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1. The act of making something (a product) from raw materials
   "manufacturing is vital to Great Britain";
   - fabrication, manufacture

1. Put together out of artificial or natural components or parts
   "They manufacture small toys"; "He manufactured a popular cereal";
   - fabricate, construct
    
2. Concoct something artificial or untrue
   - fabricate, cook up [informal], make up, invent
    
3. Produce naturally
   "this gland manufactures a specific substance only"
    
4. Create or produce in a mechanical way
   "This novelist has been manufacturing his books following his initial success"

Type of: bring forth, concoct, create, creating from raw materials, dream up, hatch, hit on, make, produce, think of, think up

Encyclopedia: Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union