manufacture
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they manufacture | |
| he / she / it manufactures | |
| past simple manufactured | |
| past participle manufactured | |
| -ing form manufacturing |
- manufacture something
to make goods in large quantities, using machines （用机器）大量生产，成批制造 manufactured goods 工业品 This company manufactures the equipment used to make contact lenses. 这家公司生产用以制造隐形眼镜片的设备。
- manufacture something
to invent a story, an excuse, etc. 编造；捏造 a news story manufactured by an unscrupulous journalist 一个不道德的记者编造的一篇新闻报道
Extra ExamplesThe evidence against him had been largely manufactured. 对他不利的证据大部分是伪造的。 There were claims that the entire row had been manufactured by the press. 有人声称整排都是由新闻界制造的。
- manufacture something (specialist)
to produce a substance 生成，产生（一种物质）
Word Originmid 16th cent. (as noun, denoting something made by hand): from French (re-formed by association with Latin manu factum ‘made by hand’), from Italian manifattura. The verb dates from the mid 17th cent.