Mill
noun
A building where machines are used to make things such as flour from grain or paper from wood.
The grain is ground into flour at a local mill.
Often appears as...
- paper mill
- flour mill
noun
A machine used for crushing or grinding a solid substance into powder.
A pepper mill for grinding whole peppercorns into powder.
Often appears as...
- coffee mill
- grain mill
verb
To grind or crush something in a mill.
The wheat is milled into flour.
Often appears as...
- mill grain
- mill wheat
verb
To move around in a confused mass or a crowd.
People were milling around in the streets, waiting for the parade to start.
noun
A type of small coin.
I found an old mill at the bottom of my piggy bank.
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Archaic
verb
To shape, polish, or finish with a mill or other machine.
The jeweler milled the edges of the coin to give it a distinct pattern.
Often appears as...
- mill edges
- mill surface
noun
A building where machines are used to make things such as flour from grain or paper from wood.
The grain is ground into flour at a local mill.
Often appears as...
- paper mill
- flour mill
noun
A machine used for crushing or grinding a solid substance into powder.
A pepper mill for grinding whole peppercorns into powder.
Often appears as...
- coffee mill
- grain mill
verb
To grind or crush something in a mill.
The wheat is milled into flour.
Often appears as...
- mill grain
- mill wheat
verb
To move around in a confused mass or a crowd.
People were milling around in the streets, waiting for the parade to start.
noun
A type of small coin.
I found an old mill at the bottom of my piggy bank.
Usage tips
Archaic
verb
To shape, polish, or finish with a mill or other machine.
The jeweler milled the edges of the coin to give it a distinct pattern.
Often appears as...
- mill edges
- mill surface
Definition 1 of 6
Pro Tip 1/2Industry Specific
Used for places producing goods at a large scale, often historical significance.
The textile mill closed down due to competition from overseas.
Pro Tip 2/2Historical Landmarks
Mills could be preserved as museums showcasing historical manufacturing.
We toured the old flour mill that's now a historical landmark.
Pro Tip 1/2Industry Specific
Used for places producing goods at a large scale, often historical significance.
The textile mill closed down due to competition from overseas.
Pro Tip 2/2Historical Landmarks
Mills could be preserved as museums showcasing historical manufacturing.
We toured the old flour mill that's now a historical landmark.
Pro Tip 1/2Industry Specific
Used for places producing goods at a large scale, often historical significance.
The textile mill closed down due to competition from overseas.
Pro Tip 2/2Historical Landmarks
Mills could be preserved as museums showcasing historical manufacturing.
We toured the old flour mill that's now a historical landmark.
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Paul Nicklen: Emperors...
so clear you could watch the whole show go on thirty to forty feet deep they're milling around and they're looking up and they're constantly sending out like work parties to go look under the ice looking for leopard seals and once they're sure the coast is clear they start to exit one by one and look at that jet stream of air coming off that penguin as they rocket to the
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America's forgotten...
So my grandparents, the very first time that they had kids, they expected that they were going to raise them in a way that was uniquely good. They were middle class, they were able to earn a good wage in a steel mill. But what ended up happening is that they exposed their kids to a lot of the childhood trauma
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How frustration can make...
These distractions were actually grists to their creative mill. They were able to think outside the box because their box was full of holes. Let's talk about complexity science. So how do you solve a really complex -- the world's full of complicated problems -- how do you solve a really complicated problem?
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How coffee got quicker PIPE...
packaging and selling pre-roasted beans. And in a moment of vision, he takes the process one step farther making his mill the world's first to grind the already roasted beans on a large scale, then pack them conveniently into small, consumer-friendly tins.
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Wombats Poo Cubes! PIPE...
and the very characteristic smell it's got to be only one thing, that's bat droppings. It is bat droppings and one has just escaped onto the table there. these are serotine bat droppings and I collected them from an old mill in Hampshire last year
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4 ways to make a city...
from the soot of the dark, satanic mills, the planners said, hey, let's move the housing away from the mills. And lifespans increased immediately, dramatically, and we like to say the planners have been trying to repeat that experience ever since.
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How to rebuild the world...
we take that flour and we cook it we bake bread and the heat of the fire makes the food taste nice but most importantly helps to break down the food so that we can absorb it so in a very real sense the mill stones are like a
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Jennifer Senior: For...
a child-rearing universe without any norms to guide us? Well, for starters, there has been a major historical change. Until fairly recently, kids worked, on our farms primarily, but also in factories, mills, mines.
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This Clown Philosopher...
