foundry
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈfaʊndri/
- Specialized
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fundición
- The workers at the foundry carefully poured molten metal into molds to create intricate shapes.
- iron foundries
- foundry work
- foundry workers
Except for one boy, George, whose dad actually owned a foundry.
- Except for one boy, George, whose dad actually owned a foundry.
- We don't find any evidence of foundries or large structures or roads.
- What kind of place are you looking for Funeral services, swamps, Cremation Services, mines, dumps, reservoirs, mortuaries, or metal foundries?
Examples
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Long after midnight, I heard the foundry whistle signal the changing shifts.
Fiction book (1992) -
After some effort, I located a foundry in a neighboring state.
Academic text (2009) -
And it's a great business for us because they have to go through our foundry to make the design.
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As a result, all parts come from the foundry in "near net shape."
Academic text (1995) -
I was raised in foundries like this.
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Look, Homer, I'm late for my night job at the foundry.
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Eventually, he added shanties to the foundry grounds for worker housing.
Academic text (2007) -
Most of them found work in the city's factories, foundries, and packing plants.
Academic text (1994) -
John S. Schofield's foundry, at the same time, made cannonballs and artillery shells.
Academic text (2007) -
I watched men in open-air foundries take infinite care hand-peening pieces of scrap metal into parts for cars.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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1.0
A building where people make goods using machines
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3.2
A large factory where goods are made using machines
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9.2
A large building where people make things, like a factory
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5.6
A factory where workers melt iron and shape it into metal objects
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4.2
A factory where people make things from metal like tools or machine parts
A workshop where people make bells by pouring hot metal into molds
Compounds
- Archaic
A first printed copy used to check letters and layout before final printing
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
foundry = found (semi-transparent) = found + ry
The suffix '-ry' denotes a place (like 'bakery'), so if a learner knows 'found' in the sense 'to cast metal' they can infer 'foundry', but that verb sense is less familiar and homographic with other meanings of 'found'.
Etymology
Foundry comes from the Latin root fundere meaning 'to pour'. Think of pouring hot, melted metal into a mold — that's why a foundry is a place where metal is melted and poured into shapes.