こう
Meanings
Noun
1. factory; plant; mill; workshop
Kanji used
construction
location
Pitch accent
うば
Composed of
(factory) worker
place; spot; field; discipline; occasion; situation; scene (of a play, movie, etc.)
Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
small factory in town; backstreet (small) workshop
Examples (57 in total)
There are a lot of factories in Kawasaki.
The factory has been transferred to Hokkaido.
The factory is running at full capacity.
We have a plant in Boston.
The factory did not want him.
The smoke from factories hung over the town.
I pointed to the factory.
Some factories pollute the environment.
The factory is run on a large scale.
This factory produces toys.
Possibly the factory will be closed down next week.
Government officials inspected all factories.
Our factories are working at full capacity.
The factory produces cotton goods.
There is no factory in this village.
It is the factory, my brother works in.
Our factory needs a lot of machinery.
The factory uses many complicated machines.
The enemy dropped many bombs on the factory.
His son took on the management of the factory.
He felt tired of working in the factory.
The building you see over there is an auto factory.
This factory makes car parts.
The factory will begin to produce next year.
Many workers were laid off at that plant.
My older brother is planning to work at a drug factory.
Tony thought about the factory and the shops.
The plants manufacture complex chemical compounds.
Our car is being repaired at the auto shop.
Last night an explosion took place at a fireworks factory.
Hundreds of people work in this factory.
The news of the fire in the factory caused a sensation.
Robots have taken the place of men in this factory.
My father works at the factory as an engineer.
At the turn of the century, children still worked in factories.
The site for the new factory has not been decided.
The factory waste gave rise to serious environmental pollution.
Many rivers in Japan are polluted by waste water from factories.
You'll be in charge of the women working in this factory.
The purpose of our trip is to visit a new factory.
The factory is trying to get rid of water pollution.
The pipe conveys water from the lake to the factory.
They have enough capital to build a second factory.
The workers in the factory were forced to work hard to improve the products.
Thanks to the technological innovation, the maximum output of the factory has doubled.
The very air we breathe is polluted with smog from the factory chimneys.
He had been working in the factory for three years when the accident occurred.
When people came out of the factory in the evening, their faces looked white and ill.
The area of the factory is 1,000 square meters.
I work as a carpenter in a furniture factory.
The output of this factory has increased by 20%.
He has worked in this factory for 11 years.
This river is polluted with factory waste.
This factory can turn out 200 cars a day.
This factory produces 500 automobiles a day.
The factory produces thousands of bottles every month.
This factory's productive capacity is 250 cars a week.