Definition of: manufacture

(man′yə·fak′chər) v.t. ·tured, ·tur·ing
1. To make or fashion by hand or machinery, especially in large quantities.
2. To work into useful form, as wool or steel.
3. To create by artifice; invent falsely; concoct.
4. To produce in a mechanical way, as art, poetry, etc. See synonyms under MAKE¹, PRODUCE.
—noun
1. The production of goods by hand or by industrial art or processes.
2. Anything made by industrial art or processes; manufactured articles collectively.
3. The making or contriving of anything. [<MF <Med. L manufactura <L manus hand + factura a making <factus, pp. of facere make]
—man′u·fac′tur·er noun
—man′u·fac′tur·ing adjective