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Definition: Mill |
MillNoun1. A plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing. 2. Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836). 3. English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873). 4. Machine that processes materials by grinding or crushing. 5. The act of grinding. Verb1. Move about in a confused manner. 2. Grind with a mill; "mill grain". 3. Of the edge of a coin. 4. Roll out (metal) with a rolling machine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Note: Mill \Mill\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Milled; Milling.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Mill Arithmetic and Logic Unit. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Bible | Mill for grinding corn, mentioned as used in the time of Abraham (Gen. 18:6). That used by the Hebrews consisted of two circular stones, each 2 feet in diameter and half a foot thick, the lower of which was called the "nether millstone" (Job 41:24) and the upper the "rider." The upper stone was turned round by a stick fixed in it as a handle. There were then no public mills, and thus each family required to be provided with a hand-mill. The corn was ground daily, generally by the women of the house (Isa. 47:1, 2; Matt. 24:41). It was with the upper stone of a hand-mill that "a certain woman" at Thebez broke Abimelech's skull (Judg. 9:53, "a piece of a millstone;" literally, "a millstone rider", i.e., the "runner," the stone which revolves. Comp. 2 Sam. 11:21). Millstones could not be pledged (Deut. 24:6), as they were necessary in every family. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a mill, indicates thrift and fortunate undertakings. To see a dilapidated mill, denotes sickness and ill fortune. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Economics | The equipment, including machinery, tools, instruments, and fixtures, and the buildings containing them. Source: European Union. (references) |
Energy | A common utility monetary measure equal to one-thousandth of a dollar or a tenth of a cent. (references) |
Finance | One tenth of one percent; a measure used to state property tax rates. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Generally, any industrial plant, i. e. both fixtures(e. g. buildings)and machines, in which timber is worked mechanically, notably by saws or planers, into products, particularly for commercial purposes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Machine consisting of 2 iron or steel counter-rotating rolls used to warm, mix and blend rubber compounds. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Any processing machine, e. g. a moulder, or set of machines, e. g. a timber mill, in an industrial plant. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Mill To fight; not from the Latin miles, a soldier, but from the noun mill. Grinding was anciently performed by pulversing with a stone or pounding with the hand. To mill is to beat with the fist, as persons used to beat corn with a stone. The word is Gaelic, in which there are numerous derivatives, meaning to ravage, destroy, etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Metallurgy | Crush a material through impacts or pressure. In the case of a sand, break up the aggregates that may compose it into grains and particles of basic size. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A mineral treatment plant in which crushing, wet grinding, and further treatment of ore is conducted. Also, separate components, such as ball mill, hammer mill, and rod mill. See also:ball mill; hammermill; rod mill; grinding mill; pug mill. b. A passage connecting a stope or upper level with a level below, intended to be filled with broken ore that can then be drawn out at the bottom as desired for further transportation; an opening in the floor or bottom of a stope, through which the ore or mineral is passed or thrown downward along the footwall to the level. See also:glory hol c. To fill a winze, or interior incline, with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom d. A finishing plant where blocks of stone are sawed and trimmed. e. In quarrying, usually applied to the finishing plant where blocks are sawed into slabs; all other manufacturing processes are classed as shop work f. An excavation made in the country rock, by a crosscut from the workings on a vein, to obtain waste for filling. It is left without timber so that the roof may fall in and furnish the required rock g. Can. Reducing plant where ore is concentrated and/or metals are recovered h. A single machine or a complete plant for rolling metals. i. See:cogging mill j. To grind or cut away steel or iron with a toothed or serrated face bit; also, the tool so used. (references) |
Occupations | A small, soft-steel cylinder upon surface of which a design in relief is made by rolling in contact with die. (references) |
Personal Care & Hotels | An apparatus for grinding or crushing an ingredient into a powder. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | MILL. A chisel. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
John Stuart Mill (May 20, 1806 - May 8, 1873) an English philosopher and economist, was the most influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. He was an advocate of utilitarianism, the ethical theory first proposed by his godfather Jeremy Bentham.
The life of John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill was born in his father's house in Pentonville, London, the eldest son of James Mill. Mill was educated by his father, with the advice and assistance of Jeremy Bentham and Francis Place. He was given an extremely rigorous upbringing, and was deliberately shielded from association with boys his own age. His father, a follower of Bentham and an adherent of associationism, had as his explicit aim to create a genius intellect that would carry on the cause of utilitarianism and its implementation after he and Bentham were dead.
His feats as a child were exceptional; at the age of three he was taught the Greek alphabet and long lists of Greek words with their English equivalents. By the age of eight he had read Aesop's Fables, Xenophon's Anabasis, and the whole of Herodotus, and was acquainted with Lucian, Diogenes Laërtius, Isocrates and six dialogues of Plato (see his Autobiography). He had also read a great deal of history in English.
