MILL

grind, mill, pulverization, pulverisation

(noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust

factory, mill, manufacturing plant, manufactory

(noun) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing

mill, grinder, milling machinery

(noun) machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing

Mill, John Mill, John Stuart Mill

(noun) English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)

Mill, James Mill

(noun) Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham’s utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)

mill

(verb) grind with a mill; “mill grain”

mill

(verb) roll out (metal) with a rolling machine

mill

(verb) produce a ridge around the edge of; “mill a coin”

mill, mill about, mill around

(verb) move about in a confused manner

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

mill (plural mills)

A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.

The building housing such a grinding apparatus.

A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc, from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process.

A machine for grinding and polishing.

The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.

A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.

A building housing such a plant.

(figurative) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.

(figurative, derogatory) An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised

(informal) An engine.

(informal) A boxing match, fistfight.

(die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.

(mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.

(mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.

A milling cutter.

A treadmill.

(CB radio slang) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.

Synonyms

• (plant, building): factory, works

Verb

mill (third-person singular simple present mills, present participle milling, simple past and past participle milled)

(transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.

(transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.

(transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).

(intransitive, followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.

(transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.

(zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.

(zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.

(transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.

To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.

(transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.

(transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.

(intransitive) To undergo hulling.

(intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.

(transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.

(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To commit burglary.

Synonyms

• (move about in an aimless fashion): roam, wander

Etymology 2

Noun

mill (plural mills)

An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.

One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.

Synonyms

• (one thousandth part): permille, ‰, ₥

Coordinate terms

• (one thousandth part)

• percent

• basis point

Etymology 3

Noun

mill (plural mill)

(informal) Alternative form of mil (“million”)

Etymology 4

Noun

mill (plural mills)

A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.

Etymology 5

Verb

mill (third-person singular simple present mills, present participle milling, simple past and past participle milled)

(transitive, trading card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.

(transitive, Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.

Synonyms

• (Hearthstone): burn

Noun

mill (countable and uncountable, plural mills)

(trading card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.

(trading card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.

Proper noun

Mill

A surname.

John Stuart Mill.

Source: Wiktionary

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Mill, n. Etym: [L. mille a thousand. Cf. Mile.]

Definition: A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.

Mill, n. Etym: [OE. mille, melle, mulle, milne, AS. myln, mylen; akin to D. molen, G. mühle, OHG. muli, mulin, Icel. mylna; all prob. from L. molina, fr. mola millstone; prop., that which grinds, akin to molere to grind, Goth. malan, G. mahlen, and to E. meal. Meal flour, and cf. Moline.]

1. A machine for grinding or commuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.

2. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.

3. A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.

4. A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.

5. A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.

6. (Die Sinking)

Definition: A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.

7. (Mining) (a) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. (b) A passage underground through which ore is shot.

8. A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.

9. A pugilistic. [Cant] R. D. Blackmore. Edge mill, Flint mill, etc. See under Edge, Flint, etc.

– Mill bar (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill.

– Mill cinder, slag from a puddling furnace.

– Mill head, the head of water employed to turn the wheel of a mill.

– Mill pick, a pick for dressing millstones.

– Mill pond, a pond that supplies the water for a mill.

– Mill race, the canal in which water is conveyed to a mill wheel, or the current of water which drives the wheel.

– Mill tail, the water which flows from a mill wheel after turning it, or the channel in which the water flows.

– Mill tooth, a grinder or molar tooth.

– Mill wheel, the water wheel that drives the machinery of a mill.

– Roller mill, a mill in which flour or meal is made by crushing grain between rollers.

– Stamp mill (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed by stamps.

– To go through the mill, to experience the suffering or discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state.

Mill, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Milled; p. pr. & vb. n. Milling.] Etym: [See Mill, n., and cf. Muller.]

1. To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.

2. To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.

3. To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.

4. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.

5. To beat with the fists. [Cant] Thackeray.

6. To roll into bars, as steel. To mill chocolate, to make it frothy, as by churning.

Mill, v. i. (Zoöl.)

Definition: To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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