Industry vs. Factory

Industrynoun

(uncountable) The tendency to work persistently. Diligence.

Industrynoun

Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.

Industrynoun

Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.

Industrynoun

The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.

Industrynoun

Automated production of material goods{{cite-web

Industrynoun

(archaeology) A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.

Industrynoun

Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; - opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them.

Industrynoun

Any department or branch of art, occupation, or business; especially, one which employs much labor and capital and is a distinct branch of trade; as, the sugar industry; the iron industry; the cotton industry.

Industrynoun

Human exertion of any kind employed for the creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of capital or wealth; labor.

Industrynoun

the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise;

Industrynoun

the organized action of making of goods and services for sale;

Industrynoun

persevering determination to perform a task;

Industrynoun

economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories

Industrynoun

a particular form or branch of economic or commercial activity

Industrynoun

an activity or domain in which a great deal of effort is expended

Industrynoun

hard work

Factorynoun

(obsolete) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.

Factorynoun

The position or state of being a factor.

Factorynoun

A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

Factorynoun

A device which produces or manufactures something.

Factorynoun

(programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.

Factoryadjective

Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.

Factorynoun

A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.

Factorynoun

The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory.

Factorynoun

A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory.

Factorynoun

a plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing

Factory

A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial site, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. They are a critical part of modern economic production, with the majority of the world's goods being created or processed within factories.