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

1. noun. A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. 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.
7. noun. A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
8. noun. An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
9. noun. A passage underground through which ore is shot.
10. noun. A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.
11. noun. A pugilistic.
12. noun. To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
13. noun. To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
14. noun. 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.
15. noun. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
16. noun. To beat with the fists.
17. noun. To roll into bars, as steel.
18. intransitive verb. To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
19. noun. the act of grinding to a powder or dust

    Synonyms: grind, pulverisation, pulverization

20. noun. a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing

    Synonyms: factory, manufactory

21. noun. machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing

    Synonyms: grinder

22. noun. English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)
23. noun. Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)
24. verb. grind with a mill

    "mill grain"

25. verb. roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
26. verb. produce a ridge around the edge of

    "mill a coin"

27. verb. move about in a confused manner

Synonyms

grind, pulverisation, pulverization, factory, manufactory, grinder

Common word forms

mills, milled, miller, milles, millful, milling, millable

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