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- Dictionarymill/mɪl/
noun
- 1. a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour. Similar
- 2. a factory fitted with machinery for a particular manufacturing process: "a steel mill"
verb
- 1. grind (something) in a mill: "hard wheats are easily milled into white flour"
- 2. cut or shape (metal) with a rotating tool: "in the machine shop we mill and grind the castings"
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a building where grain is crushed into flour. a small machine for crushing things into powder: a pepper / coffee mill. a factory where a particular substance is produced: a cotton / paper / steel mill. Fewer examples. When the large cog wheel engages (with the smaller one), the mill stone will start to go round.
a. : a machine or apparatus for grinding grain. b. : a device or machine for reducing something (as by crushing or grinding) to small pieces or particles. a pepper mill. c. : a machine for hulling grain kernels (as of rice, oats, or spelt) 3. : a building or collection of buildings with machinery for manufacturing.
noun. a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, or textiles. a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour and other cereal products. a machine for grinding, crushing, or pulverizing any solid substance: a coffee mill.
Definition of mill noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Define mill. mill synonyms, mill pronunciation, mill translation, English dictionary definition of mill. n. 1. a. A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour or meal. b. A device or mechanism that grinds grain. 2. a. A building or farm...
A mill is a factory used for making and processing materials such as steel, wool, or cotton. ...a steel mill. ...a textile mill. Synonyms: factory, works, shop, plant More Synonyms of mill. 4. verb. To mill something such as wheat or pepper means to grind it in a mill. They mill 1000 tonnes of flour a day in every Australian state. [VERB noun]
A mill is a factory or plant, especially one that's equipped for grinding grain into flour. The facility is a mill, and the machine that does the actual grinding is also called a mill. When a mill crushes and grinds grain like wheat or corn, you can say it mills flour.
MILL definition: 1. a machine for crushing grain into flour, or a building with this machine: 2. a small machine…. Learn more.
a machine for grinding, crushing, or pulverizing any solid substance: a coffee mill. any of various machines that modify the shape or size of a workpiece by rotating tools or the work: rolling mill. any of various other apparatuses for shaping materials or performing other mechanical operations.
Mill definition: A machine or device that reduces a solid or coarse substance into pulp or minute grains by crushing, grinding, or pressing.
