mill
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2.2
- noun
- /mɪl/
:
molino
- It's gonna be back to the flour mill, Pappy!
- water mill
- feed mill
- mill tailings
Her deciduous burlesque, her glistering things falling on the old cider mill.
- Her deciduous burlesque, her glistering things falling on the old cider mill.
Examples
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They're working in the textile mills and the steel mills in New England.
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Once he carried a bushel of corn to the mill to be ground into flour, and it was winter.
Fiction book (1993) -
And well, you know I lost my job, too, when the mill closed.
Fiction book (2002) -
This mill depends on that machine.
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So using my mill and a high speed bit, I'm going to create a channel in the face of this key.
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The steel mills were laying people off.
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And working in a paper mill ain't going to save this country.
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Oh, when I was in college, I was working part-time during the summer at a steel mill.
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The heaviest, most flavorful seeds sink to the bottom of the mill, where they're collected and taken to ferment in a tub of water for one or two days.
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The farmer took the grain to the mill to have it ground into flour.
Synonyms
27
2.5
A machine that crushes materials, for example coffee beans
3
8.6
A heavy machine that pounds or crushes rock at a mine
2
2.3
A machine that turns roasted coffee beans into small pieces
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7.2
A machine that crushes things into powder or small pieces
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2.2
A building or machine that grinds grain into flour
1
9.8
A mill that grinds grain into flour for local farmers
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2.9
A small machine that grinds roasted coffee beans into small pieces to make coffee
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3.9
A place where people press apples to make apple cider
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3.6
A building where flowing water turns a wheel and machines grind grain or cut wood
1
5.9
A machine that grinds plant material into small pieces to cover soil
Machines that grind or crush materials like grain into smaller pieces
A machine that crushes quartz rock to get gold or other metals
A machine that crushes rock to get metal from it
A machine that crushes rock that has metal in it to get metals like gold
A heavy bar in a machine that moves up and down to crush rocks
A small machine that grinds whole spices into powder
Idioms
Compounds
- Offensive
1
9.3
A clinic that ends pregnancies and is criticized for doing many of them
- Specialized
1
7.4
A machine that presses hot metal between heavy rollers to make sheets or bars
- Offensive
1
9.5
An organization that gives degrees for little or no study and is not officially recognised
- Archaic
A machine in a cloth factory that uses wire cylinders to make fabric soft and fuzzy
- Archaic
A factory machine that uses wire rollers to lift fibers and make fabric soft and fuzzy
- Specialized
A deep vertical hole in a glacier where melt water falls through the ice
- Offensive
A website or group that sells fake religious certificates quickly for money
- Specialized
A large machine that spins big metal parts so a tool can cut and drill them
How Powerful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mill as a machine comes from the old Latin root molere 'to grind', and it names the tool that crushes grain, coffee, or ore; think of meal (ground grain) and molar teeth that grind food, so a mill is a tool for grinding.