Mill

Word MILL
Character 4
Hyphenation mill
Pronunciations /mɪl/

Definitions and meanings of "Mill"

What do we mean by mill?

A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour or meal. noun

A device or mechanism that grinds grain. noun

A building or farm equipped with machinery that presses or grinds fruit to extract the juice. noun

A device or machine used to extract juice from fruit. noun

A machine or device that reduces a solid or coarse substance into pulp or minute grains by crushing, grinding, or pressing. noun

A building or group of buildings equipped with machinery for processing raw materials into finished or industrial products. noun

A machine, such as one for stamping coins, that produces something by the repetition of a simple process. noun

A steel roller bearing a raised design, used for making a die or a printing plate by pressure. noun

Any of various machines for shaping, cutting, polishing, or dressing metal surfaces. noun

A process, agency, or institution that operates in a mechanical way or turns out products in the manner of a factory. noun

A business that breeds and sells animals, such as purebred puppies, often in substandard conditions. Often used in combination. noun

A difficult or laborious series of experiences. noun

To grind, pulverize, or break down into smaller particles in a mill. intransitive verb

To produce or process mechanically in a mill. intransitive verb

To cut, shape, or finish in a mill or with a milling tool. intransitive verb

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.

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.

An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised

An engine.

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.

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

A passage underground through which ore is shot.

A milling cutter.

A treadmill.

A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.

One million dollars Urban Dictionary

A term used in TCG games which means that a player ran out of cards to draw. Urban Dictionary

Irish slang meaning to devour a piece of food, among other things. typically used when the piece of food is banging Urban Dictionary

Verb; to mill is to constantly Facebook and text message every girl in one high school, regardless of age, color, or size. One who mills never stops until thoroughly rejected. Urban Dictionary

Where John Edwards's daddy worked in. Urban Dictionary

Mill is short for 'abortion mill' which is anti-abortion slang for 'abortion clinic'. The term mill comes from the assembly line way girls are treated in abortion clinics. Quite often the girls are lined up in rooms and prep for the abortionist, who only spends a couple of minutes on each one, working in an assembly line fashion. Urban Dictionary

To walk a lap around a certain area. only going right always and never turning back. Urban Dictionary

When someone isn’t in the mood. Urban Dictionary

To devour ones food Urban Dictionary

1. The process of wandering aimlessly, similar to loitering. 2. Something average, shortening of 'run of the mill'. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Mill

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The word "mill" in example sentences

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_. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

"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." ❋ Unknown (1906)

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_? " ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

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. ❋ Lilian Garis (1913)

The chapter in Inkspell where a mill is the scene of a dramatic confrontation depends on it. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They lived in what they call the mill hill, the houses real close together. ❋ Eunice Austin (1980)

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. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

Since the Darbonne mill has 250 employees and currently works with over 1,000 farmers, the revitalization of the Darbonne mill translates into the participation of over 30,000 farmers, resulting in a direct positive economic impact on over 240,000 people. ❋ Georgianne Nienaber (2011)

The mill is about to be sold to a Chinese millionaire businessman called Nelson Li, and it was after Sumner made some indiscreet comments about the operation being moved from Scotland that his body was found. ❋ Maxine (2009)

Of course, the rumor mill is that raises next year will be 1%, after no raises this year. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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 ...) ❋ Rabid1st (2009)

Anyone thinking that a stadium could be had for $20 mill is going to have sticker shock when we get the actual tab. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Grain mill products, pet food and snack food show best market prospects. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Farm-to-fork There was a grain mill that grinds the wheat into flour. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If the roumor mill is even close to the truth then this has been a very long time coming. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)

[my house] [cost] [a couple] mill ❋ Anonymous (2003)

*two guys playing Magic* Dude: *crap, I'm almost out of cards. Only four left [in the deck]* Dude 2: play "Ancestral Visions". You [draw 4] cards Dude; Damn it! I [MILLed] out ❋ KingFloofy:3 (2017)

i’d mill those [chicken wings] ❋ Joyceyx (2023)

"Did you hear Sarah got [milled] last night? He sent her a text saying 'you're kinda cute, want to [screw]?' She's never talked to him [in real life]!" ❋ Stop Online Milling Coalition (2012)

1. "[My daddy] [worked] in a mill! My daddy worked in a mill! My daddy worked in a mill!" -John [Edwards] ❋ RHS Student (2004)

We were at [the mill] on [Saturday morning] and [two girls] changed their minds about killling their babies. ❋ Rev Donald Spitz (2008)

hey [bill] [lets] mill one [lap]. ❋ R Jeezy (2008)

“[Ugh]! [Leave me alone]. I’m [not in the mills].” ❋ Lmaoooooio (2021)

Irish slang "Ma that [roast beef] was bleeding [whopper], I [milled] it!! ❋ KNT89 (2020)

"Shit the train doesn't leave for another hour", "oh well lets just [mill] around town for a bit" "won't be going back to see [that film], it was pure mill" "[Dave's] party was so mill I had to leave before ten" ❋ GoldenBarrel (2009)

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