 9 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mill
noun
1: a plant consisting of buildings with facilities for
manufacturing [syn: {factory}, {manufacturing plant}, {manufactory}]
2: Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism;
father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836) [syn: {James Mill}]
3: English philosopher and economist remembered for his
interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism
(1806-1873) [syn: {John Mill}, {John Stuart Mill}]
4: machine that processes materials by grinding or crushing
[syn: {grinder}]
5: the act of grinding to a powder or dust [syn: {grind}, {pulverization},
{pulverisation}]
verb
1: move about in a confused manner [syn: {mill about}, {mill
around}]
2: grind with a mill; "mill grain"
3: produce a ridge around the edge of; "mill a coin"
4: roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mill \Mill\ (m[i^]l), noun [L. mille a thousand. Cf. {Mile}.]
A money of account of the United States, having the value of
the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mill \Mill\, noun [OE. mille, melle, mulle, milne, AS. myln,
mylen; akin to D. molen, G. m["u]hle, OHG. mul[=i], mul[=i]n,
Icel. mylna; all prob. from L. molina, fr. mola millstone;
prop., that which grinds, akin to molere to grind, Goth.
malan, G. mahlen, and to E. meal. [root]108. See Meal flour,
and cf. {Moline}.]
1. A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as
grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough,
or indented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a
bone mill.
2. 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.
3. A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. (Die Sinking) A hardened steel roller having a design in
relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design
in a softer metal, as copper.
7. (Mining)
(a) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings,
from which material for filling is obtained.
(b) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
8. A milling cutter. See Illust. under {Milling}.
9. A pugilistic encounter. [Cant] --R. D. Blackmore.
10. Short for {Treadmill}.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
11. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling
anything, as a coin or screw.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
12. A building or complex of buildings containing a mill[1]
or other machinery to grind grains into flour.
[PJC]
{Edge mill}, {Flint mill}, etc. See under {Edge}, {Flint},
etc.
{Mill bar} (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly
from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant
iron in the mill.
{Mill cinder}, slag from a puddling furnace.
{Mill head}, the head of water employed to turn the wheel of
a mill.
{Mill pick}, a pick for dressing millstones.
{Mill pond}, a pond that supplies the water for a mill.
{Mill race}, the canal in which water is conveyed to a mill
wheel, or the current of water which drives the wheel.
{Mill tail}, the water which flows from a mill wheel after
turning it, or the channel in which the water flows.
{Mill tooth}, a grinder or molar tooth.
{Mill wheel}, the water wheel that drives the machinery of a
mill.
{Gin mill}, a tavern; a bar; a saloon; especially, a cheap or
seedy establishment that serves liquor by the drink.
{Roller mill}, a mill in which flour or meal is made by
crushing grain between rollers.
{Stamp mill} (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed by
stamps.
{To go through the mill}, to experience the suffering or
discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of
knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mill \Mill\, verb (used without an object) (Zo["o]l.)
To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
2. To undergo hulling, as maize.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain; to move
around aimlessly; -- usually used with around.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The deer and the pig and the nilghar were milling
round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles
radius. --Kipling.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. To swim suddenly in a new direction; -- said of whales.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
5. To take part in a mill; to box. [Cant]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mill \Mill\ (m[i^]l), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Milled} (m[i^]ld); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Milling}.] [See {Mill}, noun, and cf. {Muller}.]
1. To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a
mill; to grind; to comminute.
2. To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a
machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by
means of a rotary cutter.
3. 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.
4. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
5. To beat with the fists. [Cant] --Thackeray.
6. To roll into bars, as steel.
{To mill chocolate}, to make it frothy, as by churning.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mill \Mill\, verb (used with an object)
1. (Mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken
ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
292 Moby Thesaurus words for "mill":
C, C-note, G, G-note, Vandyke, abrade, amble, armory, arrastra,
arsenal, assemble, assembly line, assembly plant,
atomic energy plant, atomize, average, ball mill, basic,
be turbulent, beat, bindery, blaze, blooming mill, boatyard,
boilery, bone mill, bookbindery, bray, brecciate, brewery,
brickyard, buck, bunch, bunch up, cane mill, cannery, cartwheel,
carve, cent, century, cheese grater, chisel, chop, cider mill,
clot, cluster, collect, come together, comminute, comminutor,
common, congregate, contriturate, converge, convert, copper,
copulate, couple, creamery, crenellate, crenulate, crimp, crowd,
crumb, crumble, crunch, crush, crusher, cultivate, cut, dairy,
date, defense plant, dime, disintegrate, distillery, dockyard,
dollar, dollar bill, drag-stone mill, everyday, experienced,
extract, factory, factory belt, factory district, feeder plant,
fifty cents, fin, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars,
five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver,
flock together, flour, flour mill, flow together, forgather,
foundry, four bits, fragment, frogskin, fuse, gang around, gang up,
garden-variety, gash, gather, gather around, grain, grand,
granulate, granulator, granulize, grate, grater, grind,
grind to powder, grinder, grinding mill, gristmill, grow, half G,
half a C, half dollar, half grand, hardened, harvest,
herd together, hive, horde, huddle, hundred-dollar bill,
in the know, incise, indent, industrial park, industrial zone,
instrument, iron man, jag, knowledgeable, knurl, kominuter,
lapidary mill, league, levigate, levigator, link, machicolate,
machine, main plant, manufactory, manufacturing plant,
manufacturing quarter, mash, masher, mass, masticate, meander,
mechanize, meet, merge, mill around, milling machine, millstone,
mince, mine, mint, moil, mortar and pestle, motorize,
munitions plant, muster, nick, nickel, notch, nutmeg grater,
oil refinery, ordinary, packing house, paper mill, penny,
pepper mill, pestle, picot, pink, plant, pottery, pound, powder,
power plant, process, production line, pulverize, pulverizer, pump,
push-button plant, quarter, quern, quernstone, raise, rally,
rally around, rear, red cent, reduce to powder, refine, refinery,
rendezvous, retool, rock crusher, roil, roller, rolling mill,
run-of-the-mill, sawbuck, sawmill, scallop, scarify, score, scotch,
scrunch, seasoned, seethe, serrate, shard, sharpen, sheet mill,
shipyard, shop, shred, shredder, silk mill, silver dollar, simple,
skin, slab mill, slash, smacker, smash, smelt, smoothing mill,
sophisticated, spice mill, squash, stamp mill, stamps, steamroller,
steel mill, stir, stream, stroll, subassembly plant, sugar mill,
sugar refinery, surge, swarm, tannery, ten cents, ten-spot, tenner,
thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, throng, tool, tooth,
toughened, treadmill, triturate, triturator, twenty-dollar bill,
twenty-five cents, two bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot,
unexceptional, unite, unremarkable, walk, wander, water mill,
windmill, winery, woolen mill, works, workshop, yard, yards
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
mill
{Arithmetic and Logic Unit}
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Mill
for grinding corn, mentioned as used in the time of Abraham
(Gen. 18:6). That used by the Hebrews consisted of two circular
stones, each 2 feet in diameter and half a foot thick, the lower
of which was called the "nether millstone" (Job 41:24) and the
upper the "rider." The upper stone was turned round by a stick
fixed in it as a handle. There were then no public mills, and
thus each family required to be provided with a hand-mill. The
corn was ground daily, generally by the women of the house (Isa.
47:1, 2; Matt. 24:41). It was with the upper stone of a
hand-mill that "a certain woman" at Thebez broke Abimelech's
skull (Judg. 9:53, "a piece of a millstone;" literally, "a
millstone rider", i.e., the "runner," the stone which revolves.
Comp. 2 Sam. 11:21). Millstones could not be pledged (Deut.
24:6), as they were necessary in every family.
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