A contemporary record of Mill's studies from eight to thirteen is published in Bain's sketch of his life. It suggests that his autobiography rather understates the amount of work done! At the age of eight he began Latin, Euclid, and algebra, and was appointed schoolmaster to the younger children of the family. His main reading was still history, but he went through all the Latin and Greek authors commonly read in the schools and universities at the time. He was not taught to compose either in Latin or in Greek, and he was never an exact scholar; it was for the subject matter that he was required to read, and by the age of ten he could read Plato and Demosthenes with ease. His father's History of India was published in 1818; immediately thereafter, about the age of twelve, John began a thorough study of the scholastic logic, at the same time reading Aristotle's logical treatises in the original. In the following year he was introduced to political economy and studied Adam Smith and Ricardo with his father--ultimately completing their classical economic view of factors of production.
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The term "mill", when used by itself, can refer to:
See also : expeller, extruder, vegoil.
- Mill (factory) - a place of business for making articles of manufacture, e.g. a Textile mill is a factory for making textiles.
- Mill (grinding) - a mill powered by wind or water, for the grinding or pulverizing of raw materials, e.g. wheat, with the help of mill stones; or an oil mill.
- Mill (currency) - a tenth of a cent / penny .....
- Mill - three in a row from the game Nine Men's Morris
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The mill is an abstract unit of US currency, equivalent to 1/1000 of a US Dollar. No coins were ever made in this denomination; the denomination is used sometimes in accounting. The term comes from the Latin mille, meaning 1,000.The term was invented by the United States Congress in 1786, and was described as the "lowest money of accompt, of which 1000 shall be equal to the federal dollar". Coinage in this denomination was legislated at that time, but never carried out.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MILL | English | Microfiche interlibrary lending system | Computing, Publishing & Graphic Arts |
Mill | German | Million | Meteorology & Standards |
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Synonyms: MillSynonyms: factory (n), grind (n), grinder (n), manufactory (n), manufacturing plant (n), pulverisation (n), pulverization (n), mill about (v), mill around (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place; inn; hostel, hostelry; hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow, khan, hospice; public house, pub, pot house, mug house; gin mill, gin palace; bar, bar room; barrel house, cabaret, chophouse; club, clubhouse; cookshop, dive, exchange; grill room, saloon, shebeen; coffee house, eating house; canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet, posada; almshouse, poorhouse, townhouse. |
Acquisition | Profit; make profit, draw profit, turn a quick profit; turn to profit, turn to account; make capital out of, make money by; obtain a return, reap the fruits of; reap an advantage, gain an advantage; turn a penny, turn an honest penny; make the pot boil, bring grist to the mill; make money, coin money, raise money; raise funds, raise the wind; fill one's pocket; (wealth). |
Contention | Wrestling, greco-roman wrestling; pugilism, boxing, fisticuffs, the manly art of self-defense; spar, mill, set-to, round, bout, event, prize fighting; quarterstaff, single stick; gladiatorship, gymnastics; jiujitsu, jujutsu, kooshti, sumo; athletics, athletic sports; games of skill. |
Gulf Lake | Lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle, slab, well, artesian well; standing water, dead water, sheet of water; fish pond, mill pond; ditch, dike, dyke, dam; reservoir. (store); alberca, barachois, hog wallow. |
Horizontality | Adjective: horizontal, level, even, plane; flat; flat as a billiard table, flat as a bowling green; alluvial; calm, calm as a mill pond; smooth, smooth as glass. |
Impulse | Fall into a rut, fall into a custom; (conform to); tread the beaten track, follow the beaten track, tread the beaten path, follow the beaten; stare super antiquas vias; move in a rut, run on in a groove, go round like a horse in a mill, go on in the old jog trot way. |
Instrument | Instrument, organ, tool, implement, utensil, machine, engine, lathe, gin, mill; air engine, caloric engine, heat engine. |
Provision | Noun: provision, supply; grist, grist for the mill; subvention; (aid); resources; (means); groceries, grocery. |
Pulverulence | Mill, arrastra, gristmill, grater, rasp, file, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, teeth, grinder, grindstone, kern, quern, koniology. |
Rotation | Adverb: head over heels, round and round, like a horse in a mill. |
