EnglishEspañolFrançaisDeutschItalianoPortuguêsРусский日本語한국어العربيةहिन्दीTürkçe
🔍

Mills

noun
/mɪlz/
Word Frequency: 12.2

Definitions

1.nounA grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
"Pepper has a stronger flavor when it is ground straight from a mill."
2.nounThe building housing such a grinding apparatus.
"My grandfather worked in a mill."
3.nounA machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process.
"a cider mill; a cane mill"
4.nounA machine for grinding and polishing.
"a lapidary mill"
5.nounThe raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
6.nounA manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
"a steel mill"
7.nounA building housing such a plant.
8.nounAn establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.
9.nounAn institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
10.nounAn engine.
11.nounA boxing match, fistfight.
12.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.
13.nounAn excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
14.nounA passage underground through which ore is shot.
15.nounA milling cutter.
16.nounA treadmill.
17.nounA typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
18.verbTo grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
"to mill flour"
19.verbTo shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
20.verbTo engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
21.verb(followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
"I didn't have much to do, so I just milled around the town looking at the shops."
22.verbTo cause to mill, or circle around.
"to mill cattle"
23.verb(of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
24.verb(of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
25.verbTo beat; to pound.
26.verbTo pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
27.verbTo roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
28.verbTo make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
29.verbTo undergo hulling.
"This maize mills well."
30.verbTo take part in a fistfight; to box.
31.verbTo fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
32.verb(thieves' cant) To commit burglary.
33.nounAn obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
34.nounOne thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
35.nounA line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
36.noun(trading card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
37.noun(trading card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
38.verb(trading card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
39.verb(Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.

Synonyms

factoryworksroamwanderpermille‰₥burnpulverisationpulverizationgrindmanufactory

Rhymes With

chillsthrillsfillsfrillsfoothillspillsgillsstills
🔗 Find words with "mills" in A2Z Word Finder
The Daily Word NerdA new word, a puzzle, and a fun fact — free in your inbox every morning.
Free forever · unsubscribe anytime · all 14 newsletters
That email did not go through — please check it and try again.