mill
Other forms: milled
A mill is a factory or plant, especially one that's equipped for grinding grain into flour. The facility is a mill, and the machine that does the actual grinding is also called a mill.
When a mill crushes and grinds grain like wheat or corn, you can say it mills flour. Other kinds of mills might mill powder or coffee — and still other mills don't actually grind anything; instead, they manufacture things like steel or paper. If someone "mills around," they wander or move about in a confused way: "The crowd mills around during the concert's intermission." This sense of mill was originally used to describe cattle.
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a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
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synonyms:
factory, manufactory, manufacturing plant
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assembly plant
a factory where manufactured parts are assembled into a finished product
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auto factory, automobile factory, car factory
a factory where automobiles are manufactured
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cannery
a factory where food is canned
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chemical plant
an industrial plant where chemicals are produced
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foundry, metalworks
factory where metal castings are produced
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lumbermill, sawmill
a mill for dressing logs and lumber
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paper mill
a mill where paper is manufactured
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stamp mill, stamping mill
a mill in which ore is crushed with stamps
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steel factory, steel mill, steel plant, steelworks
a factory where steel is made
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sweatshop
factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry
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textile mill
a factory for making textiles
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armory, armoury, arsenal
a place where arms are manufactured
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battery, stamp battery
a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores
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bell foundry
a foundry where bells are cast
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cotton mill
a textile mill for making cotton textiles
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iron foundry
a foundry where cast iron is produced
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maquiladora
an assembly plant in Mexico (near the United States border); parts are shipped into Mexico and the finished product is shipped back across the border
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quartz battery, quartz mill
a stamp mill for stamping quartz
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rolling mill
steel mill where metal is rolled into sheets and bars
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industrial plant, plant, works
buildings for carrying on industrial labor
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machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
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synonyms:
grinder, milling machinery
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cider mill
mill that extracts juice from apples to make apple cider
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coffee grinder, coffee mill
a mill that grinds roasted coffee beans
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flour mill
a mill for grinding grain into flour
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gristmill
a mill for grinding grain (especially the customer's own grain)
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meat grinder
a mill for grinding meat
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pepper grinder, pepper mill
a mill for grinding pepper
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quern
a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand
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spicemill
a mill for grinding spices
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tread-wheel, treadmill, treadwheel
a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps
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water mill
a mill powered by a water wheel
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windmill
a mill that is powered by the wind
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machinery
machines or machine systems collectively
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the act of grinding to a powder or dust
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synonyms:
grind, pulverisation, pulverization
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compaction, crunch, crush
the act of crushing
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compaction, crunch, crush
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grind with a mill
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roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
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produce a ridge around the edge of“mill a coin”
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groove
make a groove in, or provide with a groove
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groove
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move about in a confused manner
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synonyms:
mill about, mill around
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move
move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
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move
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