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mill

1 [mil]

–noun

1.	a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, or textiles.

2.	a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour and other cereal products.

3.	a machine for grinding, crushing, or pulverizing any solid substance: a coffee mill.

4.	any of various machines that modify the shape or size of a workpiece by rotating tools or the work: rolling mill.

5.	any of various other apparatuses for shaping materials or performing other mechanical operations.

6.	a business or institution that dispenses products or services in an impersonal or mechanical manner, as if produced in a factory: a divorce mill; a diploma mill.

7.	Machinery. a cutter on a milling machine.

8.	a steel roller for receiving and transferring an impressed design, as to a calico-printing cylinder or a banknote-printing plate.

9.	Mining. a place or set of machinery for crushing or concentrating ore.

10.	Slang. a boxing match or fistfight.

–verb (used with object)

11.	to grind, work, treat, or shape in or with a mill.

12.

Coining.

a.	to make a raised edge on (a coin or the like).

b.	to make narrow, radial grooves on the raised edge of (a coin or the like).

13.	to beat or stir, as to a froth: to mill chocolate.

14.	Slang. to beat or strike; fight; overcome.

–verb (used without object)

15.	to move around aimlessly, slowly, or confusedly, as a herd of cattle (often fol. by about or around).

16.	Slang. to fight or box.

—Idiom

17.	through the mill, Informal. undergoing or having undergone severe difficulties, trials, etc., esp. with an effect on one's health, personality, or character: He's really been through the mill since his wife's death.

Origin:
bef. 950; ME milne, mille (n.), OE myl(e)n < LL molīna, n. use of fem. of molīnus of a mill, equiv. to L mol(a) mill + -īnus -ine ¹

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Language Translation for : Mill

Spanish:

molinillo,

German:

die Mühle,

Japanese:

製粉機

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mill

2 [mil]

–noun

a unit of monetary value equal to 0.001 of a U.S. dollar; one tenth of a cent: used at various times and places in the U.S. as a money of account, esp. in certain tax rates.

Origin:
1785–95, Americanism; short for L millēsimus thousandth; see mil

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Mill

[mil]

–noun

1.	James, 1773–1836, English philosopher, historian, and economist, born in Scotland.

2.	his son, John Stuart, 1806–73, English philosopher and economist.

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mill.

million.

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mill¹ (mĭl) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour or meal.
2. A device or mechanism that grinds grain.
3. A machine, such as one for stamping coins, that produces something by the repetition of a simple process.
4. A steel roller bearing a raised design, used for making a die or a printing plate by pressure.
5. Any of various machines for shaping, cutting, polishing, or dressing metal surfaces.
6. A building or group of buildings equipped with machinery for processing raw materials into finished or industrial products: a textile mill; a steel mill.
7. A building or collection of buildings that has machinery for manufacture; a factory.
A machine or device that reduces a solid or coarse substance into pulp or minute grains by crushing, grinding, or pressing: a pepper mill.
A machine that releases the juice of fruits and vegetables by pressing or grinding: a cider mill.
1. A machine, such as one for stamping coins, that produces something by the repetition of a simple process.
2. A steel roller bearing a raised design, used for making a die or a printing plate by pressure.
3. Any of various machines for shaping, cutting, polishing, or dressing metal surfaces.
4. A building or group of buildings equipped with machinery for processing raw materials into finished or industrial products: a textile mill; a steel mill.
5. A building or collection of buildings that has machinery for manufacture; a factory.
1. A building or group of buildings equipped with machinery for processing raw materials into finished or industrial products: a textile mill; a steel mill.
2. A building or collection of buildings that has machinery for manufacture; a factory.
A process, agency, or institution that operates in a routine way or turns out products in the manner of a factory: The college was nothing more than a diploma mill.
A slow or laborious process: It took three years to get the bill through the legislative mill.

v. milled, mill·ing, mills

v. tr.

To grind, pulverize, or break down into smaller particles in a mill.
To transform or process mechanically in a mill.
To shape, polish, dress, or finish in a mill or with a milling tool.
1. To produce a ridge around the edge of (a coin).
2. To groove or flute the rim of (a coin or other metal object).
To agitate or stir until foamy.
Western U.S. To cause (cattle) to move in a circle or tightening spiral in order to stop a stampede.

v. intr.

To move around in churning confusion: "A crowd of school children milled about on the curb looking scared" (Anne Tyler).
Slang To fight with the fists; box.
To undergo milling.

[Middle English milne, mille, from Old English mylen, from Late Latin molīna, molīnum, from feminine and neuter of molīnus, of a mill, from Latin mola, millstone, from molere, to grind; see melə- in Indo-European roots.]

To mill, in Western U.S. English, means "to run cattle in a circle, sometimes deliberately in order to halt a stampede." In the Oxford English Dictionary we find this 19th-century example of the verb: "At last the cattle ran with less energy, and it was presently easy to 'mill' them into a circle and to turn them where it seemed most desirable" (Munsey's Magazine). This usage of mill comes from the resemblance of the cattle's circular motion to the action of millstones. A related intransitive sense of the verb is better known in Standard English, as shown in the Oxford English Dictionary citation of an 1888 quotation from Theodore Roosevelt: "The cattle may begin to run, and then get 'milling'-that is, all crowd together into a mass like a ball, wherein they move round and round." Originally this sense of mill also meant "circular motion"; now it means "to move around in churning confusion" with no pattern in particular.

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mill² (mĭl) Pronunciation Key
n. Abbr. M. or mi.
A monetary unit equal to ¹/₁₀₀₀ of a U.S. dollar or ¹/₁₀ of a cent.

[Short for Latin mīllēsimus, thousandth; see mil¹.]

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Mill (mĭl) Pronunciation Key
Scottish philosopher, economist, and a founder of utilitarianism. His works include An Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind (1829).

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Mill, John Stuart 1806-1873.
British philosopher and economist known especially for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism. His many works include A System of Logic (1843), Principles of Political Economy (1848), and The Subjection of Women (1869).

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mill (n.1)

"building fitted to grind grain," O.E. mylen "mill," an early Gmc. borrowing from L.L. molina, molinum "mill" (cf. Fr. moulin, Sp. molino), originally fem. and neut. of molinus "pertaining to a mill," from L. mola "mill, millstone," related to molere "to grind," from PIE *mel-/*mol-/*ml- "grind" (cf. Gk. myle "mill"). Also from L.L. molina, directly or indirectly, are Ger. Mühle, Dan. mølle, O.C.S. mulinu. Broader sense of "grinding machine" is attested from 1560. Other types of manufacturing machines driven by wind or water, whether for grinding or not, began to be called mills by 1417. Sense of "building fitted with industrial machinery" is from 1502. The verb meaning "to grind" is attested from 1552.

mill (n.2)

"one-tenth cent," 1791, introduced as a U.S. currency unit but now only used for tax calculation purposes, shortening of L. millesimum "one-thousandth," from mille "a thousand" (see mile). Formed on the analogy of cent, which is short for L. centesimus "one hundredth" (of a dollar).

mill (v.)

"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.

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mill
noun
1.	a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing [syn: factory]
2.	Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)
3.	English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)
4.	machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
5.	the act of grinding to a powder or dust [syn: grind]
verb
1.	move about in a confused manner
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

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mill

see grist for the mill; mills of the gods grind slowly; run of the mill; through the mill; tilt at windmills.

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mill
Arithmetic and Logic Unit

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Mill City, OR (city, FIPS 48150) Location: 44.75131 N, 122.47714 W
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Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 97360

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Population (1990): 336 (143 housing units)
Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 74856

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Population (1990): 392 (167 housing units)
Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 17060

Mill Creek, WV (town, FIPS 54100) Location: 38.73164 N, 79.97249 W
Population (1990): 685 (290 housing units)
Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 26280

Mill Hall, PA (borough, FIPS 49760) Location: 41.10444 N, 77.49037 W
Population (1990): 1702 (723 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 17751

Mill Neck, NY (village, FIPS 47405) Location: 40.88010 N, 73.55620 W
Population (1990): 977 (404 housing units)
Area: 6.7 sq km (land), 0.9 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 11765

Mill Run, PA Zip code(s): 15464

Mill Shoals, IL (village, FIPS 49347) Location: 38.25143 N, 88.34512 W
Population (1990): 247 (137 housing units)
Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 62862

Mill Creek, WA (city, FIPS 45865) Location: 47.85771 N, 122.20585 W
Population (1990): 7172 (3131 housing units)
Area: 7.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 98012

Mill Spring, MO (village, FIPS 48386) Location: 37.06470 N, 90.68142 W
Population (1990): 252 (122 housing units)
Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 63952

Mill Spring, NC Zip code(s): 28756

Mill Valley, CA (city, FIPS 47710) Location: 37.90797 N, 122.54098 W
Population (1990): 13038 (6139 housing units)
Area: 12.1 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 94941

Mill Village, PA (borough, FIPS 49936) Location: 41.87766 N, 79.97260 W
Population (1990): 429 (154 housing units)
Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Mill Creek, IL (village, FIPS 49178) Location: 37.34150 N, 89.25420 W
Population (1990): 87 (42 housing units)
Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Old Mill Creek, IL (village, FIPS 55639) Location: 42.43310 N, 87.98211 W
Population (1990): 73 (31 housing units)
Area: 15.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Carmody Hills-Pepper Mill Village, MD (CDP, FIPS 13312) Location: 38.89355 N, 76.88848 W
Population (1990): 4815 (1478 housing units)
Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Blairs Mill, KY Zip code(s): 41472

Bonnots Mill, MO Zip code(s): 65016

Boones Mill, VA (town, FIPS 8584) Location: 37.11521 N, 79.95071 W
Population (1990): 239 (108 housing units)
Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 24065

Cypress Mill, TX Zip code(s): 78654

Water Mill, NY Zip code(s): 11976

Falls Mill, WV Zip code(s): 26620

Holmes Mill, KY Zip code(s): 40843

Pounding Mill, VA Zip code(s): 24637

Pecks Mill, WV Zip code(s): 25547

Redings Mill, MO (village, FIPS 60986) Location: 37.01967 N, 94.51654 W
Population (1990): 204 (90 housing units)
Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Monarch Mill, SC (CDP, FIPS 47210) Location: 34.71896 N, 81.58102 W
Population (1990): 2214 (897 housing units)
Area: 14.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Taylor Mill, KY (city, FIPS 75738) Location: 39.01176 N, 84.49721 W
Population (1990): 5530 (2065 housing units)
Area: 16.5 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)

Walker Mill, MD (CDP, FIPS 81250) Location: 38.87530 N, 76.88866 W
Population (1990): 10920 (3744 housing units)
Area: 8.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Spring Mill, KY (city, FIPS 72770) Location: 38.14372 N, 85.62987 W
Population (1990): 342 (112 housing units)
Area: 0.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Moores Mill, AL (CDP, FIPS 51216) Location: 34.85189 N, 86.52576 W
Population (1990): 3362 (1237 housing units)
Area: 34.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Anderson Mill, TX (CDP, FIPS 3197) Location: 30.45480 N, 97.80546 W
Population (1990): 9468 (3494 housing units)
Area: 3.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Milford Mill, MD (CDP, FIPS 52562) Location: 39.34765 N, 76.77028 W
Population (1990): 22547 (9671 housing units)
Area: 18.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Lancaster Mill, SC (CDP, FIPS 39930) Location: 34.70915 N, 80.79494 W
Population (1990): 2373 (988 housing units)
Area: 4.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Gayle Mill, SC (CDP, FIPS 28825) Location: 34.70181 N, 81.24029 W
Population (1990): 1037 (419 housing units)
Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Fort Mill, SC (town, FIPS 26890) Location: 35.00614 N, 80.94346 W
Population (1990): 4930 (1989 housing units)
Area: 8.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Eureka Mill, SC (CDP, FIPS 24020) Location: 34.71763 N, 81.19384 W
Population (1990): 1738 (708 housing units)
Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Cedar Mill, OR (CDP, FIPS 12150) Location: 45.53657 N, 122.79952 W
Population (1990): 9697 (3872 housing units)
Area: 10.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Byrnes Mill, MO (city, FIPS 10240) Location: 38.43925 N, 90.57365 W
Population (1990): 1578 (613 housing units)
Area: 12.7 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water)

Red Oaks Mill, NY (CDP, FIPS 60983) Location: 41.65570 N, 73.87355 W
Population (1990): 4906 (1690 housing units)
Area: 9.1 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)

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mill

Lap"i*da*ry\, n.; pl. Lapidaries. [L. lapidarius, fr. lapidarius pertaining to stone: cf. F. lapidaire.]

1. An artificer who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones; hence, a dealer in precious stones.

2. A virtuoso skilled in gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work.

Lapidary's lathe, mill, or wheel, a machine consisting essentially of a revolving lap on a vertical spindle, used by a lapidary for grinding and polishing.

Mill

Meal\, n. [OE. mele, AS. melu, melo; akin to D. meel, G. mehl, OHG. melo, Icel. mj["o]l, SW. mj["o]l, Dan. meel, also to D. malen to grind, G. mahlen, OHG., OS., & Goth. malan, Icel. mala, W. malu, L. molere, Gr. my`lh mill, and E. mill. [root]108. Cf. Mill, Mold soil, Mole an animal, Immolate, Molar.]

1. Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.

2. Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.

Meal beetle (Zo["o]l.), the adult of the meal worm. See Meal worm, below.

Meal moth (Zo["o]l.), a lepidopterous insect (Asopia farinalis), the larv[ae] of which feed upon meal, flour, etc.

Meal worm (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a beetle (Tenebrio molitor) which infests granaries, bakehouses, etc., and is very injurious to flour and meal.

Mill

Mile\, n. [AS. m[=i]l, fr. L. millia, milia; pl. of mille a thousand, i. e., milia passuum a thousand paces. Cf. Mill the tenth of a cent, Million.] A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.

Note: The distance called a mile varies greatly in different countries. Its length in yards is, in Norway, 12,182; in Brunswick, 11,816; in Sweden, 11,660; in Hungary, 9,139; in Switzerland, 8,548; in Austria, 8,297; in Prussia, 8,238; in Poland, 8,100; in Italy, 2,025; in England and the United States, 1,760; in Spain, 1,552; in the Netherlands, 1,094.

Geographical, or Nautical mile, one sixtieth of a degree of a great circle of the earth, or 6080.27 feet.

Mile run. Same as Train mile. See under Train.

Roman mile, a thousand paces, equal to 1,614 yards English measure.

Statute mile, a mile conforming to statute, that is, in England and the United States, a mile of 5,280 feet, as distinguished from any other mile.

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\, 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 intented 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) (a) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. (b) A passage underground through which ore is shot.

8. A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.

9. A pugilistic. [Cant] --R. D. Blackmore.

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.

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\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Milled; 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\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Milled; 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.