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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mill
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cotton mill (=factory where cotton is made into thread or cloth)
coffee mill
Mills, Heather
pepper mill
steel mill
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
▪ It has been claimed that the role of parental supervision continued into the early mills.
▪ The hours worked in the early cotton mills varied.
▪ It is altogether a more flamboyant and less forbidding building than the earlier mill.
▪ These mule spinners, assisted by women and children, were an elite group in the early textile mills.
▪ An early eighteenth-century water mill has also been re-erected at the site, with a twenty-foot wheel driving two pairs of millstones.
▪ It was one of the earliest cotton mills, built in 1785.
fulling
▪ It was recorded as a fulling mill, although it may at least inpart have been a grist mill.
▪ The site then consisted of a grist and two fulling mills.
▪ Water-powered fulling mills were not new; indeed they go back at least as far as the thirteenth century.
▪ Abingdon's trade had been waning for some time, with its fulling mills lying in ruins and unemployment rife by 1538.
▪ The combination of corn and fulling mills and dye house is encountered quite often around this period.
▪ A later reference of 1498 describes Fromebridge as corn, malt and fulling mills.
▪ In 1737 a fulling mill is recorded at Hawkshead Hill.
▪ Wiltshire fulling mills were nearly all controlled by the clothiers.
large
▪ This was one of the largest silk mills in the vicinity, although it started life as a corn mill.
▪ So were the proprietors of the largest pulp mill, who owned seven hundred feet of waterfront.
▪ Churchs found itself unable to compete any longer with the larger mills.
▪ Just south of Kirkstall Abbey is Armley Mills, once the world's largest woolen mill.
▪ The large mill owner's house is on the extreme right.
▪ Threats intensified and an organisation capable of attacking larger mills was built up.
▪ I turned into Hospital Street, past Plotnikoff's large saw mills, then came to Callender's bakery.
▪ It is said to have been at one time the world's largest spinning mill under one roof.
local
▪ Many of these local mills remain in name alone, having fallen into disuse and demolition.
▪ It is a good example of a typical local mill, of the type that was once commonplace in the region.
▪ Another local mill was known as Furnace Mill.
▪ It was run then by Henry Thomas, who owned this and a number of other local mills.
▪ The fact that it was larger than most local mills and within a few miles of Cirencester probably saved it.
▪ The Railway was built by a company formed mainly of local mill owners and opened in 1867.
▪ For 22 years he's worked at the same local newsprint mill.
▪ Up to 1939, the local flour mill was in operation and the last iron-rimmed wooden cartwheel was made the following year.
main
▪ The main mill had three water wheels and Spring Mill a single 20 foot wheel.
▪ Part of the main mill and the mill ponds have now gone.
▪ More money was invested and a steam engine installed in a purpose-built engine house attached to the main mill.
new
▪ Two new mills will begin operations in 1996.
▪ But new steel mills are starting up, which will boost supply.
▪ The water-power age produced hamlets, at the most small villages, gathered around a new mill.
▪ S., new steel mills are setting up shop.
▪ The new mill is their baby and they're looking forward to seeing it grow.
▪ But new steel mills are starting up, which some analysts expect will boost supply and depress prices over the next year.
▪ New weaving sheds were built in 1912 and a new spinning mill in 1951.
▪ The sites in Maine and Wisconsin selected for the new mills were far from ideal.
old
▪ A further three were to be built at the old carding mill at a gross rental of £10 perannum.
▪ Sure, they did need to close down some of the old mills.
▪ One restaurants is by the shore, another on top of a hill in an old sugar mill.
▪ Jeri and I got back in the car and drove south, past shrimp stands and abandoned old sugar mills.
▪ Considerable work was carried out at the old carding mill.
▪ Other engineering and light industries are filling many of the old mills and clothing factories.
▪ The old mills just stood there, quiet, closed, rusting away.
small
▪ Previously, most local grain was ground in the many small mills around the city and outlying areas.
▪ Ayliffe's Mill is an interesting reminder that not all of the small rural corn mills perished early in the century.
▪ Clearly the smaller mills were becoming uneconomic.
▪ On the far side of the village was a small water mill, probably used for grinding corn.
▪ This is a survivor of the many small country mills, the majority of which have long disappeared.
