Manufacturing

515 entries in this trade.

greige

adjectiveManufacturing

Of clothing, textiles, etc.: neither bleached nor dyed, nor otherwise fully processed; unfinished.

grinding

The action of grinding a workpiece to change its size, shape, and surface finish.

groundway

In shipbuilding, a substantial foundation of wood or stone for the blocks on which a vessel is built.

gruit

An herbal mixture, used in the flavouring of beer, that preceded the use of hops.

hacking

nounManufacturingobsolete

The separation of a course of stones into two smaller courses, when there are not enough large stones to form a single course.

handle

The tactile qualities of a fabric, e.g., softness, firmness, elasticity, fineness, resilience, and other qualities perceived by touch.

hat

A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.

Hedebo

Any of various forms of whitework embroidery that originated in the heathland region of Zealand, Denmark, in the 1760s.

hem

The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.

hopback

A sealed chamber between the brewing kettle and counter-flow wort chiller, into which hops are added.

implicit modeling

A type of digital modeling that defines surfaces, edges, nodes, and points with mathematical equations, which entails that the geometry of the defined object may vary within the range of possibilities that solve or satisfy those equations.

initial reject

An item that is not terminally defective but fails to meet the manufacturer's technical standards for sale through its normal retail channels.

KD

Initialism of knockdown (“collection of parts to assemble a product”).

keel

A broad, flat vessel used for cooling liquids; a brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.

kitting

The process of assembling or bundling various related goods for sale to increase revenue.

knee

A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.

knuckle

A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.

kräusen

To condition (beer) by adding fermenting wort, so as to restart fermentation and introduce fresh carbon dioxide.