From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
mill
n 1: 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: Mill,
James Mill]
3: English philosopher and economist remembered for his
interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism
(1806-1873) [syn: Mill, 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]
v 1: 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
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Mill \Mill\, v. i. (Zool.)
To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
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2. To undergo hulling, as maize.
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3. To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain; to move
around aimlessly; -- usually used with around.
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The deer and the pig and the nilghar were milling
round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles
radius. --Kipling.
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4. To swim suddenly in a new direction; -- said of whales.
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5. To take part in a mill; to box. [Cant]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Mill \Mill\, v. t.
1. (Mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken
ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
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2. To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Mill \Mill\, n. [OE. mille, melle, mulle, milne, AS. myln,
mylen; akin to D. molen, G. m["u]hle, OHG. mul[imac],
mul[imac]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.]
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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.
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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.
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3. A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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8. A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.
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9. A pugilistic encounter. [Cant] --R. D. Blackmore.
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10. Short for Treadmill.
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11. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling
anything, as a coin or screw.
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12. A building or complex of buildings containing a mill[1]
or other machinery to grind grains into flour.
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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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.]
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1. To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a
mill; to grind; to comminute.
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2. To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a
machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by
means of a rotary cutter.
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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.
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4. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
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5. To beat with the fists. [Cant] --Thackeray.
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6. To roll into bars, as steel.
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To mill chocolate, to make it frothy, as by churning.
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:
mill
Arithmetic and Logic Unit