▪ This effectively shut down many of the smaller mills, such as many of those along the Carrant Brook.
▪ There was once a small water mill at Low Catton.
▪ Many of the smaller cloth mills were unable to plough sufficient money into such modernisation schemes, so fell by the wayside.
spinning
▪ In an adjoining spinning mill there is a fine collection of early spinning machinery and power looms.
▪ There are two group spinning mills based nearby.
▪ New weaving sheds were built in 1912 and a new spinning mill in 1951.
▪ The scribbling and spinning mills which were erected in the river valleys soon attracted workers' houses alongside them.
▪ It is said to have been at one time the world's largest spinning mill under one roof.
▪ The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
steel
▪ Soviet steel mills need 346,000 tonnes of coking coal a day but are getting only 200,000.
▪ Which steel mills are linked with each tinplate works?
woollen
▪ Where what is now a carriage museum was once a woollen mill where the red shirts for Garibaldi's army were made.
▪ Down below is Porth-y-Rhaw Bay, once the site of a woollen mill and a lime kiln.
▪ Several silk mills were set up around the Chalford Valley, but the majority made use of the then-vacant woollen mills.
▪ Why did the factory owners avoid the main valley of the River Aire for their woollen mills and towns?
▪ They are mostly of brick, unlike the woollen mills of Yorkshire, which are nearly always of stone.
■ NOUN
building
▪ The mill buildings house a museum of old implements and materials associated with corn production and milling.
▪ Ramsay ensconced himself in the upper storey of the mill building, where he could gain as wide a view as possible.
▪ The mill buildings themselves tower over Tewkesbury and can be seen for many miles around.
▪ Following the end of cloth-making, the mill buildings were let out to a number of tenants, providing some employment.
▪ The drive is transmitted into the adjacent mill building which houses two complete sets of grinding gear and allied crushers, etc.
cloth
▪ Henceforth the Painswick cloth mills gradually closed in the face of competition.
▪ By 1729, it had become a cloth mill worked as tenant by Edward Peach.
▪ As one of the few Gloucestershire cloth mills still in operation, may it long continue.
▪ Some cloth mills were demolished and others were converted for alternative uses.
▪ Many of the smaller cloth mills were unable to plough sufficient money into such modernisation schemes, so fell by the wayside.
▪ A cloth mill for many years, it was converted to corn.
▪ It had its own brickworks, cloth mill and farms, and was largely self-sufficient.
corn
▪ The former corn mill is owned by Bristol City Museum and is open to the public.
▪ Quite possibly it was a corn mill partially converted for fulling.
▪ This was one of the largest silk mills in the vicinity, although it started life as a corn mill.
▪ Probably the greatest number were always corn mills, those more distant being used to provide a steady income.
▪ It has remained a corn mill throughout its working life, having had no known connection with the wool trade.
▪ The name actually derives from a corn mill, recorded on the site in 1620, belonging to William Gunne.
▪ Ayliffe's Mill is an interesting reminder that not all of the small rural corn mills perished early in the century.
▪ Baked in a kiln at the old corn mill, the filling was made from mutton and fowl.
cotton
▪ The next stop was Bury in Lancashire, where home was a disused cotton mill.
▪ In California it was the cotton mill.
▪ Then came Mr Jedidiah Strutt, who built a cotton mill on the Derwent and shortly afterwards three more.
▪ The work of Wordsworth came into existence at the same time as the growing desperation in the cotton mills.
▪ They also destroyed roads, power lines, and sugar and cotton mills over a wide area.
▪ Ralph had no interest in business matters, which was evident at the cotton mill this morning.
▪ Before the coming of the cotton mill there were few opportunities for children to make a steady monetary contribution to family earnings.
▪ The ward hums the way I beard a cotton mill hum once when the football team played a high school in California.
flour
▪ At some point, the mill eventually passed to George Ford and was converted into a substantial flour mill.
▪ A flour mill was completed about May I, located on the creek.
▪ A weatherboarded flour mill, it was originally supported on open timberwork, but this has been enclosed within a brick roundhouse.
▪ If you have a flour mill at home, you have the potential for the best bread of all.
▪ Healing later left Abbey Mill, his new large steam powered Borough flour mills clearly of much greater importance.
▪ She paused by the old flour mill, another landmark of her childhood.
