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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.

Quern


Definition:

  • (n.) A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills.

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