Definitions for Mills

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Mills Mills

Spelling: [milz]

IPA: /mɪlz/

Mills is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in Mills (illms).

Definitions for Mills

noun

1. C(harles) Wright, 1916–62, U.S. sociologist.
2. Robert, 1781–1855, U.S. architect and engineer.
3. a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, or textiles.
4. a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour and other cereal products.
5. a machine for grinding, crushing, or pulverizing any solid substance:
6. any of various machines that modify the shape or size of a workpiece by rotating tools or the work:
7. any of various other apparatuses for shaping materials or performing other mechanical operations.
8. a business or institution that dispenses products or services in an impersonal or mechanical manner, as if produced in a factory:
9. Machinery. a cutter on a milling machine.
10. a steel roller for receiving and transferring an impressed design, as to a calico-printing cylinder or a banknote-printing plate.
11. Mining. a place or set of machinery for crushing or concentrating ore.
12. Slang. a boxing match or fistfight.
13. 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, especially in certain tax rates.

Idioms

1. through the mill, Informal. undergoing or having undergone severe difficulties, trials, etc., especially with an effect on one's health, personality, or character:

verb (used with object)

1. to grind, work, treat, or shape in or with a mill.
2. Coining. to make a raised edge on (a coin or the like). to make narrow, radial grooves on the raised edge of (a coin or the like).
3. to beat or stir, as to a froth:
4. Slang. to beat or strike; fight; overcome.

verb (used without object)

1. to move around aimlessly, slowly, or confusedly, as a herd of cattle (often followed by about or around).
2. Slang. to fight or box.

Origin of Mills

before 950; Middle English milne, mille (noun), Old English myl(e)n Late Latin molīna, noun use of feminine of molīnus of a mill, equivalent to Latin mol(a) mill + -īnus -

Examples for Mills

Because Bruce said this, all the other Mills hung back, too.

Both Mills and Purdy can afford whatever devices and training they want—not something the average amputee can boast.

A railroad four miles long, conveys the quartz from the lode to the Mills.

Of course, this being Sleepy Hollow, Mills has had her own brushes with the supernatural.

Carla Percival-Young, an architect with Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood Inc., has designed six new schools for storm safety.

He'd tear up my cornfields and meadows and put factories and Mills in their place!

What did his great house and his Mills and all his money amount to, after all?

Mills was lying on the sidewalk, dying, right in front of people trained to save him.

By the time the ambulance arrived, over 10 minutes later, it was too late—Mills died soon after arriving at the hospital.

Do you think it will be one of these Mills you'll pick out for your first job?