Factory vs. Warehouse — What's the Difference?

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.

A warehouse is a building for storing goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc.

A building or group of buildings in which goods are manufactured; a plant.

A large building where raw materials or manufactured goods may be stored prior to their distribution for sale.

See factory ship.

Store (goods) in a warehouse

A business establishment for commercial agents or factors in a foreign country.

Place (a prisoner or a psychiatric patient) in a large, impersonal institution in which their problems are not satisfactorily addressed

The source of prolific production

A place in which goods or merchandise are stored; a storehouse.

The position or state of being a factor.

A large, usually wholesale shop.

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

To place or store in a warehouse, especially in a bonded or government warehouse.

A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

To institutionalize (a person) in usually deficient housing and in conditions in which medical, educational, psychiatric, and social services are below par or absent

A police station.

A place for storing large amounts of products. In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.

A device or process that produces or manufactures something.

(transitive) To store in a warehouse or similar.

A factory farm.

(transitive) To confine (a person) to an institution for a long period.

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

To acquire and then shelve, simply to prevent competitors from acquiring it.

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

A storehouse for wares, or goods.

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

To deposit or secure in a warehouse.

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

To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.

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.

A storehouse for goods and merchandise

A plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing

Store in a warehouse