Smoothness | Roller, steam roller, lawn roller, rolling pin, rolling mill; sand paper, emery paper, emery cloth, sander; flat iron, sad iron; burnisher, turpentine and beeswax; polish, shoe polish. |
Store | Reservoir, cistern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond; gasometer. |
Unimportance | Straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, brass farthing, doit, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son; cent, mill, picayune, pistareen, red cent. |
Utility | Bear fruit; (produce); bring grist to the mill; profit, remunerate; benefit; (do good). |
Workshop | Noun: workshop, workhouse, workplace, shop, place of business; manufactory, mill, plant, works, factory; cabinet, studio; office, branch office bureau, atelier. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And the whole steel mill was gay. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Trouble at th' mill. (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman) Leo was shot, Jacques Renault was strangled, the mill burned, Pete and Shelly have smoke inhalation, Catherine and Josie are missing and Nadine is in a coma from taking sleeping pills (Twin Peaks; writing credit: G. William Jones) Now that you've got your lumber mill and Frank's money, you won't come to me as you did to the jail, so I see I shall have to marry you. (Gone with the Wind; writing credit: Margaret Mitchell; Sidney Howard) | |
Lyrics | They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks (MY HOMETOWN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) Then ship a mill (Freakin It; performing artist: Will Smith) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mill Hill (1972) Hatch's Mill (1967) Mill of Secrets (1960) Treasure at the Mill (1957) By the Old Mill Scream (1953) | |
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53 year old female, employed 10 years in the spinning department of a goat-hair processing mill. Cutaneous anthrax lesion on right cheek; lesion as seen on 11th day. Credit: CDC. | ![]() | Lumber Mill at Logtown. Credit: NASA. | |
![]() | "The Weyerhaeuser Lumber Mill, on the Waterfront at Everett". In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 92. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | "The Docks of a Great Lumber Mill at Cosmopolis", Grays Harbor. In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 156. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
![]() | Hundreds of local townspeople gathered at the mill to watch the last transport of migrating fish past the dam and into their spawning grounds. The removal of the dams will make future fish transports unnecessary. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Manton Keswick's Reservoir near Redding, California. Ore loading facility, Iron Mountain. The grey area by the concrete wall is spilled ore. Ore from Iron Mountain Mine was ground up at Minnesota Flats mill and carried over the mountains to wading facility. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | Figure 27. Mill bottle invented by Dr. Hugh R. Mill of the Scottish Marine Station in 1884. This bottle was modified from the design of the Meyer bottle and fitted with a rubber disc to enhance its water-tightness. It also was fitte d with an automatic closing device and became known as the Mill self-locking water bottle. Left: descending. Right: ascending. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Figure 28. Mill bottle modified with mounting for thermometer devised by Dr. Hugh R. Mill of the Scottish Marine Station at Granton in 1884. Left: descending. Right: ascending. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
![]() | Southwest Missouri RC&D Fire Consultant Gary Rostic, left, and Redings Mill Fire Chief Andy Nimmo are pleased with the installation of a dry hydrant (in background). Dry hydrants improve fire protection for rural residents. Credit: Charlie Rahm. | ![]() | Redings Mill, Missouri, firefighters fill a portable tank used to fight rural fires. Assistance from NRCS' Southwest Missouri RC&D office helped the fire department improve its service to rural residents. Credit: Charlie Rahm. |
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| "Mill" by Iliana . Commentary: "Mill." | "Mill 01" by Nicholas Sales Commentary: "Mill." |
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| Author | Quotation |
George Herbert | The mill cannot grind with the water that's past. |
Jacob Probst | You can't go through the mill without getting dust on you. |
John Stuart Mill | The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom. |
| Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. | |
| Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. | |
| That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. | |
| What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called. | |
| The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine. | |
