mill
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English mylne, mille, from Old English mylen, from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu (“mill”), from Late Latin molīna, molīnum, molīnus (“mill”), from Latin molō (“grind, mill”, verb), closely allied to Proto-Germanic *muljaną (“to crush, grind”) (see English millstone). Perhaps cognate with Milne (a surname). Doublet of moline, moulin, and blin.
Inflected forms:
form: mills
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: miln
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: mills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: milling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: milled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: milled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. (Some are small and simple, and some are large and complex.)
pos: noun
examples: Pepper has a stronger flavor when it is ground straight from a mill.
gloss: The building housing such a grinding apparatus; also, any similar building that houses a similarly material activity (such as weaving, fulling, dying, etc.); the place of business comprising such a building and its outbuildings and grounds.
pos: noun
examples: My great-grandfather worked in a mill. He filled the flour sacks and then carried and loaded them.
[…] for the Townsfolk will go to thy mill, and grind their corn […] at their own good pleasure; nor can I hinder them, since they are free men.
On Sept. 9 a boiler exploded in Hanke's flouring mill, […]
Under the reorganization the branch mill was designated as Dah Sun Mill No. 2. In subsequent years Chang Chien had ambitious plans for further expansion. Eventually four Dah Sun mills were established, two in Nan-t'ung and one each in Ch'ung-ming and Hai-men, although plans for the founding of mills in Ju-kao, Tung-t'ai, Yen-ch'eng, and elsewhere in Kiangsu were never realized.
That first batch of yarn set the pattern for Knudsen Knits: Farah seeks out local wool growers, selects fleeces, and works with small local mills to produce yarn.
gloss: 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; any similar apparatus that otherwise processes.
pos: noun
examples: a cider mill; a cane mill
gloss: A machine for grinding and polishing.
pos: noun
examples: a lapidary mill
gloss: A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
pos: noun
examples: Several machinists were busy operating the lathes, mills, and drill presses on the shop floor.
gloss: A milling cutter used on such a machine.
pos: noun
examples: After the drilling and tapping operations, we come in with a mill and do some contouring.
gloss: A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, flooring, and some other kinds of materials.
pos: noun
examples: Once the billet gets through the 56-inch mill, it is ready for reheating.
gloss: The building complex housing such a plant; the place of business comprising such buildings and their grounds.
pos: noun
examples: My grandfather worked in a mill. He operated machinery, did maintenance, and drove forklifts.
gloss: An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality. (The notion of churning out massive amounts indiscriminately underlies the figurative metaphor.)
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
figuratively
usually
examples: Those shysters selling the purebreds are running quite a mill over there, eh?
gloss: An institution or pseudo-institutional business awarding credentials (such as diplomas, degrees, certificates, or certifications) of either dubious value or fraudulent nature; one selling essays or other documents for the buyers (usually students) to fraudulently pass off as their own.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
figuratively
examples: Those shysters cranking out the "IT training certificates" are running quite a mill over there, eh?
gloss: An engine.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Under the hood is a mill that you and I can't afford — a nitrous-blown hemi with custom heads.
gloss: A boxing match or fistfight.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
informal
examples: They were betting big on a great mill, but they didn't realize that the fix was in.
[…] he is relieved from present responsibility to the Chicken, by the absence of that game head of poultry in the country, training (at Toots's cost) for his great mill with the Larkey Boy.
The mill lasted four rounds, when giddy little Ettie was declared the victress.
The name of the "white hope" against whom Billy was to go was sufficient to draw a fair house, and there were some there who had seen Billy in other fights and looked for a good mill.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
pos: noun
examples: They pulled me off the main crew and had me digging in the mill.
gloss: A passage underground through which ore is shot.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: country
The geologists were responsible for keeping the work within the mill.
gloss: The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
pos: noun
gloss: A prison treadmill.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: They kept us in line by threatening to put us on the mill twice as long if we complained.
Next morning they put me on the treadmill along with the others: At first, not knowing how to dance it, I cut all my shin with the steps; they did not flog me then — […] They keep on putting her on the mill for a week, and flog her every time […]
gloss: A military prison, either guardhouse or post prison.
pos: noun
tags: US
World-War-I
slang
examples: He spent some time in the mill after that escapade.
gloss: A delousing station: a cootie mill.
pos: noun
tags: World-War-I
slang
gloss: A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
pos: noun
examples: In other words, get a mill in your operating position by hook or crook and use it regularly. At the N.C.R. Radio Schools touch typing is taught at the same time code proficiency is advanced.
You can read it all right, but the pencil seems to be getting a little sluggish — better make a grab for a "mill."
gloss: To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to mill flour
gloss: To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To move about in an aimless fashion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
usually
examples: I didn't have much to do, so I just milled around the town looking at the shops.
The deer and the pig and the nilghai were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius, while the Eaters of Flesh skirmished round its edge.
