Foundry vs. Factory

Foundrynoun

A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.

Factorynoun

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

Foundrynoun

The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.

Factorynoun

The position or state of being a factor.

Foundrynoun

A semiconductor fabrication plant in the microelectronics industry.

Factorynoun

A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

Foundrynoun

The act, process, or art of casting metals.

Factorynoun

A device which produces or manufactures something.

Foundrynoun

The buildings and works for casting metals.

Factorynoun

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

Foundrynoun

factory where metal castings are produced

Factoryadjective

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

‘See how there's another layer of metal there? That's not factory.’;

Foundry

A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings. Metals are cast into shapes by melting them into a liquid, pouring the metal into a mold, and removing the mold material after the metal has solidified as it cools.

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.