manufacture-v; 3 Senses

Sense Number 1: make or produce products in quantity, perhaps in a mechanical way.

Commentary: Syntax Is: NP1[agent] MANUFACTURE NP2[product[concrete]]

Examples:
Most memory chips are now manufactured overseas.
The costs of manufacturing clothing domestically have gone up in recent years.
That firm manufactures about a dozen brands of cereal.
The Hollywood writers seem to manufacture the scripts for these sitcoms. (metaphoric extension)
This novelist has been manufacturing his books following his
initial success.

Mappings:
VerbNet: create-26.4
FrameNet: Manufacturing
PropBank: manufacture.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 4

Sense Number 2: think up a falsehood, concoct a lie

Commentary: Syntax Is: NP1[agent] MANUFACTURE NP2[patient[abstract]]

Examples:
They claim the teenager manufactured the story just to get attention.
The state-controlled press manufactures far-fetched justifications for the dictator's atrocities.
The scientist confessed that he had manufactured most of the results in his experiments.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: manufacture.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2

Sense Number 3: Produce naturally.

Commentary: Syntax Is: NP1[topic] MANUFACTURE NP2

Examples:
This gland manufactures a specific substance only.
Maple trees manufacture delicious sap.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3