mill

v. grind, crush; manufacture a product in a mill; wander about in a group of people; fight (Slang)

n. establishment with mechanical equipment for the manufacturing of a product; mechanical device that grinds; factory that processes grain, milling house; unit of monetary value equal to one thousandth of a US dollar; fight, boxing match (Slang)

Mill may refer to the following:Mill (grinding), equipment for the grinding or pulverizing of raw materials using millstones windmill, wind poweredwatermill, water poweredhorse mill, animal poweredtreadwheel, human powered (archaic: "treadmill")Mill (factory), a place of business for making articles of manufacture. The term mill was once in common use for a factory because many factories in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution were powered by a watermill, but nowadays it is only used in a few specific contexts; e.g. a cotton mill is a factory for processing cottona paper mill produces papera sawmill cuts timbera gristmill grinds grain into floura steel mill manufactures steela sugar mill (also called a sugar refinery) processes sugar beets or sugar cane into various finished productsa huller (also called a rice mill, or rice husker) is used to hull riceMilling machine, metalworking machine that operates by rotating a cutting bit while the workpiece is moved against the cutter on an XY table.Stamp mill, a specialized machine for reducing ore to powder for further processing or for fracturing other materialsMill (currency), a tenth of a cent/pennyThe standard author abbreviation Mill. may be used to indicate botanist Philip Miller's work when citing a botanical nameDiploma mill or degree mill an organization which awards academic degrees and diplomas with very little or no academic study and without recognition by official accrediting bodiesNine Men's Morris, a traditional board game; the term "mill" may also mean "three (playing pieces) in a row" within the gameMill (Netherlands), a town in the municipality of Mill en Sint HubertArithmetical unit, used in the context of Charles Babbage's Analytical engine, a 19th century concept of a computerWindmill (breakdance move) or mill, a power move in breakdancingThe Mill (post-production), a visual effects company
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A numerical prefix is a prefix that denotes a number, which is usually a multiplier for the thing being prefixed. Numerical prefixes are usually derived from the words for numbers in various languages, most commonly Greek and Latin, although this is not necessarily the case.Numerical prefixes occur in five contexts:They occur in 19th, 20th and 21st century coinages, mainly the terms that are used in relation to or that are the names of technological innovations, such as and .They occur in constructed words such as systematic names. Systematic names use numerical prefixes derived from Greek, with one principal exception, . They occur as prefixes to units of measure in the SI system. See SI prefixes.They occur as prefixes to units of computer data. See binary prefixes.They occur in words in the same languages as the original number word, and their respective derivatives. (Strictly speaking, some of the common citations of these occurrences are not in fact occurrences of the prefixes. For example: is not formed from , but is in fact derived from the same shared Latin root – .)
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Philip Miller (1691 - December 18, 1771) was a botanist of Scottish descent.Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1721 until shortly before his death. He wrote The Gardener's and Florists Dictionary or a Complete System of Horticulture (1724) and The Gardener's Dictionary containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen Fruit and Flower Garden (1731).
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Noun
1. Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)
(synonym) James Mill
(hypernym) philosopher
2. English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)
(synonym) John Mill, John Stuart Mill
(hypernym) philosopher

Noun
1. a plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing
(synonym) factory, manufacturing plant, manufactory
(hypernym) plant, works, industrial plant
(hyponym) assembly plant
(part-meronym) production line, assembly line, line
(class) closed-circuit television
2. machine that processes materials by grinding or crushing
(synonym) grinder
(hypernym) machine
(hyponym) cider mill
3. the act of grinding to a powder or dust
(synonym) grind, pulverization, pulverisation
(hypernym) crush, crunch, compaction
Verb
1. move about in a confused manner
(synonym) mill about, mill around
(hypernym) move
2. grind with a mill; "mill grain"
(hypernym) grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute
(derivation) grind, pulverization, pulverisation
3. produce a ridge around the edge of; "mill a coin"
(hypernym) groove
(derivation) milling
4. roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
(hypernym) roll out, roll

M, million

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
  

(n.)
A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
  

(n.)
A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.
  

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.
  

(n.)
A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
  

(n.)
A passage underground through which ore is shot.
  

(n.)
A pugilistic.
  

(n.)
An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
  

(n.)
To beat with the fists.
  

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
  

(n.)
To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
  

(n.)
To roll into bars, as steel.
  

(n.)
To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
  

(v. i.)
To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.