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- Dictionarymill/mɪl/
noun
- 1. a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour. Similar
- 2. a factory fitted with machinery for a particular manufacturing process: "a steel mill"
verb
- 1. grind (something) in a mill: "hard wheats are easily milled into white flour"
- 2. cut or shape (metal) with a rotating tool: "in the machine shop we mill and grind the castings"
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a building with machinery for crushing grain into flour. A mill is also a factory where a particular materials or substances are processed: a paper / steel mill. A mill is also a device for crushing a solid substance into powder: a coffee / pepper mill. (Definition of mill from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
The meaning of MILL is a building provided with machinery for processing and especially for grinding grain into flour. How to use mill in a sentence.
a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, or textiles. a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour and other cereal products. a machine for grinding, crushing, or pulverizing any solid substance: a coffee mill.
A mill is a factory used for making and processing materials such as steel, wool, or cotton. ...a steel mill. ...a textile mill. Synonyms: factory, works, shop, plant More Synonyms of mill. 4. verb. To mill something such as wheat or pepper means to grind it in a mill. They mill 1000 tonnes of flour a day in every Australian state. [VERB noun]
n. 1. a. A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour or meal. b. A device or mechanism that grinds grain. 2. a. A building or farm equipped with machinery that presses or grinds fruit to extract the juice: a cider mill. b. A device or machine used to extract juice from fruit. 3.
Definition of mill noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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.