| The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | It is labour then which puts the greatest part of value upon land, without which it would scarcely be worth any thing: it is to that we owe the greatest part of all its useful products; for all that the straw, bran, bread, of that acre of wheat, is more worth than the product of an acre of as good land, which lies waste, is all the effect of labour: for it is not barely the plough-man's pains, the reaper's and thresher's toil, and the baker's sweat, is to be counted into the bread we eat; the labour of those who broke the oxen, who digged and wrought the iron and stones, who felled and framed the timber employed about the plough, mill, oven, or any other utensils, which are a vast number, requisite to this corn, from its being feed to be sown to its being made bread, must all be charged on the account of labour, and received as an effect of that: nature and the earth furnished only the almost worthless materials, as in themselves. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Perhaps to Hartfield, perhaps to the Abbey Mill, perhaps into his woods |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Nothing is more dangerous than this rapid, narrowed at that period and vexed by the piles of the mill of the bridge, since removed |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He spoke often to me, but the sound of his voice pierced my ears like that of a water mill, yet his words were articulate enough |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I doubt if Flying Childers ever carried a peck of corn to mill. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Among documented U.S. cases of HPS, patients with potential occupational exposures have included grain farmers, an extension livestock specialist, field biologists, and agricultural, mill, construction, utility and feedlot workers. (references) | |
Business | The Hyundai Group plans to sell this newly built cold-rolled steel mill to foreign steel makers. (references) | |
In general, a paper mill is usually able to generate electricity for its own use from the steam produced in the process. (references) | ||
Other waste materials produced in huge quantities are the ashes from thermal processes (quantity registered in 1998, about 10 mill tons). (references) | ||
Economic History | Cote D'ivoire | In late 1999, a new corn meal/corn grits mill came on line. (references) |
Mauritius | Investment in the second phase of the mill is estimated at $35 million. (references) | |
Latvia | Timber and saw mill industries also have potential for attracting foreign investment. (references) | |
Human Rights | Nepal | In the exchange eight Maoists, the four NGO employees, and a local civilian working at a nearby water mill were killed. (references) |
Travel | Chad | Chad has no cement factory or steel mill and wood is expensive. (references) |
Qatar | Dredging operations to establish an adjacent port facility for Qatar Flour Mill Company to handle wheat imports to Qatar have been completed. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Namibia | The panel found that health risks existed at the mill, and management withdrew disciplinary measures against the workers. (references) |
Dominican Republic | In March 2000, the Caribbean Sugar Producer's Consortium laid off 150 workers at its sugar mill in Consuelo in retaliation for having formed a trade union. (references) | |
Pakistan | In October 2000, Fayyaz Ahmad, a child worker in a textile mill, died as a result of injuries he sustained when his clothing became entangled in machinery. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, "I beg your pardon," and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others. The owner of a powder mill Was musing on a distant hill -- Something his mind foreboded -- When from the cloudless sky there fell A deviled human kidney! Well, The man's mill had exploded. His hat he lifted from his head; "I beg your pardon, sir," he said; "I didn't know 'twas loaded." Swatkin |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | Mill fires were lighted at the funeral pile of slavery. |
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| "Mill" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 64.54% of the time. "Mill" is used about 3,223 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 64.54% | 2,080 | 4,172 |
| Noun (proper) | 35.06% | 1,130 | 6,758 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.34% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.06% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,223 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "mill" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mill | Last name | 1,000 | 16,068 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "mill". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Milburn | Male | English | A mill stream |
| Milford | Male | English | A ford by a mill |
| Millard | Male | English | The guardian of the mill |
| Milton | Male | English | A mill town |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Settsu Oil Mill, Ltd. | South Korea | Dong Kuk Steel Mill Co. Ltd. |
