Crossword clues for milling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
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.
To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
To beat with the fists. [Cant]
--Thackeray.-
To roll into bars, as steel.
To mill chocolate, to make it frothy, as by churning.
Milling \Mill"ing\, n. The act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill; the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or intented edge upon coin, etc.; the process of dressing surfaces of various shapes with rotary cutters. See Mill.
High milling, milling in which grain is reduced to flour by a succession of crackings, or of slight and partial crushings, alternately with sifting and sorting the product.
Low milling, milling in which the reduction is effected in a single crushing or grinding.
Milling cutter, a fluted, sharp-edged rotary cutter for dressing surfaces, as of metal, of various shapes.
Milling machine, a machine tool for dressing surfaces by rotary cutters.
Milling tool, a roller with indented edge or surface, for producing like indentations in metal by rolling pressure, as in turning; a knurling tool; a milling cutter.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"act or business of grinding in a mill," mid-15c., verbal noun \nfrom mill (v.1).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The series of notches around the edge of a coin, placed there during minting so that it can be told if some of the metal from the edge is removed. Removing metal from a coin was common practice during earlier times when coins made of precious metals circulated. 2 A grinding process using a mill vb. (present participle of mill English)
WordNet
n. corrugated edge of a coin
Wikipedia
Milling may refer to:
- Milling (grinding), the process of grinding grain or other materials in a mill
- Milling (machining), the process of machining metal via non-abrasive rotary cutting
- removing asphalt pavement with a milling machine
- Photochemical milling (disambiguation)
- the act of using the trigonometry of an angular mil to determine size and distance for rifle and short distance artillery calculations
- a part of the leather crusting process
- a type of boxing session used in training by the British Army
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.
Milling is the machining process of using rotary cutters to remove material from a workpiece by advancing (or feeding) in a direction at an angle with the axis of the tool. It covers a wide variety of different operations and machines, on scales from small individual parts to large, heavy-duty gang milling operations. It is one of the most commonly used processes in industry and machine shops today for machining parts to precise sizes and shapes.
Milling can be done with a wide range of machine tools. The original class of machine tools for milling was the milling machine (often called a mill). After the advent of computer numerical control (CNC), milling machines evolved into machining centers (milling machines with automatic tool changers, tool magazines or carousels, CNC control, coolant systems, and enclosures), generally classified as vertical machining centers (VMCs) and horizontal machining centers (HMCs). The integration of milling into turning environments and of turning into milling environments, begun with live tooling for lathes and the occasional use of mills for turning operations, led to a new class of machine tools, multitasking machines (MTMs), which are purpose-built to provide for a default machining strategy of using any combination of milling and turning within the same work envelope.
Milling is a surname. Notable people with this name include:
- Amanda Milling (born 1975), British Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Cannock Chase 2015–
- James Milling (born 1965), former professional American football wide receiver in the National Football League
- Stephen Milling, Danish operatic bass singer
- Thomas D. Milling (1887–1960), pioneer of military aviation and a brigadier general in the U.S. Army Air Corps
Usage examples of "milling".
He smiled sardonically, gesturing behind him to the center of the camp where the dismounted Nomads were milling angrily, confused, ashamed.
The people were milling around in anticipation, some throwing spears of their own down the well-trampled course.
He had arrived in the last car from Earth, whose hundred other passengers were milling about in Gate Hall, listening to the advice of the guardsmen or gawking at the scale of it.
Turveydrop was in bed, I found, and Caddy was milling his chocolate, which a melancholy little boy who was an apprentice --it seemed such a curious thing to be apprenticed to the trade of dancing--was waiting to carry upstairs.
One of its most notable contributions was a milling machine that used a powerful blast of air to turn bacterial and viral mixtures into a fine powder.
But once again there were no soldiers baring the way, only men in dark gakas milling around the open archway.
Dark evergreens fanned out a mile behind her, rising taller and milling thicker in proportion to her distance--as if tree society wanted no part of Persimmon Gaunt and her foul book.
They charged into the camp and reined in, their horses milling about, knocking over buckets and chairs, kicking up a haze of dust in the firelight.
There was a sense of urgency, now, and very little Teutonic efficiency about the milling scrum of men and soldiers.
North Shore suburbs and planned communities and people leaving their front doors agape in their rush to get out and mill around and spectate at the circle of impacted waste drawing sober and studious crowds, milling in rings around the impact, earnestly comparing mental notes on just what it is they all see.
Or at least that was what they claimed whenever they were stopped and asked what they were doing, those milling bands of Slavs and Rumanians and Danes and Greeks, Belgians and Armenians and Dutch, some determined and some merely dazed, others wild-eyed or tame by turns as they chaotically croaked their messages and banged their long staves on the floor, pilgrims far from home swaying as stalks of grain in the wind, those confusing groups of Maltese and Czechs and French and Norwegians, Cypriots and Hungarians and Poles, the many stateless wanderers and the occasional homespun Albanian.
Blade could respond, the Venesects poured from passages at the base of the ruins, streams of pale figures flowing into the crater and milling about.
Atomium sphere -- not surprising, there must be thirty people milling around up here, not counting the waitrons -- and several local multicast channels are playing a variety of styles of music to synchronize the mood swings of the revelers to hardcore techno, waltz, raga.
With a firm grip on his shoulder, the emperor of Shan was guiding him through the milling crowd, into the public room where Carina and Adar had set up their aid station.
Wyandotes, Cochins, Leghorns, and Australorps milling around over the way.