mill

Meaning

Noun

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. A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
6. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
7. A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
8. A building housing such a plant; the place of business comprising such buildings and their grounds.
9. An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality.
10. An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
11. (informal) An engine.
12. (informal) A boxing match, fistfight.
13. 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.
14. An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
15. A passage underground through which ore is shot.
16. A milling cutter.
17. A prison treadmill.
18. (slang) A military prison, either guardhouse or post prison.
19. A delousing station, cootie mill.
20. A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.

Verb

1. To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
2. To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
3. To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
4. To move about in an aimless fashion.
5. To cause to mill, or circle around.
6. To swim underwater.
7. To swim suddenly in a new direction.
8. (slang) To beat; to pound.
9. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
10. To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
11. To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
12. To undergo hulling.
13. (slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.
14. To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
15. (obsolete) To commit burglary.

Verb

1. To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
2. To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.

Synonyms

grind

factory

🏭

plant

🌱

works

manufactory

grinder

workshop

crush

millstones

manufacturing plant

pound

💷

pulverisation

mill about

pulverization

watermill

milling

mill around

mash

milling machinery

crumble

gristmill

quern

laminate

look round

machine

masticate

meal

millimeter

milling cutter

milling machine

millstone

mullet

notch

pounder

prowl

pulverize

ratchet

recess

rehash

revolve

rotate

run

sander

saunter

sawmill

shop

spin

stream

surge

swarm

swirl

throng

troop out

troll

🧌

tumble

turn

twiddle

twirl

typewriter

wander

whirl

whirligig

whirlpool

work out

centi

flour mill

grinding stone

head towards

industrial complex

lumber mill

mouth off

rolling machine

whirl around

hand mill

workplace

spinnery

granulize

millhouse

portable mill

spinningfactory

powderise

waltz around

assembly room

nine men's morris

beat

bench

blender

chewing

chip

clew

clue

crowd

crushing

eggbeater

elaborate

flock

flour

get around

go about

grater

grinding machine

indent

jag

knock about

knurl

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mɪl/

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 and moulin.