Mill

Definition: Mill

Mill

Noun

1. A plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing.

2. Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836).

3. English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873).

4. Machine that processes materials by grinding or crushing.

5. The act of grinding.

Verb

1. Move about in a confused manner.

2. Grind with a mill; "mill grain".

3. Of the edge of a coin.

4. Roll out (metal) with a rolling machine.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Mill \Mill\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Milled; Milling.]. (references)

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Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

MILL

Mill

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Mill

Abode

Assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place; inn; hostel, hostelry; hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow, khan, hospice; public house, pub, pot house, mug house; gin mill, gin palace; bar, bar room; barrel house, cabaret, chophouse; club, clubhouse; cookshop, dive, exchange; grill room, saloon, shebeen; coffee house, eating house; canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet, posada; almshouse, poorhouse, townhouse.

Acquisition

Profit; make profit, draw profit, turn a quick profit; turn to profit, turn to account; make capital out of, make money by; obtain a return, reap the fruits of; reap an advantage, gain an advantage; turn a penny, turn an honest penny; make the pot boil, bring grist to the mill; make money, coin money, raise money; raise funds, raise the wind; fill one's pocket; (wealth).

Contention

Wrestling, greco-roman wrestling; pugilism, boxing, fisticuffs, the manly art of self-defense; spar, mill, set-to, round, bout, event, prize fighting; quarterstaff, single stick; gladiatorship, gymnastics; jiujitsu, jujutsu, kooshti, sumo; athletics, athletic sports; games of skill.

Gulf Lake

Lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle, slab, well, artesian well; standing water, dead water, sheet of water; fish pond, mill pond; ditch, dike, dyke, dam; reservoir. (store); alberca, barachois, hog wallow.

Horizontality

Adjective: horizontal, level, even, plane; flat; flat as a billiard table, flat as a bowling green; alluvial; calm, calm as a mill pond; smooth, smooth as glass.

Impulse

Fall into a rut, fall into a custom; (conform to); tread the beaten track, follow the beaten track, tread the beaten path, follow the beaten; stare super antiquas vias; move in a rut, run on in a groove, go round like a horse in a mill, go on in the old jog trot way.

Instrument

Instrument, organ, tool, implement, utensil, machine, engine, lathe, gin, mill; air engine, caloric engine, heat engine.

Provision

Noun: provision, supply; grist, grist for the mill; subvention; (aid); resources; (means); groceries, grocery.

Pulverulence

Mill, arrastra, gristmill, grater, rasp, file, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, teeth, grinder, grindstone, kern, quern, koniology.

Rotation

Adverb: head over heels, round and round, like a horse in a mill.

Smoothness

Roller, steam roller, lawn roller, rolling pin, rolling mill; sand paper, emery paper, emery cloth, sander; flat iron, sad iron; burnisher, turpentine and beeswax; polish, shoe polish.

Store

Reservoir, cistern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond; gasometer.

Unimportance

Straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, brass farthing, doit, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son; cent, mill, picayune, pistareen, red cent.

Utility

Bear fruit; (produce); bring grist to the mill; profit, remunerate; benefit; (do good).

Workshop

Noun: workshop, workhouse, workplace, shop, place of business; manufactory, mill, plant, works, factory; cabinet, studio; office, branch office bureau, atelier.

Crosswords: Mill

Albanian (sheath), Manx (tarnish; honey), Scottish (destroy, injure, mar).

And the whole steel mill was gay. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Trouble at th' mill. (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman)

Leo was shot, Jacques Renault was strangled, the mill burned, Pete and Shelly have smoke inhalation, Catherine and Josie are missing and Nadine is in a coma from taking sleeping pills (Twin Peaks; writing credit: G. William Jones)

Now that you've got your lumber mill and Frank's money, you won't come to me as you did to the jail, so I see I shall have to marry you. (Gone with the Wind; writing credit: Margaret Mitchell; Sidney Howard)

They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks (MY HOMETOWN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

Then ship a mill (Freakin It; performing artist: Will Smith)

Mill Hill (1972)

Hatch's Mill (1967)

Mill of Secrets (1960)

Treasure at the Mill (1957)

By the Old Mill Scream (1953)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Paper Manufacturing and Pulp Mill Equipment in Asia (reference)

• Settsu Oil Mill, Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Yoshihara Oil Mill, Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• United Flour Mill Public Company Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Paper Manufacturing and Pulp Mill Equipment in The Middle East (reference)

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Books

• Mill (reference)

• On Tide Mill Lane (Little House) (reference)

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Periodicals

• Mill Products News (reference)

• Mill Race Quarterly (reference)

• Mine And Mill Equipment Costs (reference)

• Old Mill News (reference)

• Old Mill Run (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• The Mill on the Floss (reference)

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Music

• Mill on the Floss (reference)

• Old Mill Stream: the 1991 Top Twenty Barbershop Quartets (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• William Bounds Kennedy Pepper Mill & Salt Shaker Set, Walnut (reference)

• Black & Decker CBM7 SmartGrind Deluxe Coffee Bean Burr Mill - White (reference)

• Black & Decker CBM7B SmartGrind Deluxe Coffee Bean Burr Mill - Black (reference)

• Michael Graves Beechwood Pepper Mill (reference)

• Peugeot Bistro Pepper Mill, Natural (reference)

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53 year old female, employed 10 years in the spinning department of a goat-hair processing mill. Cutaneous anthrax lesion on right cheek; lesion as seen on 11th day. Credit: CDC.

Lumber Mill at Logtown. Credit: NASA.

"The Weyerhaeuser Lumber Mill, on the Waterfront at Everett". In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 92. Credit: America's Coastlines.

"The Docks of a Great Lumber Mill at Cosmopolis", Grays Harbor. In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 156. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Hundreds of local townspeople gathered at the mill to watch the last transport of migrating fish past the dam and into their spawning grounds. The removal of the dams will make future fish transports unnecessary. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Manton Keswick's Reservoir near Redding, California. Ore loading facility, Iron Mountain. The grey area by the concrete wall is spilled ore. Ore from Iron Mountain Mine was ground up at Minnesota Flats mill and carried over the mountains to wading facility. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Figure 27. Mill bottle invented by Dr. Hugh R. Mill of the Scottish Marine Station in 1884. This bottle was modified from the design of the Meyer bottle and fitted with a rubber disc to enhance its water-tightness. It also was fitte d with an automatic closing device and became known as the Mill self-locking water bottle. Left: descending. Right: ascending. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 28. Mill bottle modified with mounting for thermometer devised by Dr. Hugh R. Mill of the Scottish Marine Station at Granton in 1884. Left: descending. Right: ascending. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Southwest Missouri RC&D Fire Consultant Gary Rostic, left, and Redings Mill Fire Chief Andy Nimmo are pleased with the installation of a dry hydrant (in background). Dry hydrants improve fire protection for rural residents. Credit: Charlie Rahm.

Redings Mill, Missouri, firefighters fill a portable tank used to fight rural fires. Assistance from NRCS' Southwest Missouri RC&D office helped the fire department improve its service to rural residents. Credit: Charlie Rahm.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It is labour then which puts the greatest part of value upon land, without which it would scarcely be worth any thing: it is to that we owe the greatest part of all its useful products; for all that the straw, bran, bread, of that acre of wheat, is more worth than the product of an acre of as good land, which lies waste, is all the effect of labour: for it is not barely the plough-man's pains, the reaper's and thresher's toil, and the baker's sweat, is to be counted into the bread we eat; the labour of those who broke the oxen, who digged and wrought the iron and stones, who felled and framed the timber employed about the plough, mill, oven, or any other utensils, which are a vast number, requisite to this corn, from its being feed to be sown to its being made bread, must all be charged on the account of labour, and received as an effect of that: nature and the earth furnished only the almost worthless materials, as in themselves. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Perhaps to Hartfield, perhaps to the Abbey Mill, perhaps into his woods

