mill
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3.4
- noun
- /mɪl/
:
molienda
- At the old mill, workers used to grind wheat into fine powder for the community.
Examples
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The mill processes grains, turning them into flour for baking.
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We visited a local mill where they grind coffee beans every day.
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After parts inventory arrived, the mill was rebuilt to new condition.
Academic text (1998) -
There was no need, for he had won: the family textile mills were all his.
Fiction book (1995) -
Mechanical power began with water wheels and mills and moved to steam power and then to electricity.
Academic text (2012) -
Lois turned and headed toward the mill and the swinging bridge.
Fiction book (1990) -
[Jack] A couple years later, Howard moved to Martinville, found work in the textile mills there.
Synonyms
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2.5
The act of crushing something into small pieces or powder
A process that crushes or grinds something into a fine powder
The act of grinding grain into flour
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 Fine
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mill can mean the act of grinding and comes from the same root molere 'to grind', so a 'mill' in this sense is the process of turning something into fine powder, like making flour or spice meal.