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Factory Plant Chemical Town Large Works Place Industrial

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Keyword factory
Sub Entry Number 1
Type of Sentence
Error Sentence Just outside the town there is a large chemical factory.
Correct Sentence Just outside the town there is a large chemical plant.
Cloze Error Sentence Just outside the town there is a large chemical [[factory]].
Cloze Sentence Just outside the town there is a large chemical [[plant]].
Cloze Answer plant
Choices plant | factory
Explanation

COMPANY · FACTORY · INDUSTRY · MILL · PLANT · WORKS

Company an organization that makes or sells goods or that sells services: ‘My father works for an insurance company.’ ‘IBM is one of the biggest companies in the electronics industry.’

Factory a place where goods such as furniture, carpets, curtains, clothes, plates, toys, bicycles, sports equipments, drinks and packaged food are produced: ‘The company’s UK factory produces 500 golf trolleys a week.’

Industry (1) all the people, factories, companies etc involved in a major area of production: ‘the steel industry’, the clothing industry’

(2) all industries considered together as a single thing: ‘Industry has developed rapidly over the years at the expense of agriculture.’

Mill (1) a place where a particular type of material is made: ‘a cotton mill’, ‘a textile mill’, a paper mill’ (2) a place where flour is made from grain: ‘a flour mill’

Plant a factory or building where vehicles, engines, weapons, heavy machine, drugs or industrial chemicals are produced, where chemical processes are carried out, or where power is generated:‘Vauxhall-Opel’s UK car plants’, ‘Honda’s new engine plant at Microconcord, Swindon’, ‘a sewage plant’, ‘a wood treatment plant’. ‘ICI’s £100m plant’, ‘the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria’

Works an industrial building where materials such as cement, steel, and bricks are produced, or where industrial processes are carried out: ‘The drop in car and van sales has led to redundancies in the country’s steel works.’

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