▪ During the 1780s he was manager and principal promoter, as well as builder and architect, of the Albion flour mill at Blackfriars.
▪ The trotting pony overtook a slow-moving cart piled high with sacks of dry-smelling wheat for a flour mill.
grist
▪ It was recorded as a fulling mill, although it may at least inpart have been a grist mill.
▪ Until then the grist mill existed, but presumably it was then demolished or converted.
▪ In addition, a grist mill was now definitely in existence, having been built, or possibly rebuilt, during the 1780s.
▪ It had two fulling stocks, a gig mill and in addition, a grist mill, not an uncommon combination.
house
▪ The mill is stone built and adjoins the mill house.
▪ Externally, it is little altered, the mill house and mill now forming an elegant dwelling and farm.
▪ An elegant mill house adjoins the mill, as do several barns, all constructed of mellowed local stone.
▪ The adjacent mill house still survives.
▪ The tailrace empties through a 100 yard tunnel that rejoins the stream after running under the mill house.
▪ It must have been rebuilt on many occasions, the present building and adjoining mill house dating from around 1726.
▪ The Lower Mill was a stone building, as was the substantial mill house.
▪ There was formerly a mill house alongside but this was demolished in 1936.
owner
▪ The railway and the quarries were the property of two brothers called McConnel, who were mill owners from Lancashire.
▪ Niklaus Andreas Lauda was born the son of a Viennese paper mill owner on 22 February 1949.
▪ Five mill owners in Lewis nevertheless spun yarn woven by the crofters.
▪ The Railway was built by a company formed mainly of local mill owners and opened in 1867.
▪ There had been a number of bankruptcies, and several mill owners left the trade.
▪ The neo-Renaissance height and grandeur were added by a mill owner, Odkolek.
paper
▪ The recent closures of the paper mill and the aluminium smelter at Invergordon lend weight to this argument.
▪ Faint news of the whistle from the nearby paper mill broadcast from the hillsides.
▪ There has been a paper mill on its site since the Tudor period.
▪ Niklaus Andreas Lauda was born the son of a Viennese paper mill owner on 22 February 1949.
▪ No mention was made of the fact that the New York Times had major interests in four paper mills.
▪ Jim also works in the Donahue paper mill, the same one as Gary.
▪ It was later converted to a paper mill.
▪ Within a few years, the last of the Forest's paper mills ceased operations.
pond
▪ The mill pond still existed during the 1950s, but has now been filled in.
▪ The mill pond is still maintained in good order although it is smaller, formerly extending right up to the back wall.
▪ To aid drainage of the area, the Leadon has been culverted, so much of the mill pond is dry.
▪ Within a few years of closure, the mill pond was filled in and much of the mill's machinery removed.
▪ Part of the main mill and the mill ponds have now gone.
▪ Much of the water control equipment and the mill pond embankments have not survived.
▪ The mill pond no longer exists, its place now taken by two fast-flowing streams.
▪ The yard was cleared, the mill pond dug out and an extensive programme of rebuilding and renovation carried out.
pulp
▪ But now they face a battle to save another from being stripped of trees for a paper and pulp mill.
▪ But that evening, pulp mill workers crept beneath the building and bored through the floor and into the barrels stored there.
▪ This land, and other former forest land, is being planted with eucalyptus to supply pulp mills.
▪ Launched with so much promise, hope, and cash, the pulp mill venture turned into a debacle.
▪ So were the proprietors of the largest pulp mill, who owned seven hundred feet of waterfront.
rumor
▪ Beyond that, they let the rumor mill dominate.
▪ Somebody better call Toronto and get the rumor mill going again.
▪ The rumor mill is churning again.
rumour
▪ The rumour mill, however, is full of likely failures.
▪ Hot off the rumour mill: Cypress Semiconductor Corp is now seriously talking about Alpha.
▪ This year the Treasury rumour mill has been working overtime.
site
▪ The first mill site is near Highnam.
▪ The local kids went to a tiny one-room schoolhouse in a shack that still stands next to the old mill site.
▪ Occasionally a mill site may be recognised.
▪ All but a hundred of these mill sites can still be accounted for.
▪ Following the Suppression, mill sites came into other hands, many being re-used time and time again.
▪ On the Worcestershire Stour, ten mill sites have been removed in as many years.
textile
▪ A textile mill developed natural fibres for special bedding to promote Kim's longevity.
▪ It's a growing town - because of the textile mills -but not growing in virtue, that I can tell you.
▪ She survived by working in a textile mill and receiving supplementary welfare.
