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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Examples of "mill" in Sentences
- They lived in what they call the mill hill, the houses real close together.
- The chapter in Inkspell where a mill is the scene of a dramatic confrontation depends on it.
- "Some were like Evan's mill, _which was a gentlemanly mill_; it would go when it had nothing to do, but it refused to work."
- You have just said that its operations resemble those of a mill: could you not, as often as you require to speak of it, refer to it in the future as _the mill_? "
- As the rumor-mill is running that the 11th Doctor will be an "old-soul with a young face", her perception may well be spot-on, from her point of view ... (btw - like I said above, just wild-surfing, so I probably will never see this post again, but just felt the need to comment ...)
- We are going to make it Saturday afternoon so as to include the entire troop "(the term mill girl was studiously avoided)," and besides, "continued Margaret, glorying in the importance of her post," we may have the Venture Troop of Franklin with that pretty little leader, Rose Dixon.
- However, in the absence of such an improvement, much may be done by care and attention at the mill; the green bands and trash which usually accompany the canes from the field, should, therefore, be carefully removed before they are passed through, as they contain no saccharine matter, abound in the deleterious substances already mentioned, and communicate a bad color to the juice; therefore, _the ripe cane only should pass through the mill_.
- But those weasel phrases get tiresome after a while, and people do tend to gloss over them; and, hey, I'm always interested in finding more gnarly ideas to take apart and play with; so I thought that even if I am going to blather away with my own jazz riffs on what I understand Todorov or Clute to be saying -- to grab these basic themes wherever I find them, see if I can play them back by ear, and if they sound right run with that, rephrasing them and putting them through the conversions, inversions and reversions of my own twisty, turny logic -- well, more grist for the mill is always fun.
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