mill
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English[edit]
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Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English mille, Old English mylen.
Noun[edit]
mill (plural mills)
- A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
- Pepper has a stronger flavor when it is ground straight from a mill.
- The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
- My grandfather worked in a mill.
- A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
- A steel mill.
- A building housing such a plant.
- An establishment that handles a certain type of situation routinely, such as a divorce mill, etc.
- (informal) an engine
- (informal) a boxing match, fistfight
- 1914, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Mucker[1], edition HTML, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
- The name of the "white hope" against whom Billy was to go was sufficient to draw a fair house, and there were some there who had seen Billy in other fights and looked for a good mill.
- 1914, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Mucker[1], edition HTML, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
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Etymology 2[edit]
Ultimately from Latin millesimum.
Noun[edit]
mill (plural mills)
- An obsolete coin with value one-thousandth of a dollar, or one-tenth of a cent.
- One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
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- (one thousandth part):
- percent
- basis point
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Etymology 3[edit]
From the noun mill
Verb[edit]
mill (third-person singular simple present mills, present participle milling, simple past and past participle milled)
- (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
- to mill flour
- (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
- (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
- (intransitive) (followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
- I didn't have much to do, so I just milled around the town looking at the shops.
- (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
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References[edit]
- mill in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- mill in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
External links[edit]
Mill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Mill in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Albanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Albanian *mis-lo (regular sl > Alb. /ll/), from Proto-Indo-European *mois 'sheep, hide; leatherwork'. Compare Old High German meisa (“baggage”), Bulgarian mucha (“tube”).
Noun[edit]
mill m (indefinite plural mije, definite singular milli, definite plural mijet)
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Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin milium.
Noun[edit]
mill m (plural mills)
Irish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA: [mʲiːlʲ] or [mʲɪlʲ]
Verb[edit]
mill (present analytic milleann, future analytic millfidh, verbal noun milleadh, past participle millte)
- To spoil
Conjugation[edit]
† Dialect form
Mutation[edit]
| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| mill | mhill | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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Manx[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Irish mil.
Noun[edit]
mill m (genitive molley, plural millyn)
Mutation[edit]
| Manx mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| mill | vill | unchanged |
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Scottish Gaelic[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA: /miːʎ/
Verb[edit]
mill (verbal noun milleadh)
Noun[edit]
mill m
Wiradhuri[edit]
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Noun[edit]
mill
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