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Definition of 'mill'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

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

Definition of 'mill'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

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 bone mill

3. (noun) mill
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

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

9. (noun) mill
a passage underground through which ore is shot

10. (noun) mill
a milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling

11. (noun) mill
a pugilistic

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 rotary cutter

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

16. (noun) mill
to beat with the fists

17. (noun) mill
to roll into bars, as steel

18. (verb) mill
to swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures

Translation of 'mill'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a machine, sometimes now electrical, for grinding coffee, pepper etc by crushing it between rough, hard surfaces a coffee-mill; a pepper-mill.
Afrikaans: meul	Arabic: مَطْحَنَه	Bulgarian: мелничка
Brazilian: moinho	Czech: mlýnek	German: die Mühle
Danish: mølle; -mølle; kværn; -kv	Greek: μύλος	Spanish: molinillo
Estonian: veski	Farsi: اسیاب کردن	Finnish: mylly
French: moulin	Hebrew: מַטחֵנָה	Hindi: मिल
Croatian: mlin	Hungarian: daráló, őrlő	Indonesian: gilingan
Icelandic: kvörn	Italian: mulino	Japanese: 製粉機
Korean: 제분기	Lithuanian: malamoji mašinėlė, malūnė	Latvian: dzirnaviņas
Malay: pengisar	Dutch: molen	Norwegian: kvern
Polish: młynek	Persian: اسیاب کردن	Pashto: د ميده كولو ماشين، ژرنده
Portuguese: moinho	Romanian: râşniţă	Russian: ручная мельница
Slovak: mlynček	Slovenian: mlinček	Serbian: mlin
Swedish: kvarn	Thai: เครื่องโม่	Turkish: değirmen
Taiwanese: (咖啡等的)研磨機，(胡椒等的)研磨器或研磨罐	Ukrainian: млин	Urdu: چکّی، پیسنے کی مشین
Vietnamese: máy xay	Chinese: 碾磨机，磨粉机
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