🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

塑料厂

Pronunciation / Transliteration: sùliào chǎng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Plastics factory/ˈplæs.tɪks ˈfæk.tər.i/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这家塑料厂每天生产大量的日用品。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An industrial manufacturing plant where synthetic or semi-synthetic organic polymers are processed, molded, or assembled into finished goods.

    "The local plastics factory employs over three hundred workers in automated production lines."
  2. 2

    A production facility specializing specifically in the creation of raw plastic resins, pellets, or fabricated plastic components.

    "Environmental regulations have tightened around every plastics factory in the manufacturing district."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'plastics', derived from the Greek 'plastikos' (capable of being molded) via Modern Latin and 19th-century material science, with 'factory', stemming from the Latin 'factorium' (a place where factors or makers work). It emerged during the mid-20th century industrial expansion following the mass commercialization of synthetic polymers.

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