mill 
mill (mil)
noun
- a building with machinery for grinding grain into flour or meal
- the machine for grinding grain
- a machine for grinding or pulverizing any solid material a coffee mill
- a machine for grinding or crushing fruits or vegetables to press out the juice a cider mill
- any of various machines for stamping, shaping, polishing, or dressing metal surfaces, coins, etc., or for making something by some action done again and again
- ☆ Informal an organization, establishment, etc. where things are done, produced, issued, etc. in a routine, rapid, mechanical way a diploma mill, a divorce mill
- a building or group of buildings with machinery for manufacturing or processing something; factory a textile mill
- a roller of hardened steel with a raised design on it, for making a die or printing plate by pressure
- a raised edge, ridged surface, etc. made by milling
Etymology: ME melle < OE mylen, akin to OHG mulin, ON mylna, all < 4th-c. Gmc borrowing < LL molinae, pl. of molina, mill < LL(Ec) molina, of a mill < L mola, millstone < IE base *mel-, to grind, crush > meal, mild, Ger mahlen, Gr mylē, mill, L mollis, soft, molere, to grind
transitive verb
- to grind, work, process, form, polish, etc. by, in, or as in a mill
- to raise and ridge the edge of (a coin), as a safeguard against wear and clipping; knurl
- Now Rare to beat or whip (chocolate, etc.) to a froth
intransitive verb
☆ to move slowly in a circle, as cattle, or aimlessly, as a confused crowd: often with around or about
in the mill
in preparation
through the mill
Informal through a hard, painful, instructive experience, training, test, etc.
☆ mill (mil)
noun
one tenth of a cent: $.001: a monetary unit used in calculating but not as a coin
Etymology: for L millesimus, thousandth < mille, thousand: cf. cent
mill (mil)
noun
Slang mil
Mill (mil)
Mill, James 1773-1836; Scot. philosopher, historian, & economist
Mill, John Stuart 1806-73; Eng. philosopher & economist: son of James
mill
n.
A factory
manufactory, plant, millhouse; see factory.A machine for grinding, crushing, pressing, etc.
grinder, grater, quern, windmill, waterwheel. Types of mills include: flour, coffee, bone, cotton, weaving, spinning, powder, rolling, cider, cane, lapidary; sawmill, gristmill, arrastra (Spanish), coin press, diesinking machine.
in the mill
through the mill*
Converse of object
- advertize: He advertised the mill for removal in July 1863.
- renovate: MORE » Dark Thread Kate and her mother are artisan weavers with a workshop in a renovated mill.
- erect: Most of the factory output was for the home market, although they later erected a large mill at Newark, New Jersey.
- convert: Mr. Hughes converted the mill for use as holiday lets and added the single story extensions.
Adjective modifier
- woolen: The village has a history of woolen mills which used to service the island's hundreds of farms in times past.
- water-powered: Mill Green Museum is a working water-powered corn mill situated near Welwyn Garden City.
- satanic: From the industrial archeology perspective, those satanic mills are full of an interest that their real occupants may not have appreciated.
- spinning: The Ordnance Survey found the five story spinning mill in course of erection.
- converted: By the riverside you will find Cargill's Visitor Center, a converted corn mill.
- textile: Last time we visited the mill we met a woman who worked in a textile mill in Leeds almost 50 years ago.
Modifies a noun
- leat: The fosse or mill leat followed the conformation of the hill.
- pond: Water to the mill pond is supplied by two springs.
- dam: The mill dams on the River Frome were preventing the free flow of the river's water.
- brook: A sanctuary with beautiful gardens, Cook and terrace overlooking mill brook.
Noun used with modifier
- corn: The Brindley Mill is a working water powered corn mill built in 1752 by James Brindley.
- flour: The former flour mill is now the North's premier art gallery.
- cotton: By 1789 there were no less than 20 water powered cotton mills in the Derwent Valley alone.
- rumor: The rumor mill has been in full flow for months now.
- flax: In the flax mill, Marshall added ventilation and heating, with baths and changing rooms added later.
- saw: The photo above shows an aerial view of the saw mill.
John Stuart Mill, By a mighty effort of will, Overcame his natural bonhomie And wrote'Principles of Political Economy'.
How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill.
Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.
God's mill grinds slow, but sure.
The sailing pine, the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspen good for staves, the cypress funeral. The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepeth still, The willow worn of forlorn paramours, The ewe obedient to the benders will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill, The myrrh sweet bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platan round, The carver holme, the maple seldom inward sound.
Some physiologists will have it that the stomach is a mill;öothers, that it is a fermenting vat;öothers again that it is a stew-pan;öbut in my view of the matter, it is neither a mill, a fermenting vat, nor a stew-panöbut a stomach, gentlemen, a stomach.
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