From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mill
n 1: a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities
for manufacturing [syn: factory, mill, {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: machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
[syn: mill, grinder, milling machinery]
5: the act of grinding to a powder or dust [syn: grind,
mill, pulverization, pulverisation]
v 1: move about in a confused manner [syn: mill, 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 (8 July 2008) [foldoc]:
Arithmetic and Logic Unit
mill
<processor> (ALU or "mill") The part of the {central
processing unit} which performs operations such as addition,
subtraction and multiplication of integers and bit-wise
AND, OR, NOT, XOR and other Boolean operations. The
CPU's instruction decode logic determines which particular
operation the ALU should perform, the source of the operands
and the destination of the result.
The width in bits of the words which the ALU handles is
usually the same as that quoted for the processor as a whole
whereas its external busses may be narrower. Floating-point
operations are usually done by a separate "{floating-point
unit}". Some processors use the ALU for address calculations
(e.g. incrementing the program counter), others have
separate logic for this.
(1995-03-24)