Sekirov Dictionary

industrial

/ɪnˈdʌs.tɹi.əl/

adjective 8
noun 6
forms 3

adjective8

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connected with making goods in large amounts in a factory
- The industrial segment of the economy has seen troubles lately.
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Produced by such industry.
- Handicraft is less standardized then industrial products, hence less artistic or rather flawless.
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Used by such industry.
- More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel. — 2006
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Employed as manpower by such industry.
- Come, all ye workers, from every land, / Come, join in the grand industrial band; / Then we our share of this earth shall demand. — 1913
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Having many industries; industrialized.
- Italy is a part-industrial, part-rural nation.
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Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade.
- This is an industrial product—it's much too strong for home use.
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Belonging or pertaining to the genre of industrial music.
- a track with clashing industrial beats
Massive in scale or quantity.

noun6

An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.
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(informal) Ellipsis of industrial music.
- I wish they'd play more industrial in this club.
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A bond or stock issued by such a company.
- A very short time later a terrible line in a financial daily—"Consols weak"—caught his agitated eye. Consols were precipitately abandoned and a "sound industrial" took their place. — 1923
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A film made for use within an industry, not for a movie-going audience.
- Actor, director, and producer for three decades offers coaching and directing in scenes, improves, cold copy, script analysis, commercials, voice-overs, industrials, film, and stage. — 2012
(informal) Ellipsis of industrial piercing.
(no longer used, old-fashioned) An employee in industry.

forms

industrials · more industrial · most industrial

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