| Thailand | United Flour Mill Public Company Limited | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "mill": All is grist that comes to his mill ♦ Anderson Mill ♦ ball end mill ♦ Barker's mill ♦ be all grist to one's mill ♦ be put through the mill ♦ billet mill ♦ Blairs Mill ♦ blooming mill ♦ Bonnots Mill ♦ Boones Mill ♦ boring mill ♦ bring grist to smb.'s mill ♦ bring the grist to the mill ♦ Byrnes Mill ♦ Cane mill ♦ cedar Mill ♦ Chilian mill ♦ churn oil mill ♦ Cider mill ♦ clay mill ♦ coal pulverising mill ♦ coffee mill ♦ cogging mill ♦ cotton mill ♦ cotton mill fever ♦ Current mill ♦ Cylinder mill ♦ Cypress Mill ♦ double mill ♦ Edge mill ♦ Eureka Mill ♦ Falls Mill ♦ Fanning mill ♦ Flatting mill ♦ Flax mill ♦ Flint mill ♦ flour mill ♦ Fort Mill ♦ Fulling mill ♦ gang mill ♦ gastric mill ♦ Gayle Mill ♦ Gig mill ♦ gin mill ♦ go round like a horse in a mill ♦ go through the mill ♦ grape mill ♦ Gray mill ♦ Gray mill or millet ♦ Grinding mill ♦ grist to the mill ♦ hammer mill ♦ hand mill ♦ Holmes Mill ♦ it's all grist to the mill ♦ James Mill ♦ John Mill ♦ John Stuart Mill ♦ Lancaster Mill ♦ Lapidary's mill ♦ Lead mill ♦ like a horse in a mill ♦ lumber mill ♦ Milford Mill ♦ mill about ♦ mill agent ♦ mill around ♦ mill bar ♦ mill board ♦ mill cake ♦ mill cinder ♦ Mill City ♦ Mill Creek ♦ mill fever ♦ Mill Hall ♦ mill hand ♦ mill head ♦ mill hole ♦ mill machine ♦ Mill Neck ♦ mill owner ♦ mill pick ♦ mill pond ♦ mill race ♦ mill roll ♦ Mill Run ♦ mill scale ♦ Mill Shoals ♦ Mill Spring ♦ mill star ♦ mill stream ♦ mill tail ♦ mill to round ♦ mill tooth ♦ Mill Valley ♦ Mill Village ♦ mill wheel ♦ mill with a cutter ♦ mill work ♦ mill worker. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mill": Mill-bern, mill-bills, mill-buildings, Mill-cake, mill-cottages, mill-cut, mill-dam, mill-designing, mill-employed, mill-girl, mill-hand, mill-hands, mill-house, mill-hut, mill-manager, mill-master, mill-masters, mill-owner, mill-owners, mill-owning, mill-oxen, mill-pond, mill-ponds, mill-race, mill-races, mill-scale, mill-school, mill-servant, Mill-sixpence, mill-stone, mill-stones, mill-stream, mill-stream-and, mill-type, mill-wall, mill-wheel, mill-wheels, mill-worker, mill-workers, mill-wrights, mill-yard, mill-yuns. | |
Ending with "mill": paper-mill, water-mill. | |
Containing "mill": cotton-mill-owner. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
mill | 1,818 | old mill | 240 |
grain mill | 1,428 | puppy mill | 237 |
general mill | 1,048 | grist mill | 233 |
mill valley ca | 759 | tread mill | 227 |
olan mill | 510 | pepper mill | 217 |
mill fleet farm | 464 | katy mall mill | 209 |
owings mill md | 419 | ontario mill mall | 206 |
mill pride | 415 | donna mill | 203 |
gurnee mill | 352 | john stuart mill | 191 |
fort mill south carolina | 337 | franklin mill mall | 191 |
arundel mill | 315 | grapevine mill | 184 |
ontario mill | 314 | brown mill nj | 180 |
potomac mill | 292 | sawgrass mill | 176 |
opry mill | 291 | wind mill | 176 |
grapevine mill mall | 291 | mill college | 174 |
mill store | 281 | stephanie mill | 168 |
mill creek | 281 | arizona mill | 166 |
arundel mill mall | 279 | paper mill | 164 |
heather mill | 265 | mill hill | 160 |
concord mill | 254 | franklin mill | 157 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "mill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mulli (cylinder, grinder), boks (box, boxing, pugilism), burg (cage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, gaol, jail, limbo, lockup, Nick, pen, penitentiary, poky, prison, prison house, quod, stir), dhëmbëzoj (Dent, engrail, indent, jag, notch, pink, skin over, tooth), fabrikë (factory, manufactory, plant), fabrikoj (fabricate, machinate, make up, manufacture, produce), frezoj, luftim me grushte, bluaj (Bray, crush, digest, flour, grind, turn over), petëzoj (laminate, roll), vij rrotull (circle, compass, court, fly around, gallivant, make love, prowl, putter, spark, woo), presë (drop hammer, edge, press), prodhoj (bear, deliver, do, elaborate, fabricate, generate, make, manufacture, produce, yield), rrah (aim, assess, beat, beat up, castigate, cob, flail, flap, flicker, give a good hiding, give in, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay into, lick, Pat, thrash, thresh, trounce, wallop, whop), rrotullohem (bowl along, circle, revolve, slew, turn, turn about, turn over, wheel), thyej (bend, break, break to pieces, cash, change, crack up, demolish, fold, fracture, hurt, mammock, maul, refract, rupture, shatter, shiver, sliver, smash, snap, Spall, split, stamp, transgress, worst, wreck), thyese, uzinë (factory, plant, works), vërtitem (circle, dance, flitter, flutter, gyrate, loiter, mooch, move, move about, Potter, revolve, roll, turn, turn round, wheel, whirl round), përpunoj (cast, design, develop, elaborate, evolve, process, recondition, refine, rehash, treat, work out). (various references) | |
