Search Result for "production line":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it;
[syn: production line, assembly line, line]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

assembly line \assembly line\ n. A line of machinery, tools, and workers on which objects to be manufactured are moved from one post to the next, where different workers perform different steps in the manufacturing process; called also production line. The objects to be manufactured usually move on a form of conveyor belt, which does not necessarily move only in a straight line, but may continue around the factory area for some distance. [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

production line n 1: mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it [syn: production line, assembly line, line]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

55 Moby Thesaurus words for "production line": armory, arsenal, assemblage, assembly, assembly line, assembly plant, assembly-line production, atomic energy plant, bindery, boatyard, boilery, bookbindery, brewery, brickyard, cannery, creamery, dairy, defense plant, distillery, division of labor, dockyard, factory, factory belt, factory district, feeder plant, flour mill, industrial park, industrial zone, industrialization, main plant, manufactory, manufacturing plant, manufacturing quarter, mass production, mill, mint, modular production, munitions plant, oil refinery, packing house, plant, pottery, power plant, push-button plant, refinery, sawmill, shipyard, standardization, subassembly plant, sugar refinery, tannery, volume production, winery, yard, yards