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▸ 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.]
Similar:
grinder,
pulverization,
grind,
mill around,
mill about,
manufactory,
factory,
pulverisation,
manufacturing plant,
grist,
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windmill,
watermill,
steam mill,
gristmill,
roller mill,
hammer mill,
ball mill,
attrition mill,
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