Mill

[mɪl]

Definition

(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.

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Definition

(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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Synonyms and Synonymous

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).

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Definition

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.

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