What's the difference between fistfight and mill?

Fistfight


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Trump encouraged his supporters to get into fistfights with protesters , and seems to fantasize about doing the same to CNN .
  • (2) The primary specific causes of these injuries were fistfights (nearly 30%), sports (over 20%), and vehicles (about 15%).
  • (3) Most of his conflicts have been highly personal: during a radio debate while running for the regional Duma in 2006, he got into a fistfight with his opponent, while his conflict with United Russia governor Kuivashev came after Roizman's girlfriend and campaign manager, Aksana Panova, spurned the governor's advances, she told the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
  • (4) After the Labour MP Eric Joyce brawled in a bar at the House of Commons, political bloggers rated the best political fistfights .
  • (5) He was also slightly injured in a New York nightclub brawl and, earlier this year, was accused of being involved in a fistfight with Frank Ocean’s entourage over a parking spot at a West Hollywood recording studio.
  • (6) In a parliament that has long been known for altercations and fistfights, there were fears that the new set of MPs could prove more unruly than ever, especially after the commanders of two volunteer battalions active in the east had promised to solve their personal differences “like men” inside parliament.
  • (7) However, the deal soon fell apart, with fistfights breaking out in the auditing centre where disputed ballots are being assessed and that process being halted numerous times.
  • (8) Fistfights and shouting matches raged on throughout the morning as the two sides fought for control of the microphone.
  • (9) In 1995, Kusturica was involved in a fistfight on the beach in Cannes, after winning his Palme d'Or for Underground .
  • (10) The fistfight-to-the-death scene was done with such startling verisimilitude that nearly all the stage furniture was demolished nightly, and Gough broke three ribs and injured the base of his spine.
  • (11) These fistfights occurred not just when he was a young student but also when he was an "officer" – after he had joined the KGB.
  • (12) Foreigners: please be aware that your sudden awareness of our political fistfights is but a Twitter phenomenon.
  • (13) Plenty of female designers are bucking stereotypes, working, not just on family-friendly Wii titles, but on action adventures, filled with shoot-outs and fistfights.

Mill


Definition:

  • (n.) A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
  • (n.) A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.
  • (n.) 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; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.
  • (n.) A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
  • (n.) A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.
  • (n.) A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.
  • (n.) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
  • (n.) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
  • (n.) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
  • (n.) A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.
  • (n.) A pugilistic.
  • (n.) To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
  • (n.) To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
  • (n.) To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.
  • (n.) To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
  • (n.) To beat with the fists.
  • (n.) To roll into bars, as steel.
  • (v. i.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
  • (2) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
  • (3) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
  • (4) This is a report on a male patient of 71 years of age who had been a graphite mill worker for about 14 years.
  • (5) What seems beyond doubt is that Koussa has long represented the old guard which for decades was close to Gaddafi, but which – if the Tripoli rumour mill is to be believed – has recently been pushed aside by Gaddafi's competing sons.
  • (6) It obviously helps to have a waterfront, red bricks and cotton mills,” said Professor Karel Williams at Manchester Business School.
  • (7) Airborne endotoxin also was estimated in the different work places of the mill.
  • (8) 800,000 U and 1.5 mill U SK recanalized infarct-related arteries at a rate of 78%.
  • (9) A cross-sectional study of 315 animal feed workers was undertaken in 14 animal feed mills in the Netherlands.
  • (10) A study was conducted to estimate the exposure-response relationship for tremolite-actinolite fiber exposure and radiographic findings among 184 men employed at a Montana vermiculite mine and mill.
  • (11) Mills said the operators' maps, which he copied, showed the mark was to be the site of a detonation.
  • (12) Two hundred and seventy-one men seen in 1963, who worked in a pulp and a paper mill, were followed up ten years later, in 1973.
  • (13) No significant changes in respiratory function or bronchial responsiveness related to exposure to hydrogen sulphide in the pulp mill workers were found.
  • (14) This was caused by ingestion of branches of the alder buckthorn (Frangula alnus (mill.)
  • (15) To create a new bank, which we understand is an option, which could be called Glyn Mills, is ridiculously back to the future.
  • (16) Under an abandoned flour mill and in a "howling, freezing" power station, he had "eaten sandwiches and coffee coated thick with dust".
  • (17) Non-occupational exposure of the population living in the vicinity of the serpentine mining and processing mill in Nasławice was assessed.
  • (18) The concentration of hyaluronan was measured in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) of 18 control subjects and 27 workers from the asbestos mills and mines of Québec, 9 without asbestosis and 18 with asbestosis.
  • (19) The erythrocytic stages of Plasmodium falciparum from Aotus trivirgatus were grown in Mill Hill medium.
  • (20) Video of flooding in Barcombe Mills, East Sussex 12.07pm GMT Lord Smith of the Environment Agency due to speak from Somerset soon.

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