▪ We're stuck for some ideas about the workings of a textile mill in the story.
▪ From the 1760s to the 1830s, steam engines, textile mills, and the Enlightenment produced the Industrial Revolution.
▪ There, 50 or so textile mills produce what is widely acknowledged to be the finest wool cloth in the world.
▪ Here we illustrated numerous dramatic conversions of warehouses and textile mills whose open-plan layouts made them adaptable for virtually any purpose.
town
▪ If she lived in a mill town, the choice was more or less made for her.
▪ Manchester would be a mill town, not a spa.
▪ It has been a dying mill town.
▪ The mill town replaced the farming town, and thus the forest returned.
▪ He was also approachable to folks in his hometown of Kannapolis, a rural mill town.
▪ This is the only adult literacy center in an impoverished mill town which is home to 80, 000 people.
water
▪ At one time South Cave had a water mill, and a windmill.
▪ We had walked hand in hand in the dark all the way to the water mill.
▪ The water mill was sited at Mill beck and it continued in use until the 1860s.
▪ Above and right: The home-made filter unit again makes use of planting baskets, and is disguised by the water mill.
▪ On the far side of the village was a small water mill, probably used for grinding corn.
▪ The church of St Michael and all Angels is on a ridge overlooking the river and the old water mill.
▪ An early eighteenth-century water mill has also been re-erected at the site, with a twenty-foot wheel driving two pairs of millstones.
▪ There are the remains of a medieval stone-built water mill on the stream below.
worker
▪ He was older than Miss Harker and he didn't look like a mill worker, nor yet a wealthy man.
▪ The study found higher rates of lung, nasal and laryngeal cancer among miners and mill workers.
▪ But that evening, pulp mill workers crept beneath the building and bored through the floor and into the barrels stored there.
▪ The teacher stayed with the mill workers at the company boardinghouse.
■ VERB
build
▪ His forefathers had built the mills, and it hadn't been a particularly easy life.
▪ It said it would build a rail mill but wanted concessions.
▪ Then came Mr Jedidiah Strutt, who built a cotton mill on the Derwent and shortly afterwards three more.
▪ At the top were the lawns and grand columned homes built by the Sutherlands, who had also built the mill.
▪ It was the same man who built Sovovy mill in neo-Gothic style.
▪ But the man who built the mill had saved the town by renaming it.
close
▪ Rescue close for historic mill Dangerfield Mills at Hawick was once famous for its tweed.
▪ So Harvester tried to close the mill indirectly.
grind
▪ Flour is ground at the mill and can be bought form the mill shop.
▪ I go with my friend Alice Abau Elia to the grinding mill nearest to her home.
▪ At the grinding mill, a line of women sit in the dirt behind the bags of maize.
▪ There is a shortage of grinding mills at present.
▪ They can be ground in a mill, but should first be roasted in a frying pan.
operate
▪ Then it was in the hands of the Foley family, who were also operating Guns mill at Abenhall.
▪ In 1988, Nucor operated seven steel mills at four sites.
▪ The last miller was Mr William Stallworthy, who operated the mill from 1900 until his retirement in 1977.
▪ Wathen continued to operate the mill up to 1818, but by 1820, Joseph and Obadiah Paul Wathen were in control.
▪ Grist and Tabram operated the mill later in its life.
power
▪ Both have powered mills, but the Carrant Brook was much more heavily utilised.
▪ Further upstream towards Brockworth, the brook also powered a corn mill, but of Brockworth Mill there is now little trace.
▪ This formerly powered a number of mills, involved in some way with the cloth trade.
▪ Healing later left Abbey Mill, his new large steam powered Borough flour mills clearly of much greater importance.
▪ This powered a mill at Ruspidge near Cinderford.
▪ Under their control, a huge new mill pond was constructed, to feed the five water wheels that powered the mill.
▪ The Blackpool Brook also powered the old mill at Nibley.
run
▪ It's run of the mill.
▪ It could keep running the mill as if it still owned it.
▪ For part of its life, the site was run as two separate mills, known as the Abbey and Town Mills.
▪ Tubbs and Lewis ran the mill for some time but finally ceased production there.
▪ They worked the mill for five years, after which Edward Palling, who also ran Brookhouse mill, took over.
▪ Lakes and Mountain holidays are very different to run of the mill summer holidays.
▪ The tailrace empties through a 100 yard tunnel that rejoins the stream after running under the mill house.
sell
▪ But you know we have been talking about selling the mills because we need money.
