PREFABRICATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prefabricate mean? 

• PREFABRICATE (verb)
  The verb PREFABRICATE has 2 senses:

1. to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings

2. produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally

  Familiarity information: PREFABRICATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREFABRICATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they prefabricate    ... he / she / it prefabricates   
Past simple: prefabricated   
Past participle: prefabricated   
-ing form: prefabricating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

preassemble; prefabricate

Hypernyms (to "prefabricate" is one way to...):

create; make; produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)

Domain category:

building; construction (the act of constructing something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

prefabrication (the manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "prefabricate" is one way to...):

create; make; produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

A process that forms a solid dosage unit by pouring or casting a melted agent into a prefabricated form.

(Molded Formulation Process, NCI Thesaurus)