1. (n.)mill a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, or textiles.
2. mill a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour and other cereal products.
3. mill a machine for grinding, crushing, or pulverizing any solid substance: a coffee mill.
4. mill any of various machines that modify the shape or size of a piece of work by rotating tools or the work: rolling mill.
5. mill any of various other apparatuses for shaping materials or performing other mechanical operations.
6. mill a business or institution that dispenses products or services in an impersonal or mechanical manner: a divorce mill; a diploma mill.
7. mill Slang. a boxing match or fistfight.
8. (v.t.)mill to grind, work, treat, or shape in or with a mill.
9. mill to make a raised edge on (a coin or the like).
10. mill to make radial grooves on the raised edge of (a coin or the like).
11. mill to beat or stir, as to a froth: to mill chocolate.
12. mill Slang. to beat or strike; fight.
13. (v.i.)mill to move around aimlessly, slowly, or confusedly (often fol. by about or around).
14. mill Slang. to fight or box.
15. (n.)mill a money of account equal to .001 of a U.S. dollar.
16. (n.)Mill James, 1773–1836, English philosopher, historian, and economist, born in Scotland.
17. Mill his son John Stuart, 1806–73, English philosopher and economist.
Definition of 'MILL'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)factory, mill, manufacturing plant, manufactory a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
2. (noun)Mill, James Mill Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)
3. (noun)Mill, John Mill, John Stuart Mill English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)
4. (noun)mill, grinder, milling machinery machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
5. (verb)grind, mill, pulverization, pulverisation the act of grinding to a powder or dust
6. (verb)mill, mill about, mill around move about in a confused manner
7. (verb)mill grind with a mill "mill grain"
8. (verb)mill produce a ridge around the edge of "mill a coin"
9. (verb)mill roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
1. (noun)mill a factory making a particular product a steel/textile/sugar mill
2. mill a building where grain is ground to make flour a mill by the river
3. (verb)mill (of many people) to be moving around an area Fans were milling around outside the stadium.
Definition of 'MILL'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)MILL a money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar
2. (noun)MILL 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 bonemill
4. (noun)MILL a machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill
5. (noun)MILL 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
6. (noun)MILL 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
7. (noun)MILL a hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper
8. (noun)MILL an excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained
12. (noun)MILL to reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute
13. (noun)MILL to shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotarycutter
14. (noun)MILL 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
15. (noun)MILL to pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth