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mill

1  [mil]
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–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

Synonyms:
15. crowd, wander, roam, teem.
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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

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.

mill.

 
million.
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mill 1   (mĭl)   
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.

  2. A machine or device that reduces a solid or coarse substance into pulp or minute grains by crushing, grinding, or pressing: a pepper mill.

  3. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. A slow or laborious process: It took three years to get the bill through the legislative mill.

v.   milled, mill·ing, mills

v.   tr.

  1. To grind, pulverize, or break down into smaller particles in a mill.

  2. To transform or process mechanically in a mill.

  3. 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).

  5. To agitate or stir until foamy.

  6. Western U.S. To cause (cattle) to move in a circle or tightening spiral in order to stop a stampede.

v.   intr.

  1. To move around in churning confusion: "A crowd of school children milled about on the curb looking scared" (Anne Tyler).

  2. Slang To fight with the fists; box.

  3. 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.
mill 2   (mĭl)   
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.]
Mill   (mĭl)   
Scottish philosopher, economist, and a founder of utilitarianism. His works include An Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind (1829).
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).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

mill
Arithmetic and Logic Unit

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Bible Dictionary

Mill

for grinding corn, mentioned as used in the time of Abraham (Gen. 18:6). That used by the Hebrews consisted of two circular stones, each 2 feet in diameter and half a foot thick, the lower of which was called the "nether millstone" (Job 41:24) and the upper the "rider." The upper stone was turned round by a stick fixed in it as a handle. There were then no public mills, and thus each family required to be provided with a hand-mill. The corn was ground daily, generally by the women of the house (Isa. 47:1, 2; Matt. 24:41). It was with the upper stone of a hand-mill that "a certain woman" at Thebez broke Abimelech's skull (Judg. 9:53, "a piece of a millstone;" literally, "a millstone rider", i.e., the "runner," the stone which revolves. Comp. 2 Sam. 11:21). Millstones could not be pledged (Deut. 24:6), as they were necessary in every family.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Idioms & Phrases

mill

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

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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