Nothing is more dangerous than this rapid, narrowed at that period and vexed by the piles of the mill of the bridge, since removed

He spoke often to me, but the sound of his voice pierced my ears like that of a water mill, yet his words were articulate enough

I doubt if Flying Childers ever carried a peck of corn to mill.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Among documented U.S. cases of HPS, patients with potential occupational exposures have included grain farmers, an extension livestock specialist, field biologists, and agricultural, mill, construction, utility and feedlot workers. (references)

Business

The Hyundai Group plans to sell this newly built cold-rolled steel mill to foreign steel makers. (references)

In general, a paper mill is usually able to generate electricity for its own use from the steam produced in the process. (references)

Other waste materials produced in huge quantities are the ashes from thermal processes (quantity registered in 1998, about 10 mill tons). (references)

Economic History

Cote D'ivoire

In late 1999, a new corn meal/corn grits mill came on line. (references)

Mauritius

Investment in the second phase of the mill is estimated at $35 million. (references)

Latvia

Timber and saw mill industries also have potential for attracting foreign investment. (references)

Human Rights

Nepal

In the exchange eight Maoists, the four NGO employees, and a local civilian working at a nearby water mill were killed. (references)

Travel

Chad

Chad has no cement factory or steel mill and wood is expensive. (references)

Qatar

Dredging operations to establish an adjacent port facility for Qatar Flour Mill Company to handle wheat imports to Qatar have been completed. (references)

Worker Rights

Namibia

The panel found that health risks existed at the mill, and management withdrew disciplinary measures against the workers. (references)

Dominican Republic

In March 2000, the Caribbean Sugar Producer's Consortium laid off 150 workers at its sugar mill in Consuelo in retaliation for having formed a trade union. (references)

Pakistan

In October 2000, Fayyaz Ahmad, a child worker in a textile mill, died as a result of injuries he sustained when his clothing became entangled in machinery. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A mill stream

A ford by a mill

The guardian of the mill

A mill town

Expressions using "mill": All is grist that comes to his mill ♦ Anderson Mill ♦ ball end mill ♦ Barker's mill ♦ be all grist to one's mill ♦ be put through the mill ♦ billet mill ♦ Blairs Mill ♦ blooming mill ♦ Bonnots Mill ♦ Boones Mill ♦ boring mill ♦ bring grist to smb.'s mill ♦ bring the grist to the mill ♦ Byrnes Mill ♦ Cane mill ♦ cedar Mill ♦ Chilian mill ♦ churn oil mill ♦ Cider mill ♦ clay mill ♦ coal pulverising mill ♦ coffee mill ♦ cogging mill ♦ cotton mill ♦ cotton mill fever ♦ Current mill ♦ Cylinder mill ♦ Cypress Mill ♦ double mill ♦ Edge mill ♦ Eureka Mill ♦ Falls Mill ♦ Fanning mill ♦ Flatting mill ♦ Flax mill ♦ Flint mill ♦ flour mill ♦ Fort Mill ♦ Fulling mill ♦ gang mill ♦ gastric mill ♦ Gayle Mill ♦ Gig mill ♦ gin mill ♦ go round like a horse in a mill ♦ go through the mill ♦ grape mill ♦ Gray mill ♦ Gray mill or millet ♦ Grinding mill ♦ grist to the mill ♦ hammer mill ♦ hand mill ♦ Holmes Mill ♦ it's all grist to the mill ♦ James Mill ♦ John Mill ♦ John Stuart Mill ♦ Lancaster Mill ♦ Lapidary's mill ♦ Lead mill ♦ like a horse in a mill ♦ lumber mill ♦ Milford Mill ♦ mill about ♦ mill agent ♦ mill around ♦ mill bar ♦ mill board ♦ mill cake ♦ mill cinder ♦ Mill City ♦ Mill Creek ♦ mill fever ♦ Mill Hall ♦ mill hand ♦ mill head ♦ mill hole ♦ mill machine ♦ Mill Neck ♦ mill owner ♦ mill pick ♦ mill pond ♦ mill race ♦ mill roll ♦ Mill Run ♦ mill scale ♦ Mill Shoals ♦ Mill Spring ♦ mill star ♦ mill stream ♦ mill tail ♦ mill to round ♦ mill tooth ♦ Mill Valley ♦ Mill Village ♦ mill wheel ♦ mill with a cutter ♦ mill work ♦ mill worker. Additional references.

