Definitions for Mill

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Mill mill

Spelling: [mil]

IPA: /mɪl/

Mill is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in Mill (illm).

Definitions for Mill

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:
4. any of various machines that modify the shape or size of a workpiece by rotating tools or the work:
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:
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.
11. 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.
12. James, 1773–1836, English philosopher, historian, and economist, born in Scotland.
13. his son, John Stuart, 1806–73, English philosopher and economist.

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 Mill

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 Mill

It was at the home of the Lemballeuse, the family who lived in the ruins of the mill.

Did you know that you can purchase and mill 80 percent receivers without a license?

What he gits for fixin' the mill ain't nothin' to me—I don't git a cent on it.

When the morning came and Jim had not returned I started for the mill.

This was the one-room studio in mill Valley, California near The Depot.

The mill Valley Market has grown and offers a deluxe delicatessen.

“This is not a run of the mill criminal investigation,” he said.

She went with him to haul the grain to mill and was fascinated by the big scales.

The result meant was that “run of the mill Paul Ryan Republicans” were just as furious with Cantor as Tea Partiers were.

While the mill was at rest he pried into its internal machinery.