mill
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2.3
- noun
- /mɪl/
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fábrica
- In the summer, the old mill offers guided tours to educate visitors about its role in producing textiles.
- steel mill
- cotton mill
- textile mill
They have mills there that fabric mills that are older than our country.
- They have mills there that fabric mills that are older than our country.
- I went to work with my dad in the mill in like cotton mill.
- I got this job now in the wood mill, you know, cutting some logs.
- But the Old Mill was a complete flipping disaster.
Examples
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My mother worked at a factory, and my father worked at a steel mill.
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David had grown up in a small mill town in southern New Hampshire.
Fiction book (1990) -
- We had a paper mill.
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I want a report from each mill and a map tracking all leads.
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Between 2004 and 2010, the forest industry collapsed almost entirely, resulting in mill closures and job losses.
Academic text (2013) -
It's from the finest lumber our mills can supply.
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Three years later, there were 15 shrimp feed mills and a market demand of 100,000 t.
Academic text (1990) -
Ah, the steel mills.
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We own a steel mill in Cleveland, shipping in Texas, oil refineries in Seattle, and a factory in Chicago, that makes miniature models... of factories.
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The convergence of railroads and waterways resulted in steel mills popping up along the southern tip of Lake Michigan.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
981
4.8
A building or group of buildings where goods are made
869
1.0
A building where people make goods using machines
12
3.2
A large factory where goods are made using machines
1
9.2
A large building where people make things, like a factory
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
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Mill originally meant a building where people used machines to grind grain, coming from the old Latin root molere meaning 'to grind'; over time the name was used for other buildings that process materials, which is why a textile or steel mill is a place that makes goods.