▪ The Sutherlands had sold off the mill and its surrounding holdings to absentee landlords, multi-national corporations, outsiders.
work
▪ Water also came down to the mill from a cutting, possibly working a mill wheel.
▪ He bootlegged whiskey, pumped gas, worked in a steel mill handling hot wire, stole hubcaps.
▪ By the 1930s, Wyman had been replaced by Charles Dee, who worked the mill throughout the decade.
▪ I began to work in steel mills when I was seventeen to support my education.
▪ She survived by working in a textile mill and receiving supplementary welfare.
▪ They worked the mill for five years, after which Edward Palling, who also ran Brookhouse mill, took over.
▪ His parents were indeed immigrants and they worked in the lumber mills of Arcata, California.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(all) grist to the mill
▪ Humans had become mere technical grist to the mill like any base metal.
▪ In fact, all the events' of daily life are grist to the mill of these popular singers.
▪ This is all grist to the mill of orthodox social democratic analyses of crime.
the rumour mill
▪ Hot off the rumour mill: Cypress Semiconductor Corp is now seriously talking about Alpha.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a lumber mill
▪ an old mill with a ruined water-wheel
▪ The movie has earned almost $2 mill in the first weekend.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An entirely new idea for the running of mills and the organising of the mill-workers.
▪ Last week some one had laced the coffee in the mill with arsenic.
▪ Taylor's map of 1777 shows four mills on its lower section, with a number of others further upstream.
▪ The former corn mill is owned by Bristol City Museum and is open to the public.
▪ The missions were not merely churches but entire working communities, with farms, blacksmiths, flour mills and residences.
▪ They even lost two weeks of wages because the paychecks bounced without warning when the mill suddenly closed in March 1980.
▪ Writers of the time talked about how factories and mills dehumanized workers.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
▪ People milled about casually, talking amongst themselves, eating and drinking.
▪ Our small cortège milled about in the courtyard near the large double-barred gate of the palace.
▪ Startled, the pack had run for the shelter of the trees, where they had milled about uncertainly.
around
▪ It was a dark overcast day; the people milling around all looked grey.
▪ Everyone white was milling around in the road, and he had to watch out for children.
▪ Humans were milling around the base of the Ship.
▪ People have been coming in and milling around to see if we actually have it.
▪ Here, milling around the caviare, dwells all the menace and the glamour of the Unseen World.
▪ There were people milling around on the streets.
▪ Two days later mobs milled around as William Lloyd Garrison began to speak.
■ NOUN
crowd
▪ The crowd milled around chatting and exchanging tips, hawking and spitting, slurping tea and placing bets.
▪ A large crowd milled there despite the cold wind which lashed face and hand.
▪ Simon had disappeared into the crowd still milling about the hall, and fitzAlan was standing before her.
▪ As we explored the district we came upon a crowd milling on the pavement.
people
▪ By 11am 1,000 people were milling around Parliament Square, keeping off the grass, and greeting old friends.
▪ There were people milling around on the streets.
▪ It was a dark overcast day; the people milling around all looked grey.
▪ The crack house lust off Kelly Street was crowded, people milling around outside.
▪ Embarrassed, I waited. People milled past, skirting me as though I were bad luck.
▪ He looked around. People were milling.
▪ Chesarynth gripped it convulsively at the strange sight of people milling around.
▪ When I arrived, there were lots of people milling around and shouting.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Harrison joined a crowd of about 5000 milling outside the radio station.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In a conference room, there is a thirty-foot table milled from a single piece of green malachite.
▪ Leeming was standing in the middle of the third car, surrounded by sheep who milled round his feet.
▪ Others were milling around on the grass to no apparent purpose.
▪ The carbon in pulp process uses higher grade ore which is crushed, milled and mixed with chemical solutions in large tanks.
▪ The curds of two days' cheesemaking are mixed together before being milled and pressed.
▪ The guests milled round in confusion.
▪ Then, I switched to old, soft aluminum, milled from a single block.
▪ They milled together and dismounted, the two Myrcans immediately running to the rear to intercept the pursuit.
Related phrases:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mill

