mill

B2
Pronunciation
/mɪl/
Noun
27 definition(s)
1 Definition

A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.

Example Sentences
  • Pepper has a stronger flavor when it is ground straight from a mill.
2 Definition

The building housing such a grinding apparatus.

Example Sentences
  • My grandfather worked in a mill.
3 Definition

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.

Example Sentences
  • a cider mill; a cane mill
4 Definition

A machine for grinding and polishing.

Example Sentences
  • a lapidary mill
5 Definition

The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.

6 Definition

A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.

Example Sentences
  • a steel mill
7 Definition

A building housing such a plant.

8 Definition

An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.

9 Definition

An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised

10 Definition

An engine.

11 Definition

A boxing match, fistfight.

12 Definition

(die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.

13 Definition

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

14 Definition

A passage underground through which ore is shot.

15 Definition

A milling cutter.

16 Definition

A treadmill.

17 Definition

A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.

18 Definition

An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.

19 Definition

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

20 Definition

An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to 1⁄6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 1⁄6000 and 1⁄6300 are used in other countries.

21 Definition

A unit of measurement equal to 1⁄1000 of an inch, usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.

22 Definition

A former subdivision (1/1000) of the Maltese lira

23 Definition

(plural "mil") Abbreviation of million.

24 Definition

A unit of measure of capacity, being one thousandth of a litre. Symbol: ml

25 Definition

A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.

26 Definition

(trading card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.

27 Definition

(trading card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.

Verb
17 definition(s)
1 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • to mill flour
2 Definition

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

3 Definition

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

4 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • I didn't have much to do, so I just milled around the town looking at the shops.
5 Definition

To cause to mill, or circle around.

Example Sentences
  • to mill cattle
6 Definition

(of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.

7 Definition

(of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.

8 Definition

To beat; to pound.

9 Definition

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

10 Definition

To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.

11 Definition

To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.

12 Definition

To undergo hulling.

Example Sentences
  • This maize mills well.
13 Definition

To take part in a fistfight; to box.

14 Definition

To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.

15 Definition

(thieves' cant) To commit burglary.

16 Definition

(trading card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.

17 Definition

(Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.