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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.

Polish


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants.
  • (n.) The language of the Poles.
  • (v. t.) To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners.
  • (v. i.) To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well.
  • (n.) A smooth, glossy surface, usually produced by friction; a gloss or luster.
  • (n.) Anything used to produce a gloss.
  • (n.) Fig.: Refinement; elegance of manners.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The usefulness of porous tarflen materials (tarflen--Polish name of teflon produced by Zakłady Azotowe in Tarnów, Poland) for this application was evaluated by comparing their properties with those of American porous teflon membranes used in membrane oxygenators.
  • (2) The accident on 10 April 2010, killed the president, first lady and dozens of senior officials, in the worst Polish air disaster since the second world war.
  • (3) Photograph: Polish Government Despite his clear-eyed approach to the looted artworks, Wächter maintains that his father was an unwilling cog in the Nazi killing machine, a position that has won him many critics.
  • (4) Since 1930 Dr. Rakowiecki has started as self-taught astronomy studies becoming soon one of seven most eminent Polish astronomers.
  • (5) There is a picture, drawn by Polish cartoonist Marek Raczkowski: a crowd of people demonstrating in the street, carrying aloft a big banner that simply reads "FUUUCK!''.
  • (6) This in turn meant frantic investment in German coal and lignite – 10 new plants are said to be opening – and a surge in Polish coal output.
  • (7) Romanians making Polish wages go down.” Then he adds: “The Romanian, he not the worst.
  • (8) Many ceramists advocate polishing, rather than glazing, to control the surface luster of metal ceramic restorations.
  • (9) The results were compared to controls and children with JRA in Polish populations (where amyloidosis is a frequent complication of JRA) as well as to American children with JRA (where amyloidosis in JRA has been observed only sporadically) and American control children.
  • (10) Below-zero temperatures crowned the top of the US from Idaho to Minnesota, where many roads still had an inch-thick plate of ice, polished smooth by traffic and impervious to ice-melting chemicals.
  • (11) Polish foreign affairs minister Radoslaw Sikorski has opposed the ships being handed over.
  • (12) Obama spoke on the phone with Merkel, the British prime minister, David Cameron , and the Polish president, Bronisław Komorowski.
  • (13) Russia is Europe's second largest market for food and drink and has been an important consumer of Polish pig meat and Dutch fruit and vegetables.
  • (14) This cross-sectional study was undertaken after the discovery of cobalt-related fibrosing alveolitis and bronchial asthma in diamond polishers occupationally exposed to cobalt.
  • (15) Polished rice samples harvested in 1985 were collected from 25 prefectures throughout Japan.
  • (16) She is very sophisticated, she is polished, and she can speak to the issues.
  • (17) The leakage of the dye that was observed in each of the groups might have been caused by the ineffectiveness of, or the ineffective use of, the nail polish or cyanoacrylate used to coat all but the apically sealed tips of the endodonticalled prepared teeth.
  • (18) Early corrosion phenomena required re-polishing every three months.
  • (19) The remaining incisor was carefully polished and served as an enamel surface.
  • (20) Cobalt-60, Polish-made BK-10,000 cobalt bombs, and Canadian-made Gammacell were placed in the irradiation chamber to provide irradiation.

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