Mill \Mill\ (m[i^]l), n. [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.

Mill

Mill \Mill\, n. [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)

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

    2. 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.

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

  12. A building or complex of buildings containing a mill[1] or other machinery to grind grains into flour.

    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.

Mill

Mill \Mill\, v. i. (Zo["o]l.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.

2. To undergo hulling, as maize.

3. To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain; to move around aimlessly; -- usually used with around.

The deer and the pig and the nilghar were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius.
--Kipling.

4. To swim suddenly in a new direction; -- said of whales.

5. To take part in a mill; to box. [Cant]

Mill

Mill \Mill\ (m[i^]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Milled (m[i^]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Milling.] [See Mill, n., 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.

Mill

Mill \Mill\, v. t.

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

  2. To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle.

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mill

"one-tenth cent," 1786, an original U.S. currency unit but now used only for tax calculation purposes, shortening of Latin millesimum "one-thousandth," from mille "a thousand" (see million). Formed on the analogy of cent, which is short for Latin centesimus "one hundredth" (of a dollar).

mill

"to keep moving round and round in a mass," 1874 (implied in milling), originally of cattle, from mill (n.1) on resemblance to the action of a mill wheel. Related: Milled.

mill

"to grind," 1550s, from mill (n.1). Related: milled; milling.

mill

"building fitted to grind grain," Old English mylen "a mill" (10c.), an early Germanic borrowing from Late Latin molina, molinum "mill" (source of French moulin, Spanish molino), originally fem. and neuter of molinus "pertaining to a mill," from Latin mola "mill, millstone," related to molere "to grind," from PIE *mel- (1) "soft," with derivatives referring to ground material and tools for grinding (source also of Greek myle "mill;" see mallet).\n

\nAlso from Late Latin molina, directly or indirectly, are German Mühle, Old Saxon mulin, Old Norse mylna, Danish mølle, Old Church Slavonic mulinu. Broader sense of "grinding machine" is attested from 1550s. Other types of manufacturing machines driven by wind or water, whether for grinding or not, began to be called mills by early 15c. Sense of "building fitted with industrial machinery" is from c.1500.