Beginning with "mill": Mill-bern, mill-bills, mill-buildings, Mill-cake, mill-cottages, mill-cut, mill-dam, mill-designing, mill-employed, mill-girl, mill-hand, mill-hands, mill-house, mill-hut, mill-manager, mill-master, mill-masters, mill-owner, mill-owners, mill-owning, mill-oxen, mill-pond, mill-ponds, mill-race, mill-races, mill-scale, mill-school, mill-servant, Mill-sixpence, mill-stone, mill-stones, mill-stream, mill-stream-and, mill-type, mill-wall, mill-wheel, mill-wheels, mill-worker, mill-workers, mill-wrights, mill-yard, mill-yuns.

Ending with "mill": paper-mill, water-mill.

Containing "mill": cotton-mill-owner.

Albanian

mulli (cylinder, grinder), boks (box, boxing, pugilism), burg (cage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, gaol, jail, limbo, lockup, Nick, pen, penitentiary, poky, prison, prison house, quod, stir), dhëmbëzoj (Dent, engrail, indent, jag, notch, pink, skin over, tooth), fabrikë (factory, manufactory, plant), fabrikoj (fabricate, machinate, make up, manufacture, produce), frezoj, luftim me grushte, bluaj (Bray, crush, digest, flour, grind, turn over), petëzoj (laminate, roll), vij rrotull (circle, compass, court, fly around, gallivant, make love, prowl, putter, spark, woo), presë (drop hammer, edge, press), prodhoj (bear, deliver, do, elaborate, fabricate, generate, make, manufacture, produce, yield), rrah (aim, assess, beat, beat up, castigate, cob, flail, flap, flicker, give a good hiding, give in, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay into, lick, Pat, thrash, thresh, trounce, wallop, whop), rrotullohem (bowl along, circle, revolve, slew, turn, turn about, turn over, wheel), thyej (bend, break, break to pieces, cash, change, crack up, demolish, fold, fracture, hurt, mammock, maul, refract, rupture, shatter, shiver, sliver, smash, snap, Spall, split, stamp, transgress, worst, wreck), thyese, uzinë (factory, plant, works), vërtitem (circle, dance, flitter, flutter, gyrate, loiter, mooch, move, move about, Potter, revolve, roll, turn, turn round, wheel, whirl round), përpunoj (cast, design, develop, elaborate, evolve, process, recondition, refine, rehash, treat, work out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏معمل (factory, plant, workshop), ‏مطحنة (grindery), ‏مصنع (factory, manufactory, plant, work, workshop), ‏مر بتجارب صعبة, ‏تحرك دائريا, ‏تجمهر (assemble, congregate, crowding, grouping, mob, swarm, throng), ‏سك النقود, ‏طحن (crush, flour, grin, grind, grinding, grist, powder, pulverize), ‏طاحونة (grinder), ‏المل وحدة نقدية, ‏السكاكة آلة لضرب النقود. (various references)

Basque

errota. (various references)

Bulgarian 

валцувам (fold), преса (press, presser, print, winepress), боксирам се, боксов мач, завод (factory, plant, shop, works), машина (engine, machine), мелница (flourmill, grinder, gristmill), мелничка, меля (grind, jaw, mince), правя обрез, валцов стан (rolling mill, train), смилам (digest, grind, levigate), валям (roll, thicken, tumble about), воденица (gizzard, gristmill, water mill), кръжа (circle, hover, mill about), трошачка (breaker, cracker, crackers, crusher, disintegrator, pulverizer), фабрика (factory, hacienda, manufactory, plant, shop, works), фреза (cutter), фрезовам, хилядна част от долара, разбивам (agitate, beat, beat up, blank, blast, blight, break, break down, break in pieces, break to pieces, burst open, dash, deflate, disrupt, hack, kick in, overwhelm, pry open, scatter, shatter, smash, smash in, smash up, split off, stamp, whip, whip up, wreck), натрошавам (break to pieces, splinter). (various references)

