industrial
/ɪnˈdʌs.tɹi.əl/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.71 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.
adj
Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade.
adj
Having many industries; industrialized.
adj
Belonging or pertaining to the genre of industrial music.
Example Sentences
- "The industrial segment of the economy has seen troubles lately."
- "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."
- "The sight of a teenager walking the small town's streets would usually go unnoticed, but to Benicia Police Cpl. Kirk Keffer, things didn't look right on the quiet street in the industrial part of town."
- "Handicraft is less standardized then industrial products, hence less artistic or rather flawless."
- "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."
- "This is an industrial product—it's much too strong for home use."
Etymology
From French industriel. By surface analysis, industry + -al.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: industriel
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪnˈdʌs.tɹi.əl/
- British English: /ɪnˈdʌs.tɹi.əl/