Arabic | معمل (factory, plant, workshop), مطحنة (grindery), مصنع (factory, manufactory, plant, work, workshop), مر بتجارب صعبة, تحرك دائريا, تجمهر (assemble, congregate, crowding, grouping, mob, swarm, throng), سك النقود, طحن (crush, flour, grin, grind, grinding, grist, powder, pulverize), طاحونة (grinder), المل وحدة نقدية, السكاكة آلة لضرب النقود. (various references) | |
Basque | errota. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | валцувам (fold), преса (press, presser, print, winepress), боксирам се, боксов мач, завод (factory, plant, shop, works), машина (engine, machine), мелница (flourmill, grinder, gristmill), мелничка, меля (grind, jaw, mince), правя обрез, валцов стан (rolling mill, train), смилам (digest, grind, levigate), валям (roll, thicken, tumble about), воденица (gizzard, gristmill, water mill), кръжа (circle, hover, mill about), трошачка (breaker, cracker, crackers, crusher, disintegrator, pulverizer), фабрика (factory, hacienda, manufactory, plant, shop, works), фреза (cutter), фрезовам, хилядна част от долара, разбивам (agitate, beat, beat up, blank, blast, blight, break, break down, break in pieces, break to pieces, burst open, dash, deflate, disrupt, hack, kick in, overwhelm, pry open, scatter, shatter, smash, smash in, smash up, split off, stamp, whip, whip up, wreck), натрошавам (break to pieces, splinter). (various references) | |
Chinese | 礱 (grind), 磑 , 磨房 (Mills). (various references) | |
Czech | mlít (grind, spout), mlýnek (noughts and crosses), mlýn (ruck, scrimmage, scrum), válcovna, válcovat (roll), továrna (factory, plant), frézovat. (various references) | |
Danish | moelleri (flour-mill), moelle (flour-mill), mixer, valseværk, træindustri, træbearbejdningsmaskine (timber working machine, wood-working machine, woodworking machinery), kværn (grinder), knusning (bruise, check, cracking, crushing, graded size, granulation, grind, grinding, pressure vent, surface crack, surface vent, treading), blandemaskine (mixer, portioning machine). (various references) | |
Dutch | molen (grinder). (various references) | |
Esperanto | muelejo, uzino (factory). (various references) | |
Farsi | ماشین (Apparatus, Engine, Gin, Machine, Mechanism, Motor, Plant), کنگره دارکردن (Jag), کارخانه (Factory, Firm, Housework, Plant, Studio), اسیاب کردن (Grind, Grit), اسیاب . (various references) | |
Finnish | tehdas (factory, works), mylly (flour-mill), jauhaa (grind, pulverize). (various references) | |
French | usine, moulin, minoterie, fabrique, broyer. (various references) | |
German | Mühle (boneshaker, grinder, jalopy, millhouse, treadmill), Fabrik (factory, manufactory, plant). (various references) | |
Greek | μύλος (gristmill), εργοστάσιο (factory, manufactory, plant, works), αλέθω (grind). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מגרסה (crusher, grinding mill), מטחנה (grinding mill, mincing machine), לחבוט (bang, beat off, flail, knock, pound, smack, strike down, stroke, swat, swipe, thrash, thrust down, thump, thwack), לכרסם (chew, gnaw, nibble), לדוש (crush, flail, pound, thrash, thresh), לטחון (grind, pulverize), תחנת רוח, בית חרושת (factory, plant), טחנה, רחים (grindstones, hand mill, millstones). (various references) | |
Hungarian | malom (grist-mill), gyár (factory, house, manufacturing plant, plant, works, -works), üzem (factory, manufactory, plant, run, smooth working, works, -works), hirig (punch-up, roughhouse, scuffle), daráló (grinder, grinding, hand mill, kibbler), bunyó (aggro, fight, fisticuffs, free for all, hammering, punch-up, thrashing), őrlő (grinding). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menggiling (flatten, grind, roll), penggilingan (milling), pabrik (factory), gilingan. (various references) | |
Italian | mulino (flour-mill), macinare (grind, pulverize). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 製造所 (factory, manufactory, works), 粉屋 (flour dealer), 工場 (factory, plant, workshop), 工場 (factory, plant, workshop). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せいぞうしょ (factory, manufactory, works), せいぞうじょ (factory, manufactory, works), こなや (flour dealer), こうば (factory, plant, workshop), こうじょう (advancement, bank of a large river, code of morals, colloid, compromise, concession, constancy, elevation, factory, favour, friendship, hospitality, improvement, intimacy, kindness, moral principles, plant, progress, rise, ruined castle, siege, speech, vocal message, workshop). (various references) | |
Korean | 선반 (lathe, ledge, Mills, Rack, shelf, Shelves). (various references) | |
Manx | mwyllin [f] (factory), mwyllin (factory). (various references) | |
Occitan | molin, mòler (crush, grind). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | illmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | moinho (water-mill), usina (factory, plant), triturar (basil, bray, break, bruise, champ, crunch, crush, disintegrate, lead on, mash, masticate, pound, powder, scrunch, spall, talcum, triturate). (various references) | |