Chinese 

礱 (grind), 磑 , 磨房 (Mills). (various references)

Czech

mlít (grind, spout), mlýnek (noughts and crosses), mlýn (ruck, scrimmage, scrum), válcovna, válcovat (roll), továrna (factory, plant), frézovat. (various references)

Danish

moelleri (flour-mill), moelle (flour-mill), mixer, valseværk, træindustri, træbearbejdningsmaskine (timber working machine, wood-working machine, woodworking machinery), kværn (grinder), knusning (bruise, check, cracking, crushing, graded size, granulation, grind, grinding, pressure vent, surface crack, surface vent, treading), blandemaskine (mixer, portioning machine). (various references)

Dutch

molen (grinder). (various references)

Esperanto

muelejo, uzino (factory). (various references)

Farsi 

ماشین (Apparatus, Engine, Gin, Machine, Mechanism, Motor, Plant), کنگره دارکردن (Jag), کارخانه (Factory, Firm, Housework, Plant, Studio), اسیاب کردن (Grind, Grit), اسیاب . (various references)

Finnish

tehdas (factory, works), mylly (flour-mill), jauhaa (grind, pulverize). (various references)

French

usine, moulin, minoterie, fabrique, broyer. (various references)

German

Mühle (boneshaker, grinder, jalopy, millhouse, treadmill), Fabrik (factory, manufactory, plant). (various references)

Greek 

μύλος (gristmill), εργοστάσιο (factory, manufactory, plant, works), αλέθω (grind). (various references)

Hebrew 

מגרסה (crusher, grinding mill), מטחנה (grinding mill, mincing machine), לחבוט (bang, beat off, flail, knock, pound, smack, strike down, stroke, swat, swipe, thrash, thrust down, thump, thwack), לכרסם (chew, gnaw, nibble), לדוש (crush, flail, pound, thrash, thresh), לטחון (grind, pulverize), תחנת רוח, בית חרושת (factory, plant), טחנה, רחים (grindstones, hand mill, millstones). (various references)

Hungarian

malom (grist-mill), gyár (factory, house, manufacturing plant, plant, works, -works), üzem (factory, manufactory, plant, run, smooth working, works, -works), hirig (punch-up, roughhouse, scuffle), daráló (grinder, grinding, hand mill, kibbler), bunyó (aggro, fight, fisticuffs, free for all, hammering, punch-up, thrashing), őrlő (grinding). (various references)

Indonesian

menggiling (flatten, grind, roll), penggilingan (milling), pabrik (factory), gilingan. (various references)

Italian

mulino (flour-mill), macinare (grind, pulverize). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

製造所 (factory, manufactory, works), 粉屋 (flour dealer), 工場　 (factory, plant, workshop), 工場 (factory, plant, workshop). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せいぞうしょ (factory, manufactory, works), せいぞうじょ (factory, manufactory, works), こなや (flour dealer), こうば (factory, plant, workshop), こうじょう (advancement, bank of a large river, code of morals, colloid, compromise, concession, constancy, elevation, factory, favour, friendship, hospitality, improvement, intimacy, kindness, moral principles, plant, progress, rise, ruined castle, siege, speech, vocal message, workshop). (various references)

Korean 

선반 (lathe, ledge, Mills, Rack, shelf, Shelves). (various references)

Manx

mwyllin [f] (factory), mwyllin (factory). (various references)

Occitan

molin, mòler (crush, grind). (various references)

Pig Latin

illmay.(various references)

Portuguese