As guests milled around them, he [Zuckerberg] described his goal of turning every person in the country with an internet connection into a Facebook user.
gloss: To cause to mill, or circle around.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to mill cattle
gloss: To swim underwater.
pos: verb
gloss: To swim suddenly in a new direction.
pos: verb
gloss: To beat; to pound.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Ortheris said nothing for a while. Then he unslung his belt, heavy with the badges of half a dozen regiments that his own had lain with, and handed it over to Mulvaney.
"I'm too little for to mill you, Mulvaney," said he, "an' you've strook me before; but you can take an' cut me in two with this 'ere if you like."
[…]he had “milled” a policeman
gloss: To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
pos: verb
gloss: To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To undergo hulling.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This maize mills well.
gloss: To take part in a fistfight; to box.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
gloss: To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To commit burglary.
pos: verb
tags: UK
obsolete
examples: Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.
And why not?—You would think little of peaching and hanging him for this Scotch affair.—Rat me, one might have milled the Bank of England, and less noise about it.
Derived words: abortion mill
accreditation mill
ant mill
author mill
ball mill
Barker's mill
bark mill
blowing mill
born in a mill
catmill
cat mill
Chilean mill
chop mill
chopping mill
coffee-mill
coffee mill
cog mill
content mill
cornmill
cotton mill
cryomill
dark satanic mill
degree mill
diploma mill
edge mill
Ellicott's Mills
endmill
essay mill
every miller draws water to his own mill
fanning mill
feed mill
flint mill
flourmill
flour mill
food mill
fulling mill
gastric mill
gig-mill
gin mill
gossip-mill
gossip mill
go through the mill
grist for the mill
grist mill
gristmill
grist to the mill
hammermill
handmill
hollow post mill
jar mill
jill-mill
kitten mill
lapidary's mill
lead mill
light mill
lumbermill
Medicaid mill
micromill
Milford
mill bar
millboard
mill car
mill cinder
mill course
Mill Creek
mill dam
mill drill
milldust
Milledgeville
miller
mill fever
millful
millhand
mill head
Mill Hill
millhouse
milling
mill-leat
millman
mill moth
millocracy
millocrat
millowner
Mill Park
mill pick
millpond
millpool
mill-race
mill race
millrace
millrat
mill rate
millrind
millrun
mill scale
millsite
mill-sixpence
millstead
millstone
Millstone
mill-stone
millstream
mill stream
mill tail
mill tooth
Milltown
mill-turn
mill-wand
Millward
mill wheel
millwheel
millwork
millworker
millworks
millwright
minimill
Mississippi Mills
more sacks on the mill
more sacks to the mill
mouse mill
no mill, no meal
oil mill
Old Mill
ordination mill
paper mill
pebble mill
pecker mill
pepper mill
pilger mill
pill mill
pin mill
post mill
powder mill
powdermill
prayer mill
praying mill
pugmill
pug mill
pulp mill
puppy mill
put through the mill
raw mill
Rhea's Mill
rice mill
rice-mill
Ridings Mill
roller mill
rolling mill
roll mill
roughing mill
Rous Mill
rum mill
rumor mill
rumour mill
run-of-the-mill
run of the mill
run-o'-the-mill
run o' the mill
satanic mill
sawmill
shaving mill
Singletons Mill
skew rolling mill
slitting mill
smock mill
spider mill
stacks on the mill
stamping mill
stamp mill
steel mill
Stone Mills
sugar-mill
sugar mill
the mill cannot grind with water that is past
threadmill
through the mill
tidal mill
tide mill
trouble at mill
trouble at the mill
trouble at t'mill
tumbling mill
Union Mills
walk-mill
watermill
water to one's mill
waukmill
waulkmill
whinmill
windmill
wind mill
wind-mill
winnowing mill
wip mill
free-milling
millability
millable
mill about
mill around
nonmilled
remill
unmilled
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: фа́брика
roman: fábrika
lang: Dutch
word: fabriek
lang: Dutch
word: papierfabriek
lang: Dutch
word: staalfabriek
lang: Dutch
word: textielfabriek
lang: Finnish
word: tehdas
lang: Finnish
word: tehdasrakennus
lang: French
word: manufacture
lang: German
word: Fabrik
lang: German
word: Werk
lang: German
word: Papiermühle
lang: Greek
word: εργοστάσιο
roman: ergostásio
lang: Hebrew
word: טַחֲנָה
roman: takhaná
lang: Hungarian
word: gyár
lang: Hungarian
word: üzem
lang: Hungarian
word: telep
lang: Hungarian
word: -mű
lang: Latgalian
word: moltuve
lang: Latvian
word: maltuve
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: mølle
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: fabrikk
lang: Polish
word: fabryka
lang: Portuguese
word: fábrica
lang: Russian
word: фа́брика
roman: fábrika
lang: Russian
word: заво́д
roman: zavód
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: muileann
lang: Spanish
word: fábrica
lang: Turkish
word: bina
lang: Turkish
word: yapı