Definitions for mill
mɪlmill

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. factory, mill, manufacturing plant, manufactorynoun

   a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing

2. Mill, James Millnoun

   Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)

3. Mill, John Mill, John Stuart Millnoun

   English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)

4. mill, grinder, milling machinerynoun

   machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing

5. grind, mill, pulverization, pulverisationverb

   the act of grinding to a powder or dust

6. mill, mill about, mill aroundverb

   move about in a confused manner

7. millverb

   grind with a mill

   "mill grain"

8. millverb

   produce a ridge around the edge of

   "mill a coin"

9. millverb

   roll out (metal) with a rolling machine

GCIDERate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Millnoun

   A building or complex of buildings containing a mill or other machinery to grind grains into flour.

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. millnoun

   An obsolete coin with value one-thousandth of a dollar, or one-tenth of a cent.

2. millnoun

   One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.

3. millverb

   To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.

   to mill flour

4. millverb

   To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.

5. mill

   To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).

6. mill

   (followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.

   I didn't have much to do, so I just milled around the town looking at the shops.

7. Millnoun

   John Stuart Mill.

8. Etymology: * mille, mylen

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. MILLnoun

   An engine or fabrick in which corn is ground to meal, or any other body is comminuted.

   Etymology: μύλη; mola, Lat. melin, Welsh; myln , Saxon; moulin, Fr. molen, Dutch.

   The table, and we about it, did all turn round by water which ran under, and carried it about as a mill. Philip Sidney.

   More water glideth by the mill
   Than wots the miller of. William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus.

   Olives ground in mills their fatness boast. Dryden.

   A miller had his arm and scapula torn from his body by a rope twisted round his wrist, and suddenly drawn up by the mill. Samuel Sharp, Surgery.

2. To Millverb

   Etymology: from the noun; μνλεῖν; mila, Islandick.

   1. To grind; to comminute.2. To beat up chocolate.3. To stamp coin in the mints.

   It would be better for your milled medals, if they carried the whole legend on their edges; but at the same time that they are lettered on the edges, they have other inscriptions on the face and the reverse. Addison.

   Wood’s halfpence are not milled, and therefore more easily counterfeited. Jonathan Swift.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mill

   A mill is a building or facility equipped with machinery and tools used to grind or crush raw materials, like grains into flour or ores into smaller pieces. It can also refer to a machine used to cut, shape or finish a piece of material or a device that removes material by grinding or cutting. The term "mill" can also be used as a unit of currency in some countries.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Millnoun

   a money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar

2. Millnoun

   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. Millnoun

   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. Millnoun

   a machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill

5. Millnoun

   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. Millnoun

   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. Millnoun

   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. Millnoun

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

9. Millnoun

   a passage underground through which ore is shot

10. Millnoun

    a milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling

11. Millnoun

    a pugilistic

12. Millnoun

    to reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute

13. Millnoun

    to shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter

14. Millnoun

    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. Millnoun

    to pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth

16. Millnoun

    to beat with the fists

17. Millnoun

    to roll into bars, as steel

18. Millverb

    to swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures

19. Etymology: [See Mill, n., and cf. Muller.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Mill

   A grinding mill is a unit operation designed to break a solid material into smaller pieces. There are many different types of grinding mills and many types of materials processed in them. Historically mills were powered by hand, working animal, wind or water. Today they are also powered by electricity. The grinding of solid matters occurs under exposure of mechanical forces that trench the structure by overcoming of the interior bonding forces. After the grinding the state of the solid is changed: the grain size, the grain size disposition and the grain shape. Grinding may serve the following purposes in engineering: ⁕increase of the surface area of a solid ⁕manufacturing of a solid with a desired grain size ⁕pulping of resources

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Mill

   mil, n. a machine for grinding any substance, as grain, by crushing it between two hard, rough surfaces: a place where corn is ground, or manufacture of some kind is carried on: a contest at boxing.—v.t. to grind: to press or stamp in a mill: to stamp or turn up the edge of coin, and put ridges and furrows on the rim: to put furrows and ridges on any edge: to clean, as cloth: to beat severely with the fists.—ns. Mill′-board, stout pasteboard, used esp. in binding books; Mill′cog, a cog of a mill-wheel; Mill′dam, Mill′pond, a dam or pond to hold water for driving a mill.—adj. Milled, prepared by a grinding-mill or a coining-press: transversely grooved: treated by machinery, esp. smoothed by calendering rollers in a paper-mill.—ns. Mill′-horse, a horse that turns a mill; Mill′ing, the act of passing anything through a mill: the act of fulling cloth: the process of turning up the edge of coin and of putting the rows of ridges and furrows on it: indenting coin on the edge; Mill′race, the current of water that turns a mill-wheel, or the channel in which it runs; Mill-six′pence (Shak.), a milled sixpence; Mill′stone, one of the two stones used in a mill for grinding corn; Mill′stone-grit (geol.), a hard gritty variety of sandstone suitable for millstones; Mill′-tooth, a molar; Mill′-wheel, the water-wheel used for driving a mill; Mill′-work, the machinery of a mill: the planning and putting up of machinery in mills; Mill′wright, a wright or mechanic who builds and repairs mills.—Go through the mill, to undergo suffering or experience sufficient to fit one for certain duties or privileges; See through a millstone, to see far into or through difficult questions. [A.S. miln—L. mola, a mill—molāre, to grind.]

2. Mill

   mil, n. (U.S.) the thousandth part of a dollar. [L. mille, a thousand.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mill

   A boxing match, whether standing up or nailed to a chest.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mill

   A type of building or property for a specific purpose or business.

   The flour mill was functioning effectively and employed many people in the town.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 17, 2020  

Suggested ResourcesRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. MILL

   What does MILL stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the MILL acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. MILL

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mill is ranked #9255 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Mill surname appeared 3,518 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Mill.
   
   72.4% or 2,547 total occurrences were White.
   19.4% or 685 total occurrences were Black.
   3% or 107 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.7% or 98 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.5% or 53 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.8% or 28 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Economist
   • Grind
   • Groove
   • Move
   • Philosopher
   • Plant
   • Roll Out

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'mill' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3135

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'mill' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2862

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'mill' in Nouns Frequency: #1081

How to pronounce mill?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say mill in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of mill in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of mill in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of mill in a Sentence

1. Laxmaiah Manchikanti:

   Both are meant to control abuse and excessive use and illegitimate use of medications, florida’s pill mill law has achieved these goals.

2. Brad Segal:

   In this case with SARS Covid-19, I think it's still too early to know whether it's something specific to the pathophysiology, or if it's just because it's another run of the mill infection.

3. Dante Scala:

   It's one of the most interesting counties that no one ever talks about in New Hampshire because it's got this mix of polar opposites, very strong liberal Democrats and Tea Party Republicans. It should be a place where Donald Trump does well if he's going to do well anywhere, in working class mill cities like say Rochester and Somersworth.

4. Donald Dziva of Hwedza:

   Nowadays electricity is available only from 8pm to 5am. I sleep in my mill or butchery just to catch electricity when it's switched back on. I'm forced to sell meat or refine grain at night. My losses are massive. Two of my kids may (have to) briefly stop attending college next year.

5. Derek Holt at Scotiabank:

   There are dim hopes amidst an active rumor mill that on balance continues to portray both Greek PM Alexis Tsipras and his main banker German Chancellor Angela Merkel as uncompromising.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=mill
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=mill
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mill
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=mill
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mill
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=mill
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=mill
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=mill
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html