mill
noun
[ mɪl ]
• a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour.
• a factory fitted with machinery for a particular manufacturing process.
• "a steel mill"
• an engine.
• a boxing match or a fist fight.
mill
verb
• grind (something) in a mill.
• "hard wheats are easily milled into white flour"
Similar:
grind,
pulverize,
powder,
granulate,
kibble,
grate,
pound,
crush,
crunch,
press,
comminute,
triturate,
bray,
levigate,
• cut or shape (metal) with a rotating tool.
• "in the machine shop we mill and grind the castings"
• (of people or animals) move around in a confused mass.
• "tourists were milling about in the lobby"
• thicken (wool or another animal fibre) by fulling it.
• "ordinary wool blankets are made by milling a woven wool fabric"
Origin:
Old English mylen, based on late Latin molinum, from Latin mola ‘grindstone, mill’, from molere ‘to grind’.
mill
noun
• a monetary unit used only in calculations, worth one thousandth of a dollar.
Origin:
late 18th century: from Latin millesimum ‘thousandth part’; compare with cent.
