • n. (Can we verify([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +]) this sense?) (trading card…
  • n. An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
  • n. One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
  • v. (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
  • v. (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
  • v. (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such…
  • v. (intransitive, followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.
  • v. (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
  • v. (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.
  • v. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
  • v. (transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
  • v. (transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
  • v. (intransitive) To undergo hulling.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.
  • v. (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
  • v. (trading card games) To place cards into the discard pile directly from the draw pile.
  • n. A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.

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