Romanian | moarã (gristmill), merge în cerc, mãcina (Bray, bruise, crush, eat, fester, flour, grain, grind), sfãrâma (batter, burst, crack, crackle, crunch, destroy, disrupt, fritter, granulate, grind, knap, ruin, shatter, shiver, smash, split), se învârti (circumgyrate, go round, gyrate, move, reel, revolve, run, spin, spin round, swim, swirl, turn, twirl, wind), râşniţã (grinder), produce (afford, arise, bear, bring, bring about, bring forth, cause, create, deliver, engender, fabricate, generate, give, give forth, happen, machine, make, manufacture, operate, produce, raise, shape, yield), presã (newspapers, press, presser), zimţa (jag), uzinã (factory, industry, machine, manufactory, plant, work), şlefui (abrade, file, furbish, grind, lap, rough, smooth), laminor (rolling mill), lamina (batter, flatten, foliate, roll), frezã (cutter, haircut, Miller, milling machine), freza (face), filaturã (spinning mill, spinning-facto), fabricã (factory, industry, manufactory, plant, work, works). (various references) | |
Russian | молоть;фрезеровать фабрика;мельница, дробить (atomize, comminute, crash, granulate, kibble, smash, spalls), измельчать (pulverize), пилить (saw, sawed), перемолоть (grind), пресс (masher, press, squeezer, wringer), прокатный стан (rolling, rolling mill, rolling-mill), прокатывать, завод (enterprise, factory, plant, works), двигаться кругом (mill about), молоть (grind), стан (camp, figure), мять (crease, crumple, crush, rumple), валять, выделывать, топчак (treadmill), тысячная часть доллара, фабрика (factory, works), фреза (cutter, milling cutter), фрезер (cutter), фрезеровать (hobbed), мельница (grinder). (various references) | |
Scottish | muileann (a mill). (various references) | |
Sepedi | tahilo (grain mill). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mlin, mleti (gring), vrveti (shoal, swarm, teem), vodenica (water mill), samleti (flour, grind), gurati se (scrounge, throng), glodati (gnaw, knap, nibble), glodalica (milling cutter), fabrika (factory, manufactory, plant, works). (various references) | |
Shona | chigayo. (various references) | |
Spanish | molino (grinder), moler (grind, pound, pulverize). (various references) | |
Swazi | úm-shíni. (various references) | |
Swedish | kvarn (grinder), mala (crush, grind, mince, work), krossa (Bray, break, bruise, crash, crunch, crush, dash, flatten, fracture, pulverize, quash, scotch, scrunch, shatter, smash, squelch, steamroller). (various references) | |
Thai | เครื่องบดกาแฟ (coffee mill). (various references) | |
Turkish | mengene (clamp, cramp, crampiron, crampon, crampoon, press, vice, vise), tırtıklamak, imalathane (factory, works, workshop), fabrika (factory, hacienda, plant, works, workshop), doların binde biri, değirmen (grinder), öğütmek (crush, flour, grain, granulate, grind, triturate), çentiklemek (notch, score), çırpmak (beat, beat up, churn, clap, cream, fold, scramble, shake, shake up, stir up, whip, whip up, whisk). (various references) | |
Turkmen | haraz, degirmen. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фрезерувати, фреза (cutter), фабрика (factory, manufactory, works), молотися (grind), молоти (grind), млин, прес (press, presser, wring), подрібнювати (atomize, beetle, grain, granulate, grind up, parcel). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | máy xay (decorticator), máy nghiền (breaker, cracker, crusher, disintegrator, masticator, pounder, triturator), máy cán xưởng, sự tập luyện gian khổ, nhà máy xay, nỗi cực khổ, cối xay (quern), công việc cực nhọc (slavery, toil). (various references) | |
Welsh | melin, ffatri (factory), ffactri (factory). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | mola, molae, molam, molas. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | molina, molinum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 24, Verse 41 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Duo alhqousai en tw mulwni mia paralambanetai kai mia afietai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Duae molentes in mola una adsumetur et una relinquetur |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Twegen beoð æt cweorne grindende. an beoð numen & oþer byð lefed . Twegen beoð on bedde. an byð genymen. & oþer byð lefed. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Twey wymmen schulen be gryndynge in o queerne, oon schal be takun, and `the tother left; tweyn in a bedde, `the toon schal be takun, and the tother left. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Two shalbe gryndinge at ye myll: ye oue shalbe receaved and ye other shalbe refused. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Two women will be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Two women will be crushing grain; one is taken, and one let go. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 24, Verse 41 |
| Cebuano | Duha ka babaye magagaling diha sa ligsanan; usa kuhaon ug usa mabiyaan. |
| Croatian | Dvije æe mljeti u mlinu: jedna æe se uzeti, druga ostaviti." |
| Danish | To Kvinder skulle male på Kværnen; den ene tages med, og den anden lades tilbage. |
| Dutch | Er zullen twee vrouwen malen in den molen, de ene zal aangenomen, en de andere zal verlaten worden. |
