mill
IPA: mˈɪɫ
noun
- 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.
- A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
- 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.
- (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.
- (historical) A prison treadmill.
- (CB radio slang) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
- 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.
- A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
- (collectible card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
- (collectible card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
- A surname.
- John Stuart Mill, English libertarian and utilitarian philosopher.
- A village in North Brabant, Netherlands.
- An unincorporated community in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, United States.
- (informal) Alternative form of mil (“million”) [An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to ¹⁄₆₄₀₀ of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also ¹⁄₆₀₀₀ and ¹⁄₆₃₀₀ are used in other countries.]
verb
- (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.
- (transitive, collectible 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.
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