manufacture

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To make or process (a raw material) into a finished product, especially by means of a large-scale industrial operation.
• intransitive verb To make or process (a product), especially with the use of industrial machines.
• intransitive verb To create, produce, or turn out in a mechanical manner.
• intransitive verb To concoct or invent; fabricate.
• intransitive verb To make or process goods, especially in large quantities and by means of industrial machines.
• noun The act, craft, or process of manufacturing products, especially on a large scale.
• noun An industry in which mechanical power and machinery are employed.
• noun A product that is manufactured.
• noun The making or producing of something.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To make or fabricate, as anything for use, especially in considerable quantities or numbers, or by the aid of many hands or of machinery; work materials into the form of: as, to manufacture cloth, pottery, or hardware; to manufacture clothing, boots and shoes, or cigars.
• Figuratively, to produce artificially; elaborate or get up by contrivance or special effort; hence, to make a show of; simulate: as, to manufacture words or phrases; a manufactured public opinion; manufactured grief or emotion.
• To use as material for manufacture; work up into form for use; make something from: as, to manufacture wool into cloth.
• To be occupied in manufactures; fabricate or elaborate something.
• noun The operation of making goods or wares of any kind; the production of articles for use from raw or prepared materials by giving to these materials new forms, qualities, properties, or combinations, whether by hand-labor or by machinery: used more especially of production in a large way by machinery or by many hands working coöperatively.
• noun Anything made for use from raw or prepared materials; collectively, manufactured articles; figuratively, anything formed or produced; a contrivance.
• noun A place or building in which manufacturing operations are carried on; a factory.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To make (wares or other products) by hand, by machinery, or by other agency
• transitive verb To work, as raw or partly wrought materials, into suitable forms for use.
• noun The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.
• noun Anything made from raw materials by the hand, by machinery, or by art, as cloths, iron utensils, shoes, machinery, saddlery, etc.
• intransitive verb To be employed in manufacturing something.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.
• noun figuratively Anything made, formed or produced; product.
• noun figuratively The process of such production; generation, creation.
• verb To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.
• verb To create goods from raw material, e.g. in a factory.
• verb In a negative sense, to fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
• verb create or produce in a mechanical way
• verb put together out of artificial or natural components or parts
• noun the organized action of making of goods and services for sale
• verb make up something artificial or untrue
• verb produce naturally