Usually means: Machine for grinding or crushing.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mill, mill: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mill, mill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mill, mill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mill: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Mill, mill: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mill, mill: Wordnik
  7. mill: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Mill, mill: Wiktionary
  9. mill: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mill: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Mill, mill, mill: Dictionary.com
  12. mill (n.1), mill (n.2), mill (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. mill: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Mill (currency), Mill (disambiguation), Mill (factory), Mill (grinding), Mill, The Mill (Burne-Jones painting), The Mill (Rembrandt), The Mill (Rembrandt print), The Mill (TV series), The Mill (company), The Mill (post-production), The Mill (television), The Mill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Mill: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. mill: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. mill: Rhymezone
  18. mill: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. mill: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Mill: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. mill: Free Dictionary
  22. mill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Mill, mill: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. Mill: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. mill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mill-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
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  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Mill: Energy Dictionary
  6. Mill: Legal dictionary
  7. mill: Financial dictionary
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Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mill: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Mill (factory), Mill (grinding), mill: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. mill: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. MILL: Acronym Finder
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  5. mill: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mill: Easton Bible
  2. Mill: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. mill, mill, mill, mill: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Mill: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. mill, the mill: Urban Dictionary
  4. Mill: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
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  3. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)
  4. mill: Master Mariner
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  7. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
noun:  The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
noun:  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.
noun:  A machine for grinding and polishing.
noun:  A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
noun:  The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
noun:  A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
noun:  A building housing such a plant.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (figurative, derogatory) An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
noun:  (informal) An engine.
noun:  (informal) A boxing match, fistfight.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
noun:  (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
noun:  A milling cutter.
noun:  (historical) A prison treadmill.
noun:  (World War I– World War II, US military slang) A military prison, either guardhouse or post prison.
noun:  (World War I– World War II military slang) A delousing station, cootie mill.
noun:  (CB radio slang) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
verb:  (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
verb:  (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
verb:  (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
verb:  (intransitive, followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.
verb:  (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
verb:  (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.
verb:  To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
verb:  (transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
verb:  (transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
verb:  (intransitive) To undergo hulling.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.
verb:  (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
verb:  (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To commit burglary.
noun:  An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
noun:  One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
noun:  A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
verb:  (transitive, collectible card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
verb:  (transitive, Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
noun:  (collectible card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
noun:  (collectible card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  John Stuart Mill, English libertarian and utilitarian philosopher.
noun:  A village in North Brabant, Netherlands.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, United States.
noun:  (informal) Alternative form of mil (“million”) [An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to ¹⁄₆₄₀₀ of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also ¹⁄₆₀₀₀ and ¹⁄₆₃₀₀ are used in other countries.]

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