Dictionary Entry
mill
mill is a 4-letter English word with 27 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 9 · 27 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
- 2noun
A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.
- 3noun
A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.
- 4noun
A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
- 5noun
A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.
- 6noun
A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.
- 7noun
A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
- 8noun
An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
- 9noun
A passage underground through which ore is shot.
- 10noun
A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.
- 11noun
A pugilistic.
- 12noun
To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
- 13noun
To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
- 14noun
To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.
- 15noun
To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
- 16noun
To beat with the fists.
- 17noun
To roll into bars, as steel.
- 18intransitive verb
To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
- 19noun
the act of grinding to a powder or dust
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- 20noun
a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
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- 21noun
machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
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- 22noun
English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)
- 23noun
Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)
- 24verb
grind with a mill
"mill grain"
- 25verb
roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
- 26verb
produce a ridge around the edge of
"mill a coin"
- 27verb
move about in a confused manner
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