assembly line
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3.2
- noun
- /əˈsɛm.bli laɪn/
- Specialized
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línea de montaje
- As word of Henry Ford's new automobile assembly line spread, Smith contemplated automating his frame manufacturing process.
- assembly line workers
- assembly line manufacturing
- assembly line production
One thing to point out to these assembly lines are huge.
- One thing to point out to these assembly lines are huge.
- So we turn people into robots, people on assembly line stamping out widgets.
- And so a lot of the time I spent with him was on assembly lines.
- That is actually taking artisan's job in making a car, let's say, into an assembly line job.
- And then I was, I was working in, I took a job at Vauxhall Motors on the assembly line during this time.
- So the big winner in the short term is the EU, because you got to think that a lot of these factories want to keep their assembly lines humming.
- And so I started with the assembly line with plugs, you know, the trays, fill the trays, plugs, all that kind of stuff.
- I'd argue that it's actually in part due the fact that the entire culture of the US and much the West revolves around the assembly line.
- In fact, interestingly, Henry Ford after observing these meat packing plants, Upton Sinclair wrote about them as well, created the assembly line that built the Model A.
- They're kind of the, the, the pickaxe end of the of the of the assembly line.
Examples
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Two office towers, each three stories high, flank the assembly line and engineering area.
Academic text (2005) -
Traditional manufacturing machines and assembly lines efficiently produced a single product.
Academic text (2015) -
His father worked the night shift on the assembly line of a factory.
Fiction book (1995) -
My mother worked on farms, then on a car assembly line, working six days double shifts.
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Of course, the real invention wasn't the car, it was the assembly line that built it.
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Twenty-foot-wide doors in the engineering area open onto the assembly line, which is 1,000 feet long.
Academic text (2005) -
Automobile manufacturers modified their assembly-line methods to suit the greater precision and larger scale of building aircraft.
Academic text (2005) -
Ford opened his first moving assembly line in 1913, in Highland Park, Mich.
Academic text (2005) -
Henry Ford didn't invent the assembly line, but boy, did he refine it.
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At the factory, workers efficiently moved parts along the assembly line to create the final product.
Synonyms
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3.0
A company or service that moves people and goods
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3.0
A series of machines and workers in a factory that make a product step by step
A factory system where products move without stopping between machines for assembly
How Automated
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'assembly' (joining parts) + 'line' (a sequence or row) clearly yields a sequence where items are assembled, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the factory process. Many languages use a similar literal construction (e.g., Spanish 'línea de montaje'), and the noun+noun compound follows a common, transparent pattern.
Etymology
The noun assembly line comes from factories where a product moved along a line of workers and each person added one part to the assembly. Because the product was built step by step as it moved, the phrase means 'a system to make things quickly'.