mill
Forms
- Plural
- mills
- present (v1)
- mill
- past (v2)
- milled
- past participle (v3)
- milled
- present participle
- milling
- 3rd person singular
- mills
Definitions
1.A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. (Some are small and simple, and some are large and complex.)
- Pepper has a stronger flavor when it is ground straight from a mill.
2.The building housing such a grinding apparatus; also, any similar building that houses a similarly material activity (such as weaving, fulling, dying, etc.); the place of business comprising such a building and its outbuildings and grounds.
- My great-grandfather worked in a mill. He filled the flour sacks and then carried and loaded them.
- That first batch of yarn set the pattern for Knudsen Knits: Farah seeks out local wool growers, selects fleeces, and works with small local mills to produce yarn.
3.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; any similar apparatus that otherwise processes.
4.A machine for grinding and polishing.
1.To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
2.To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
3.To move about in an aimless fashion.
- I didn't have much to do, so I just milled around the town looking at the shops.
- As guests milled around them, he [Zuckerberg] described his goal of turning every person in the country with an internet connection into a Facebook user.
- The deer and the pig and the nilghai were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius, while the Eaters of Flesh skirmished round its edge.
4.To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4181
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English mylne, mille, from Old English mylen, from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu (“mill”), from Late Latin molīna, molīnum, molīnus (“mill”), from Latin molō (“grind, mill”, verb), closely allied to Proto-Germanic *muljaną (“to crush, grind”) (see English millstone).