Manufactured

How to spell manufactured

12 letters · 4 syllables

How to pronounce manufactured

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does manufactured mean?

1. verbProduced goods or materials, usually in large quantities using machinery.
2. adjectiveMade artificially or industrially, rather than occurring naturally or genuinely.

Manufactured in a sentence

• verb

  The company manufactured thousands of components last quarter.

• adjective

  The report dismissed the scandal as a manufactured outrage.

• verb

  The engine parts were manufactured at a plant in the north.

• adjective

  Manufactured housing can be assembled far more cheaply than a traditional build.

Where does manufactured come from?

Language of origin: Latin

This word traces back to the Latin manus, meaning 'hand', combined with factura, 'a making', from the verb facere, 'to make or do'. The original Latin sense literally described something made by hand, which is the opposite of how we use it today for goods churned out by machines in factories. English took the word in the late 1500s through French manufacture, at first meaning the making of articles by hand or on a small scale. As the Industrial Revolution arrived, the meaning shifted from skilled handwork to large-scale mechanical production. The same facere root sits inside a huge family of English words such as 'factory', 'manufacture', 'fact', and 'effect', and remembering that manu (hand) plus fact (make) gives 'made by hand' helps fix the central -fact- spelling.

How the word is built

• manu- (hand)
• fact (from facere: to make or do)
• -ure (noun/process)
• -ed (past tense/participle)