Wiktionary
mill

Etymology 1 n. 1 A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. 2 The building housing such a grinding apparatus. 3 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. 4 A machine for grinding and polishing. 5 The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw. 6 A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc. 7 A building housing such a plant. 8 An establishment that handles a certain type of situation routinely, such as a divorce mill, etc. 9 (label en informal) an engine 10 (label en informal) a boxing match, fistfight Etymology 2

n. 1 An obsolete coin with value one-thousandth of a dollar, or one-tenth of a cent. 2 One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax. Etymology 3

vb. 1 (label en transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine. 2 (label en transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine. 3 (label en transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin). 4 (label en intransitive followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion. 5 (label en transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around. 6 (label en zoology of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater. 7 (label en zoology of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction. 8 (label en transitive slang) To beat; to pound. 9 To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth. 10 (cx transitive English) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars. 11 (cx transitive English) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning. 12 (cx intransitive English) To undergo hulling. 13 (cx intransitive slang English) To take part in a fistfight; to box. 14 (cx transitive mining English) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom. 15 (label en trading card games) To place cards into the discard pile directly from the draw pile.

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mill

  1. v. 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

mill

  1. n. 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]

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Mill (currency)

The mill or mille (₥) (sometimes mil in the UK, when discussing property taxes in the United States, or previously in Cyprus and Malta) is a now-abstract unit of currency used sometimes in accounting. In the United States, it is a notional unit equivalent to of a United States dollar (a one-hundredth of a dime or a tenth of a cent). In the United Kingdom it was proposed during the decades of discussion on the decimalization of the pound as a division of the pound sterling. Several other currencies used the mill, such as the Maltese lira.

The term comes from the Latin "millesimum", meaning "thousandth part".

Mill (grinding)

A mill is a device that breaks solid materials into smaller pieces by grinding, crushing, or cutting. Such comminution is an important unit operation in many processes. There are many different types of mills and many types of materials processed in them. Historically mills were powered by hand (e.g., via a hand crank), working animal (e.g., horse mill), wind ( windmill) or water ( watermill). Today they are usually 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.

Milling also refers to the process of breaking down, separating, sizing, or classifying aggregate material. For instance rock crushing or grinding to produce uniform aggregate size for construction purposes, or separation of rock, soil or aggregate material for the purposes of structural fill or land reclamation activities. Aggregate milling processes are also used to remove or separate contamination or moisture from aggregate or soil and to produce "dry fills" prior to transport or structural filling.

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
Mill (heraldry)

Mill are sometimes used as a charge in heraldry, usually as a sign for agricultural or industrial endevours.

Mill

Mill may refer to:

  • Mill (grinding)
  • Manufacturing facilities categorized by their power source:
    • Watermill, a mill powered by moving water
    • Windmill, a mill powered by moving air (wind)
    • Tide mill, a water mill that uses the tide's movement
    • Treadmill, a mill powered by human or animal movement
      • Horse mill, a mill powered by horses' movement
  • Manufacturing facilities categorized by their mobile/non- building design
    • Ship mill, a water mill that floats on the river or bay whose current or tide provides the water movement
    • Field mill (carriage), a portable mill
  • Manufacturing facility categorized by what material is made (output) or acted upon (input) (or both):
    • Gristmill, a grain mill (flour mill)
    • Ore mill, for crushing and processing ore
    • Paper mill
    • Sugar cane mill
    • Sawmill, a lumber mill
    • Steel mill
    • Textile mills for textile manufacturing:
      • Cotton mill
      • Woollen mill
    • Wire mill, for wire drawing
  • Or many other kinds of mills. See :Category:Industrial buildings
  • Mill (heraldry)
  • Industrial tool for size reduction ( comminution) and/or filtration:
    • Ball mill, a mill using balls to crush the material
    • Burr mill, a mill using burrs to crush the material, usually manufactured for a single purpose such as coffee beans, dried peppercorns, coarse salt, spices, or poppy seeds
    • Cutting mill, a device commonly used in laboratories for the preliminary size reduction of materials
    • End mill, a type of milling cutter used in milling in the machining sense
    • Hammermill, a mill using little hammers to crush the material
    • Milling machine, a machine tool that performs milling (machining)
    • Pin mill, a mill for achieving very fine particle sizes
    • Roller mill, a mill using rollers
    • Rolling mill, for rolling (metalworking)
      • Strip mill, a type of rolling mill
    • Slitting mill, for slitting metal into nails
    • VSI mill, a mill with a vertical shaft that spins
    • A wet mill performs wet-milling: steeps a substance in water to remove specific compounds