I get my inspiration from the characters and bits and routines from observing people observing myself reading traveling I mean everything is grist for the mill I mean everything is you know
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The Perfect Beer PIPE...
already malted milling the malt is the first step in the brewing process in the mill the malted barley grains are cracked cracking the outer shell of the malt helps release the starch from
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Paul Nicklen: Emperors...
so clear you could watch the whole show go on thirty to forty feet deep they're milling around and they're looking up and they're constantly sending out like work parties to go look under the ice looking for leopard seals and once they're sure the coast is clear they start to exit one by one and look at that jet stream of air coming off that penguin as they rocket to the
Video examples
America's forgotten...
So my grandparents, the very first time that they had kids, they expected that they were going to raise them in a way that was uniquely good. They were middle class, they were able to earn a good wage in a steel mill. But what ended up happening is that they exposed their kids to a lot of the childhood trauma
Video examples
How frustration can make...
These distractions were actually grists to their creative mill. They were able to think outside the box because their box was full of holes. Let's talk about complexity science. So how do you solve a really complex -- the world's full of complicated problems -- how do you solve a really complicated problem?
Video examples
How coffee got quicker PIPE...
packaging and selling pre-roasted beans. And in a moment of vision, he takes the process one step farther making his mill the world's first to grind the already roasted beans on a large scale, then pack them conveniently into small, consumer-friendly tins.
Video examples
Wombats Poo Cubes! PIPE...
and the very characteristic smell it's got to be only one thing, that's bat droppings. It is bat droppings and one has just escaped onto the table there. these are serotine bat droppings and I collected them from an old mill in Hampshire last year
Video examples
4 ways to make a city...
from the soot of the dark, satanic mills, the planners said, hey, let's move the housing away from the mills. And lifespans increased immediately, dramatically, and we like to say the planners have been trying to repeat that experience ever since.
Video examples
How to rebuild the world...
we take that flour and we cook it we bake bread and the heat of the fire makes the food taste nice but most importantly helps to break down the food so that we can absorb it so in a very real sense the mill stones are like a
Video examples
Jennifer Senior: For...
a child-rearing universe without any norms to guide us? Well, for starters, there has been a major historical change. Until fairly recently, kids worked, on our farms primarily, but also in factories, mills, mines.
Video examples
This Clown Philosopher...
I get my inspiration from the characters and bits and routines from observing people observing myself reading traveling I mean everything is grist for the mill I mean everything is you know
Video examples
The Perfect Beer PIPE...
already malted milling the malt is the first step in the brewing process in the mill the malted barley grains are cracked cracking the outer shell of the malt helps release the starch from
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Jim Kelly
American Athlete
I did not start hunting until later in life. When I was a kid growing up in Pennsylvania, my dad worked at a steel mill, and we didn't have the means to buy guns or take off and go hunting. But I loved being outdoors. I built tree stands and ground blinds in the woods and pretended that I was hunting.
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Millicent Fawcett
British Activist
If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.
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Dhanush
Indian Actor
I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.
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Mary Harris Jones
American Activist
In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?
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James Thomson
Scottish Musician
The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.
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Sara Gideon
American Politician
Loggers and mills in Maine and across the country deserve fair trade policies and more support from our federal government.
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David Tepper
American Businessman
I was never afraid to go back to Pittsburgh and work in the steel mills.
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George Osborne
British Politician
It was the Conservatives who first protected people in the mills.
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Mary Stewart
English Novelist
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
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Daniel D. Palmer
Canadian Celebrity
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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Jim Kelly
American Athlete
I did not start hunting until later in life. When I was a kid growing up in Pennsylvania, my dad worked at a steel mill, and we didn't have the means to buy guns or take off and go hunting. But I loved being outdoors. I built tree stands and ground blinds in the woods and pretended that I was hunting.
Quote examples
Millicent Fawcett
British Activist
If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.
Quote examples
Dhanush
Indian Actor
I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.
Quote examples
Mary Harris Jones
American Activist
In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?
Quote examples
James Thomson
Scottish Musician
The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.
Quote examples
Sara Gideon
American Politician
Loggers and mills in Maine and across the country deserve fair trade policies and more support from our federal government.
Quote examples
David Tepper
American Businessman
I was never afraid to go back to Pittsburgh and work in the steel mills.
Quote examples
George Osborne
British Politician
It was the Conservatives who first protected people in the mills.
Quote examples
Mary Stewart
English Novelist
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
Quote examples
Daniel D. Palmer
Canadian Celebrity
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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