Mill vs. Polishing — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Mill and Polishing
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Mill
A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour.
Polishing
Polishing is the process of creating a smooth and shiny surface by rubbing it or by applying a chemical treatment, leaving a clean surface with a significant specular reflection (still limited by the index of refraction of the material according to the Fresnel equations). In some materials (such as metals, glasses, black or transparent stones), polishing is also able to reduce diffuse reflection to minimal values.
Mill
A factory fitted with machinery for a particular manufacturing process
A steel mill
A mill town
Polishing
To make smooth and shiny by rubbing or chemical action.
Mill
An engine.
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Polishing
To remove the outer layers from (grains of rice) by rotation in drums.
Mill
A boxing match or a fist fight.
Polishing
To refine or remove flaws from; perfect or complete
Polish one's piano technique.
Polish up the lyrics.
Mill
A monetary unit used only in calculations, worth one thousandth of a dollar.
Polishing
To become smooth or shiny by being rubbed
The table polishes up nicely.
Mill
Grind (something) in a mill
Hard wheats are easily milled into white flour
Polishing
Smoothness or shininess of surface or finish.
Mill
Cut or shape (metal) with a rotating tool
In the machine shop we mill and grind the castings
Polishing
A substance containing chemical agents or abrasive particles and applied to smooth or shine a surface
Shoe polish.
Mill
(of people or animals) move around in a confused mass
Tourists were milling about in the lobby
Polishing
The act or process of polishing
Gave the lamp a polish.
Mill
Thicken (wool or another animal fibre) by fulling it
Ordinary wool blankets are made by milling a woven wool fabric
Polishing
Elegance of style or manners; refinement.
Mill
A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour or meal.
Polishing
Present participle of polish
Mill
A device or mechanism that grinds grain.
Polishing
The action of the verb to polish.
Mill
A building or farm equipped with machinery that presses or grinds fruit to extract the juice
A cider mill.
Polishing
An extract of partially milled rice.
Mill
A device or machine used to extract juice from fruit.
Polishing
That makes shiny or smooth.
Mill
A machine or device that reduces a solid or coarse substance into pulp or minute grains by crushing, grinding, or pressing
A pepper mill.
Polishing
That refines.
Mill
A building or group of buildings equipped with machinery for processing raw materials into finished or industrial products
A textile mill.
A steel mill.
Polishing
The work of making something shine by polishing it;
The shining of shoes provided a meager living
Mill
A machine, such as one for stamping coins, that produces something by the repetition of a simple process.
Mill
A steel roller bearing a raised design, used for making a die or a printing plate by pressure.
Mill
Any of various machines for shaping, cutting, polishing, or dressing metal surfaces.
Mill
A process, agency, or institution that operates in a mechanical way or turns out products in the manner of a factory
The college was nothing more than a diploma mill.
Mill
A business that breeds and sells animals, such as purebred puppies, often in substandard conditions. Often used in combination
A puppy mill.
Mill
A difficult or laborious series of experiences
Went through the mill trying to get approval to build an addition onto the house.
Mill
A unit of currency equal to 1/1000 of a US dollar or 1/10 of a cent.
Mill
To grind, pulverize, or break down into smaller particles in a mill
Mill grain.
Mill
To produce or process mechanically in a mill
Mill steel.
Mill
To cut, shape, or finish in a mill or with a milling tool
Logs that are milled for lumber.
Mill
To produce a ridge around the edge of (a coin).
Mill
To groove or flute the rim of (a coin or other metal object).
Mill
Western US To cause (cattle) to move in a circle or tightening spiral in order to stop a stampede.
Mill
To move around in churning confusion
"A crowd of school children milled about on the curb looking scared" (Anne Tyler).
Mill
(Slang) To fight with the fists; box.
Mill
To undergo milling
Grain that mills well.
Mill
A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
Pepper mill
Pepper has a stronger flavor when it is ground straight from a mill.
Mill
The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
My grandfather worked in a mill.
Mill
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.
A cider mill; a cane mill
Mill
A machine for grinding and polishing.
A lapidary mill
Mill
A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
Lathes, mills, and drill presses
Mill
The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
Mill
A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
Mill
A building housing such a plant.
Mill
(figurative) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.
Mill
An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
Mill
(informal) An engine.
Mill
(informal) A boxing match, fistfight.
Mill
(die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
Mill
(mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
Mill
(mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
Mill
A milling cutter.
Mill
(historical) A prison treadmill.
Mill
A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
Mill
An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
Mill
One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
Mill
A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
Mill
(trading card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
Mill
(trading card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
Mill
(transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
To mill flour
Mill
(transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
Mill
(transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
Mill
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.
Mill
(transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.
To mill cattle
Mill
To swim underwater.
Mill
To swim suddenly in a new direction.
Mill
To beat; to pound.
Mill
To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
Mill
(transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
Mill
(transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
Mill
(intransitive) To undergo hulling.
This maize mills well.
Mill
To take part in a fistfight; to box.
Mill
To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
Mill
To commit burglary.
Mill
To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
Mill
To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
Mill
A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
Mill
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.
Mill
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.
Mill
A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
Mill
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.
Mill
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.
Mill
A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
Mill
An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
Mill
A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.
Mill
A pugilistic encounter.
Mill
Short for Treadmill.
Mill
The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw.
Mill
A building or complex of buildings containing a mill{1} or other machinery to grind grains into flour.
Mill
To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
Mill
To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
Mill
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.
Mill
To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
Mill
To beat with the fists.
Mill
To roll into bars, as steel.
Mill
To swim under water; - said of air-breathing creatures.
Mill
To undergo hulling, as maize.
Mill
To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain; to move around aimlessly; - usually used with around.
The deer and the pig and the nilghar were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius.
Mill
To swim suddenly in a new direction; - said of whales.
Mill
To take part in a mill; to box.
Mill
To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
Mill
To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle.
Mill
A plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing
Mill
Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)
Mill
English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)
Mill
Machine that processes materials by grinding or crushing
Mill
The act of grinding to a powder or dust
Mill
Move about in a confused manner
Mill
Grind with a mill;
Mill grain
Mill
Produce a ridge around the edge of;
Mill a coin
Mill
Roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
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