| Finnish | Kaksi naista on jauhamassa käsikivillä; toinen korjataan talteen, ja toinen jätetään. |
| French | de deux femmes qui moudront à la meule, l`une sera prise et l`autre laissée. |
| German | Zwei werden mahlen auf der Mühle; eine wird angenommen, und die andere wird verlassen werden. |
| Hungarian | Két asszony õröl a malomban; az egyik felvétetik, a másik ott hagyatik. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Dua wanita sedang menggiling gandum: Seorang akan dibawa, dan seorang lagi ditinggalkan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan lagi ada dua orang perempuan mengisar pada kisaran, itu pun seorang akan dibawa, dan seorang ditinggalkan. |
| Italian | Due donne macineranno alla mola: una sarà presa e l'altra lasciata. |
| Manx Gaelic | Bee daa ven blieh ec y wyllin, yn derrey yeh goit, as y jeh elley faagit. |
| Maori | Tokorua wahine e huri ana i te mira; kotahi e tangohia, kotahi e waiho. |
| Norwegian | To kvinner skal male på kvernen; en blir tatt med, og en blir latt tilbake. |
| Portuguese | estando duas mulheres a trabalhar no moinho, será levada uma e deixada a outra. |
| Rumanian | Din douq femei cari vor mqcina la moarq, una va fi luatq wi alta va fi lqsatq. |
| Russian | ДЧЕ НЕМАЭЙЕ Ч ЦЕТОПЧБИ: ПДОБ ВЕТЕФУС, Б ДТХЗБС ПУФБЧМСЕФУС. |
| Shuar | Núnisan Jimiará nuwa shana nekeak pujuttawai. Chikichik junaktiatui chikichcha ikiunkittiawai' Tímiayi. |
| Spanish | Dos mujeres estarán moliendo en un molino; la una será tomada, y la otra dejada. |
| Swahili | Kina mama wawili watakuwa wanasaga nafaka, mmoja atachukuliwa na mwingine ataachwa. |
| Swedish | Två kvinnor skola mala på samma kvarn; en skall bliva upptagen, och en skall lämnas kvar. |
| Uma | Rodua tobine to motongke' momanyu, hadua ra'ala', to hadua rapalahii. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mill": millable, millage, millages, millcake, millcakes, milldam, milldams, mille, milled, millefiori, millefioris, millefleur, millefleurs, millenarian, millenarianism, millenarianisms, millenarians, millenaries, millenary, millennia, millennial, millennialism, millennialisms, millennialist, millennialists, millennium, millenniums, milleped, millepeds, miller, millerite, millerites, millers, milles, millesimal, millesimally, millesimals, millet, millets, milliampere, milliamperes, milliard, milliards, milliare, milliares, milliaries, milliary, millibar, millibars, millicurie, millicuries. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "mill": gristmill, minimill, sawmill, treadmill, windmill. (additional references) | |
Words containing "mill": armilla, armillae, armillas, bimillenaries, bimillenary, bimillennial, bimillennials, gristmills, mammilla, mammillae, mammillary, mammillated, minimills, multimillennial, multimillion, multimillionaire, multimillionaires, multimillions, permillage, permillages, postmillenarian, postmillenarianism, postmillenarianisms, postmillenarians, postmillennial, postmillennialism, postmillennialisms, postmillennialist, postmillennialists, premillenarian, premillenarianism, premillenarianisms, premillenarians, premillennial, premillennialism, premillennialisms, premillennialist, premillennialists, premillennially, ramillie, ramillies, sawmills, sinsemilla, sinsemillas, submillimeter, supermillionaire, supermillionaires, treadmills, unmilled, vermillion, vermillions. (additional references) | |
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"Mill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: iml, Imsl, maill, Ma'lul, meill, Meillo, mel, mell, Melli, mhil, miel, miell, Milc, milf, Mili, milla, millo, milly, Miln, milo, Milp, milq, milz, mirl, misl, Mlib, myall, myl, myll, Myln, myol, mytl, Omell. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mill" (pronounced mi"l) |
| 3 | m i" l | Mil, Mille. |
| 2 | -i" l | bill, Brazil, brill, chill, dill, distil, distill, drill, Fil, fill, frill, fulfill, Gill, goodwill, grill, grille, Hill, ill, spill, still, swill, instill, Jill, kill, krill, nil, nill, pill, prill, quill, refill, rill, Shill, shrill, sill, skill, thill, thrill, til, till, trill, twill, until, uphill, will, zill. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-l-m" | |
-1 letter: ill, mil. | |
-2 letters: li, mi. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-l-m" | |
+1 letter: maill, mille, mills. | |
+2 letters: allium, illume, limply, limuli, maills, mallei, micell, mildly, milled, miller, milles, millet, mollie, slimly. | |
+3 letters: alliums, armilla, balmily, chillum, filmily, gallium, illumed, illumes, laminal, liminal, limulus, luminal, lumpily, maillot, malling, manilla, manille, manlily, maxilla, melilot, melling, micella, micelle, micells, milfoil, milkily, millage, milldam, millers, millets, millier, millime, milline, milling, million, millrun, misally, misbill, miscall, mollies, mollify, mouille, mudsill, mullein, mulling, mullion, mullite, pallium, plimsol, sawmill, slimily, timolol. | |
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