Mill - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)
- English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)
- machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing (syn: grinder)
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust (syn: grind, pulverization)
verb
- grind with a mill
Extra examples
The crowd was milling outside the exit.
...a demonstration of how dried kernels of corn were milled in colonial times...
The crowds were milling about in the streets.
Are you saying they paid a quarter of a mill for that house?
All our flours are milled using traditional methods.
Add some freshly milled black pepper.
I shouldn't have been milled if it hadn't been for her advice. (Ch. Dickens)
Some of the mill's machinery was damaged in the fire.
He lived a pedestrian life, working at the paper mill and living in his trailer.
...fell into the racecourse for an abandoned water mill...
The mill can flour two hundred barrels a day.
Water provides the motive power that operates the mill.
The mill produces what is widely acknowledged to be the finest wool in the world.
Any publicity is good - it's all grist to the mill.
The area around the mill pond has also been landscaped.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: mill
he/she/it: mills
present participle: milling
past tense: milled
past participle: milled
singular: mill
plural: mills
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