MILL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mill mean? 

• MILL (noun)
  The noun MILL has 5 senses:

1. a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing

2. Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)

3. English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)

4. machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing

5. the act of grinding to a powder or dust

  Familiarity information: MILL used as a noun is common.

• MILL (verb)
  The verb MILL has 4 senses:

1. move about in a confused manner

2. grind with a mill

3. produce a ridge around the edge of

4. roll out (metal) with a rolling machine

  Familiarity information: MILL used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

factory; manufactory; manufacturing plant; mill

Hypernyms ("mill" is a kind of...):

industrial plant; plant; works (buildings for carrying on industrial labor)

Meronyms (parts of "mill"):

shop floor (workplace consisting of the part of a factory housing the machines)

assembly line; line; production line (mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it)

Domain member category:

conveyer; conveyer belt; conveyor; conveyor belt; transporter (a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory))

uptime (a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is functioning and available for use)

closed-circuit television (a television system that is not used for broadcasting but is connected by cables to designated monitors (as in a factory or theater))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mill"):

auto factory; automobile factory; car factory (a factory where automobiles are manufactured)

cannery (a factory where food is canned)

chemical plant (an industrial plant where chemicals are produced)

foundry; metalworks (factory where metal castings are produced)

lumbermill; sawmill (a mill for dressing logs and lumber)

paper mill (a mill where paper is manufactured)

stamp mill; stamping mill (a mill in which ore is crushed with stamps)

steel factory; steel mill; steel plant; steelworks (a factory where steel is made)

sweatshop (factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry)

textile mill (a factory for making textiles)

assembly plant (a factory where manufactured parts are assembled into a finished product)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

James Mill; Mill

Instance hypernyms:

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

Sense 3

Meaning:

English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

John Mill; John Stuart Mill; Mill

Instance hypernyms:

economic expert; economist (an expert in the science of economics)

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

grinder; mill; milling machinery

Hypernyms ("mill" is a kind of...):

machinery (machines or machine systems collectively)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mill"):

windmill (a mill that is powered by the wind)

water mill (a mill powered by a water wheel)

tread-wheel; treadmill; treadwheel (a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps)

spicemill (a mill for grinding spices)

quern (a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand)

pepper grinder; pepper mill (a mill for grinding pepper)

meat grinder (a mill for grinding meat)

gristmill (a mill for grinding grain (especially the customer's own grain))

flour mill (a mill for grinding grain into flour)

coffee grinder; coffee mill (a mill that grinds roasted coffee beans)

cider mill (mill that extracts juice from apples to make apple cider)

Derivation:

mill (grind with a mill)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The act of grinding to a powder or dust

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

grind; mill; pulverisation; pulverization

Hypernyms ("mill" is a kind of...):

compaction; crunch; crush (the act of crushing)

Derivation:

mill (grind with a mill)

• MILL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they mill    ... he / she / it mills   
Past simple: milled   
Past participle: milled   
-ing form: milling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move about in a confused manner

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

mill; mill about; mill around

Hypernyms (to "mill" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Grind with a mill

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

mill grain

Hypernyms (to "mill" is one way to...):

bray; comminute; crunch; grind; mash (reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

mill (the act of grinding to a powder or dust)

mill (machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Produce a ridge around the edge of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

mill a coin

Hypernyms (to "mill" is one way to...):

groove (make a groove in, or provide with a groove)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

milling (corrugated edge of a coin)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Roll out (metal) with a rolling machine

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "mill" is one way to...):

roll; roll out (flatten or spread with a roller)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

On the way he passed by a mill, and there sat a raven with broken wings, and out of pity he took him and wrapped him in the skin.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“At seven,” says Traddles, looking at his plain old silver watch—the very watch he once took a wheel out of, at school, to make a water-mill.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Milling is the most common process used.

(Particle Size Reduction, NCI Thesaurus)

“I should fancy that you could hardly wish a better place for a mill than the sloping field beyond. I am quite sure that no one will interfere with you there.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There, too, is the mill of Le Souris.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Perhaps to Hartfield, perhaps to the Abbey Mill, perhaps into his woods.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Unlike refined grains, which undergo extensive milling or other processing, whole grains are sold for consumption with their bran and other constituents intact—all rich in vitamins, minerals, fiber, carbohydrates, and phytonutrients.

(Whole Grains Deliver on Health Benefits, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

The act of forming granules by mechanically applying pressure by rollers to form a compact that is subsequently milled and screened resulting in dry granules.

(Dry Roller Compaction Granulation, NCI Thesaurus)

Mills and team point out that the areas with co-existing winter brown and winter white animals would be places with special potential for evolutionary rescue, where genetically driven adaptive traits reverse population decline.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

The act of forming granules by mechanically applying pressure by punch and die to form a compact that is subsequently milled and screened resulting in dry granules.

(Dry Slugging Granulation, NCI Thesaurus)