Textile Manufacturing Glossary

noun a system of machines and workers in a factory that a product moves along while it is being built or produced

• The production line at the factory was operating at maximum efficiency.
• The production line is churning out products like there's no tomorrow.
• The production line is on fire today, everything is running smoothly.
• Life is like a production line, we just have to keep moving forward.

noun the vapor into which water is converted when heated, forming a white mist of minute water droplets in the air

verb to emit steam or vapor

• The steam engine revolutionized transportation during the Industrial Revolution.
• I love watching the steam rise from a hot cup of tea.
• Let's blow off some steam by going for a run.
• The tension between them was palpable, like steam building up in a pressure cooker.