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industrial

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See also: Industrial and industriâl

English

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Etymology

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From French industriel.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɪnˈdʌstɹɪəl/
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Adjective

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industrial (comparative more industrial, superlative most industrial)

  1. Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.
    The industrial segment of the economy has seen troubles lately.
    • 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
      Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
  2. Produced by such industry.
    Handicraft is less standardized then industrial products, hence less artistic or rather flawless.
  3. Used by such industry.
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion[1]:
      More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
  4. Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade.
    This is an industrial product—it's much too strong for home use.
  5. Massive in scale or quantity.
  6. Employed as manpower by such industry.
    • 1913, “There Is Power in a Union”, in Little Red Songbook, performed by Joe Hill:
      Come, all ye workers, from every land, / Come, join in the grand industrial band; / Then we our share of this earth shall demand.
  7. (of a society or country) Having many industries; industrialized.
    Italy is a part-industrial, part-rural nation.
    • 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
      Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
  8. (music) Belonging or pertaining to the genre of industrial music.
    a track with clashing industrial beats

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Noun

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industrial (countable and uncountable, plural industrials)

  1. (dated, 19th-mid 20th century) An employee in industry.
  2. (business) An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.
  3. (finance) A bond or stock issued by such a company.
  4. (film) A film made for use within an industry, not for a movie-going audience.
    • 2012, Stuart J. Scesney, How to Enter the Business of Commercial Modeling and Acting Without Getting Ripped Off:
      Actor, director, and producer for three decades offers coaching and directing in scenes, improves, cold copy, script analysis, commercials, voice-overs, industrials, film, and stage.
  5. (informal, uncountable) Short for industrial music.
    I wish they'd play more industrial in this club.
  6. (informal) Short for industrial piercing.

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Catalan

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Etymology

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From indústria +‎ -al.

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Adjective

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industrial m or f (masculine and feminine plural industrials)

  1. industrial

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Galician

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Etymology

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From industria +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /indusˈtɾjal/ [in̪.d̪us̺ˈt̪ɾjɑɫ]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Hyphenation: in‧dus‧trial

Adjective

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industrial m or f (plural industriais)

  1. industrial

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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English industrial.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /inˈdas.trjal/
  • Rhymes: -astrjal
  • Syllabification: in‧dus‧trial

Noun

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industrial m inan

  1. (architecture) industrial architecture (objects of industrial and post-industrial architecture)
  2. (art) industrial art (aesthetic current in art looking for inspiration in forms associated with industrial civilization)
  3. industrial music (noisy, experimental genre of music with transgressive themes)

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industrial m inan

  1. (slang) industrial piercing (piercing, especially of the upper ear cartilage, in which two pierced holes are connected with a single straight piece of jewelry)

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adjectives
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Further reading

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  • industrial in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • industrial in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Etymology

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From indústria (industry) +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩ.dus.tɾiˈaw/ [ĩ.dus.tɾɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.dusˈtɾjaw/ [ĩ.dusˈtɾjaʊ̯]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ĩ.duʃ.tɾiˈaw/ [ĩ.duʃ.tɾɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.duʃˈtɾjaw/ [ĩ.duʃˈtɾjaʊ̯]
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ĩ.duʃ.tɾiˈal/ [ĩ.duʃ.tɾiˈaɫ], (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.duʃˈtɾjal/ [ĩ.duʃˈtɾjaɫ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ĩ.duʃ.tɾiˈa.li/, (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.duʃˈtɾja.li/

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: in‧dus‧tri‧al

Adjective

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industrial m or f (plural industriais)

  1. industrial

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French industriel. By surface analysis, industrie +‎ -al.

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industrial m or n (feminine singular industrială, masculine plural industriali, feminine and neuter plural industriale)

  1. industrial

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singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite industrial industrială industriali industriale
definite industrialul industriala industrialii industrialele
genitive-
dative
indefinite industrial industriale industriali industriale
definite industrialului industrialei industrialilor industrialelor
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Spanish

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Etymology

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From industria +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /indusˈtɾjal/ [ĩn̪.d̪usˈt̪ɾjal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: in‧dus‧trial

Adjective

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industrial m or f (masculine and feminine plural industriales)

  1. industrial

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