factory
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Is factory a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (UK, slang) A police station.Examples: "The guys all knew each other and we were having a jolly old chinwag as we marched them out of the house in front of their stunned neighbours and into a van we had called to take them all to the Factory (police station)."UKslang
2. (programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.Examples: "The task factory […] is the object that is responsible for creating instances of those tasks dynamically."
3. (attributive) The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer.Examples: "factory settings; factory defaults; a factory reset"attributive
4. (chiefly Scotland, now rare) The position or state of being a factor.Scotlandarchaic
5. (historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.Examples: "We had here his curate, Mr. Furley, who had been nine years chaplain to the English factory at St. Petersburg […] ."historical
adj (English)
1. (colloquial, of a configuration, part, etc.) Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.Examples: "See how there's another layer of metal there? That's not factory."colloquialnot-comparableusually
Definition source: Wiktionary