In computing:

  • Arithmetic logic unit, used in the context of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, a 19th-century concept for a mechanical computer
  • Early term for the central processing unit of a digital computer, especially in early British machines; the term is still occasionally used to refer to the CPU resources consumed by a program
  • Mill architecture, a family of general-purpose CPUs using a belt machine computer architecture

Other meanings:

  • Mill (currency), a denomination used in some currencies, equivalent to a tenth of a cent or penny, or a thousandth of the currency unit
  • Diploma mill or degree mill, an organization which awards academic degrees and diplomas with little or no academic study and without recognition by official accrediting bodies
  • A short name for Nine Men's Morris, a traditional board game; within the game it can mean three (playing pieces) in a row
  • Windmill (b-boy move) or mill, a power move in b-boying (breakdancing)
  • The Mill (post-production), a visual effects company
  • The Mill (Ipswich), an apartment complex located on the Waterfront in Ipswich, Suffolk, England
  • Slang term for a manual typewriter
  • Mill. is the standard author abbreviation to indicate botanist Philip Miller's work when citing a botanical name
  • Millage, a property tax

People named Mill:

  • Andy Mill (born 1953), a skier
  • Frank Mill (born 1958), a German football player (World Cup winner, Summer Olympics bronze medalist)
  • Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858), a philosopher and women's rights advocate
  • James Mill (1773–1836), a Scottish historian, economist and philosopher
  • John Mill (theologian) (c. 1645–1707), an English theologian and author of Novum Testamentum Graecum
  • John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), an influential classical liberal thinker and philosopher of the 19th century, son of James Mill

In geography:

  • Mill, Netherlands, a Dutch village
  • Mill en Sint Hubert, a Dutch municipality

MILL may refer to:

  • Major Indoor Lacrosse League, the American indoor lacrosse league, rebranded in 1997 as the National Lacrosse League
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Usage examples of "mill".

Kicking Acorn to a gallop, she jumped a hedge and raced toward the mill.

All I get is cfiticism and admonitions to put my girls to wojk in the mill.

Their aircraft, milling about north of Chiang Mai, stood out clearly on radar, and his scouts had reported Thai airmobile forces gathering several kilometers to the southeast.

There should be a hitching post, Alan thought, a stagecoach rattling by, a dozen extras milling around.

Others milled happily around Alec, slapping him with their plumed tails and sniffing hopefully at the swans hanging at his saddlebow.

Call Hugh of the Mill, and Woodman Wat, and Raoul with his arbalest and bolts.

At the first arpeggiated tracings of A minor, the rats begin milling, rumoring among themselves.

The atheling was relegated to the milling crowd on the floor, where he was almost impossible to defend properly.

When the autobahn went into an overpass he could look down to the right and see it stretching away into the December night, thousands of hectares of lights and mills, aglow from a thousand furnaces churning out the wealth of the economic miracle.

Bengalis and Highlanders hunted through the ruins, their war cries shrill as they bayoneted and shot the garrison, while behind them, before the smoke of the carcasses had even begun to fade or the fighting in the mill die down, the engineers were constructing a stouter bridge across which they could haul their siege guns so they could turn the old mill into a breaching battery.

For the next five years you will receive a reasonable monthly allowance either from these same bank trustees or from one Miss Lillian Bede who, upon my death, has been offered the management of Mill House and who will, at the end of five years, inherit the estate should it demonstrably profit under her management.

Miss Bede loses this Mill House, why would Avery have to assume responsibility for her?

Miss Bede had, in her usual subtle way, made known her intention of winning Mill House.

Christina, a dozen plans milling around inside her head, assured him, with no truth at all, that she would and went to pack up her things, joined presently by Mevrouw Beek, quite tearful at parting with her.

How would the refineries, the factories, the mills, the farms, all the rest of it, work without biped labour?