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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manufacturing plant |
| Synonyms: | branch, cooperative, firm, forge, foundry, industry, laboratory, machine shop, manufactory, mill, mint, salt mines, shop, sweatshop, warehouse, workroom, works, workshop |
| Main Entry: | machinery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devices performing work |
| Synonyms: | accouterment, agency, agent, apparatus, appliance, channel, contraption, contrivance, engine, equipment, gadget, gear, habiliments, implement, instrument, materiel, means, mechanism, medium, method, motor, organ, outfit, paraphernalia, shifts, structure, system, tackle, tool, utensil, vehicle, works |
| Main Entry: | mechanism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | machine, device |
| Synonyms: | apparatus, appliance, black box, components, contrivance, doohickey, gadget, gears, gimmick, innards, instrument, machinery, motor, structure, system, tool, workings, works |
| Main Entry: | mill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | factory |
| Synonyms: | foundry, manufactory, plant, shop, sweatshop, works |
| Main Entry: | plant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | factory and its buildings, equipment |
| Synonyms: | apparatus, forge, foundry, gear, machinery, manufactory, mill, shop, works, yard |
| Main Entry: | sum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | total |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, all, amount, body, bulk, entirety, entity, epitome, gross, integral, mass, quantity, reckoning, résumé, score, structure, sum total, summary, summation, synopsis, system, tally, totality, value, whole, works*, worth |
| Antonyms: | fraction, part |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ball of wax |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the whole kit and caboodle |
| Synonyms: | everything but the kitchen sink, full monty, nine yards, shebang, show, state of affairs, the whole shebang, whole works, works |
| Main Entry: | public service |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | government employment or appointment |
| Synonyms: | benevolences, civil service, good works, philanthropies, public life, works |
| Main Entry: | whole caboodle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | whole works |
| Synonyms: | all of it, full measure, full monty, kit and caboodle, limit, whole ball of was, whole bit, whole deal, whole hog, whole kit and boodle, whole kit and caboodle, whole mess, whole nine yards, whole shebang, whole shooting match, whole show, whole shtick, works |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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