Mill
[mɪl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing.
(noun.) English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873).
(noun.) Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836).
(verb.) grind with a mill; 'mill grain'.
(verb.) roll out (metal) with a rolling machine.
(verb.) produce a ridge around the edge of; 'mill a coin'.
(verb.) move about in a confused manner.
編輯:罗伊--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
(n.) A machine for grinding or comminuting 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
(n.) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
(n.) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
(n.) A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.
(n.) A pugilistic.
(n.) To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
(n.) To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
(n.) 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.
(n.) To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
(n.) To beat with the fists.
(n.) To roll into bars, as steel.
(v. i.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
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同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Manufactory.[2]. [U. S.] One tenth of a cent.[3]. Fight, contest.
v. a. [1]. Stamp (as coin) on the edge.[2]. Full (as cloth).[3]. [Low.] Beat (with the fists).
編輯:露西尔
解釋/意思:
n. (U.S.) the thousandth part of a dollar.
n. a machine for grinding any substance as grain by crushing it between two hard rough surfaces: a place where corn is ground or manufacture of some kind is carried on: a contest at boxing.—v.t. to grind: to press or stamp in a mill: to stamp or turn up the edge of coin and put ridges and furrows on the rim: to put furrows and ridges on any edge: to clean as cloth: to beat severely with the fists.—ns. Mill′-board stout pasteboard used esp. in binding books; Mill′cog a cog of a mill-wheel; Mill′dam Mill′pond a dam or pond to hold water for driving a mill.—adj. Milled prepared by a grinding-mill or a coining-press: transversely grooved: treated by machinery esp. smoothed by calendering rollers in a paper-mill.—ns. Mill′-horse a horse that turns a mill; Mill′ing the act of passing anything through a mill: the act of fulling cloth: the process of turning up the edge of coin and of putting the rows of ridges and furrows on it: indenting coin on the edge; Mill′race the current of water that turns a mill-wheel or the channel in which it runs; Mill-six′pence (Shak.) a milled sixpence; Mill′stone one of the two stones used in a mill for grinding corn; Mill′stone-grit (geol.) a hard gritty variety of sandstone suitable for millstones; Mill′-tooth a molar; Mill′-wheel the water-wheel used for driving a mill; Mill′-work the machinery of a mill: the planning and putting up of machinery in mills; Mill′wright a wright or mechanic who builds and repairs mills.—Go through the mill to undergo suffering or experience sufficient to fit one for certain duties or privileges; See through a millstone to see far into or through difficult questions.
校對:洛丽
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of a mill, indicates thrift and fortunate undertakings. To see a dilapidated mill, denotes sickness and ill fortune. See Cotton Mill, etc.
錄入:李莉斯
例句/造句/用法:
- The mill shall find salaries for a master and mistress, and the squire or the clothier shall give a treat once a quarter. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- My mill is my castle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- His mill is his lady-love, Cary! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- SHERMAN, Commanding Mill Division of the Mississippi. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- There is a post at the mill that you see there. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I only wish the machines--the frames--were safe here, and lodged within the walls of this mill. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Helstone and Moore trotted forth from the mill-yard gates, at the head of their very small company, in the best possible spirits. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Miss Mills had a wonderful flow of words, and liked to pour them out. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- In mining there are stamp mills, ore crushers, separators, concentrators, and amalgamators. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- I didn't think you would; and I want, more than ever, to be liked, now Julia Mills is gone. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I replied, 'I, Miss Mills! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I said to Miss Mills that this was very true, and who should know it better than I, who loved Dora with a love that never mortal had experienced yet? 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- And, I'll tell him ye won't let the women come to the mills, yo old nigger! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I entreated Miss Mills to see me, that evening. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The wanderings led to the old ore-milling plant at Edison, now practically a mass of deserted buildings all going to decay. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- During the progress of the ore-milling work at Edison, it became desirable to carry on a certain operation by some special machinery. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- This process is best adapted to what are known as free milling or porous ores, where the gold is free and very fine and is attracted readily by mercury. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The planchets, after being adjusted, are taken to the coining and milling rooms, and are passed through the milling machine. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Milling processes within the last twenty-five years have been completely transformed by the introduction of the roller mill and middlings purifier. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- In the story of the ore-milling work, it has been noted that the plant was shut down owing to the competition of the cheap ore from the Mesaba Range. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It consisted of many milling machines and other tools for duplicating. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- By this apparatus 560 nickels can be milled in a minute; for large pieces the average is 120. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- So I _do_ do as she bids me,' replied Mr. Chitling; 'I shouldn't have been milled, if it hadn't been for her advice. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The fabric is then ready to go with the milled rubber to the various departments of the factory to be incorporated into rubber goods. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
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