moletear

Phonetic: "/mɪl/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.

Example: Pepper has a stronger flavor when it is ground straight from a mill.

Definition: The building housing such a grinding apparatus.

Example: My grandfather worked in a mill.

Definition: A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process.

Example: a cider mill; a cane mill

Definition: A machine for grinding and polishing.

Example: a lapidary mill

Definition: The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.

Definition: A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.

Example: a steel mill

Definition: A building housing such a plant.

Definition: An 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.

Definition: An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised

Definition: An engine.

Definition: A boxing match, fistfight.

Definition: (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.

Definition: An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.

Definition: A passage underground through which ore is shot.

Definition: A milling cutter.

Definition: A treadmill.

Definition: A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.

Phonetic: "/mɪl/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.

Example: to mill flour

Definition: To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.

Definition: To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).

Definition: (followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.

Example: I didn't have much to do, so I just milled around the town looking at the shops.

Definition: To cause to mill, or circle around.

Example: to mill cattle

Definition: (of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.

Definition: (of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.

Definition: To beat; to pound.

Definition: To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.

Definition: To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.

Definition: To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.

Definition: To undergo hulling.

Example: This maize mills well.

Definition: To take part in a fistfight; to box.

Definition: To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.

Definition: (thieves' cant) To commit burglary.