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Mills vs. Mill — What's the Difference?

Mills vs. Mill — What's the Difference?

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Mills

Plural of mill

Mill

A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour.

Mills

United States architect who was the presidentially appointed architect of Washington D.C. (1781-1855)

Mill

A factory fitted with machinery for a particular manufacturing process
A steel mill
A mill town

Mill

An engine.
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Mill

A boxing match or a fist fight.

Mill

A monetary unit used only in calculations, worth one thousandth of a dollar.

Mill

Grind (something) in a mill
Hard wheats are easily milled into white flour

Mill

Cut or shape (metal) with a rotating tool
In the machine shop we mill and grind the castings

Mill

(of people or animals) move around in a confused mass
Tourists were milling about in the lobby

Mill

Thicken (wool or another animal fibre) by fulling it
Ordinary wool blankets are made by milling a woven wool fabric

Mill

A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour or meal.

Mill

A device or mechanism that grinds grain.

Mill

A building or farm equipped with machinery that presses or grinds fruit to extract the juice
A cider mill.

Mill

A device or machine used to extract juice from fruit.

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.

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.

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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