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Mill   /mɪl/   Listen
Mill

noun
1.
A plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing.  Synonyms: factory, manufactory, manufacturing plant.
2.
Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836).  Synonym: James Mill.
3.
English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873).  Synonyms: John Mill, John Stuart Mill.
4.
Machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing.  Synonyms: grinder, milling machinery.
5.
The act of grinding to a powder or dust.  Synonyms: grind, pulverisation, pulverization.
verb
(past & past part. milled; pres. part. milling)
1.
Move about in a confused manner.  Synonyms: mill about, mill around.
2.
Grind with a mill.
3.
Produce a ridge around the edge of.
4.
Roll out (metal) with a rolling machine.



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"Mill" Quotes from Famous Books



... job in the mill for every Saturday at 75 cents a day, and soon thereafter was able to have a necktie and a pair of fine boots, and a barber, now and then, to control the length ...
— Darrel of the Blessed Isles • Irving Bacheller

... Colonel McDonell's capture of Ogdensburgh, which is below Kingston, and opposite Prescott, the scene of the Wind Mill fight in '37. ...
— The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation - Volume 1 • Charles Roger

... Mexico metalworking machines, steel mill products, agricultural machinery, electrical equipment, car parts for assembly, repair parts for motor vehicles, aircraft, ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... lines is confused. Are not you he, says the fairy, that fright the country girls. that skim milk, work in the hand-mill, and make the tired dairy-woman churn without effect? The mention of the mill seem out of place, for she is not now telling the good but the evil that he does. I would regulate the ...
— Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I Comedies • Samuel Johnson

... distraught, And frets her horns, and bellows through the night. The stream runs black; and the far waterfall That sang so sweetly through the summer eyes, And swelled and swayed to Zephyr's softest breath, Leaps with a sullen roar the dark abyss, And howls its hoarse responses to the wind. The mill is still. The distant factory, That swarmed yestreen with many-fingered life, And bridged the river with a hundred bars Of molten light, is dark, and lifts its bulk, With dim, uncertain ...
— Bitter-Sweet • J. G. Holland


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