mill
[noun]
Synonyms:
- factory, foundry, plant, works
- grinder, crusher
[verb]
Synonyms:
- grind, crush, grate, pound, powder
- swarm, crowd, throng

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English Thesaurus: factory, plant, facility, works, a steelworks/ironworks/brickworks/a chemical/cement works/a printing works, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

Mill, John Stuart
(1806–73) a British philosopher and economist who influenced modern ideas about politics and economics. He helped to develop the idea of utilitarianism (=the principle that actions are good if they generally bring happiness, and bad if they do not), and in his book On Liberty, he said that people should be free to do what they want so long as they did not harm other people.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

I. mill¹ /mɪl/ noun [countable]
[Sense 1-5: Language: Old English; Origin: mylen, from Late Latin molina, from Latin mola 'mill, millstone']
[Sense 6: Date: 1700-1800; Language: Latin; Origin: mille 'thousand']
[Sense 7: Date: 1900-2000; Origin: million]

1. GRAIN a building containing a large machine for crushing grain into flour

2. COTTON/CLOTH/STEEL a factory that produces materials such as cotton, cloth, or steel
cotton/steel/paper etc mill
an old Victorian cotton mill

3. coffee/pepper mill a small machine for crushing coffee or pepper

4. go through the mill to go through a time when you experience a lot of difficulties and problems:
He’s really been through the mill recently.

5. put somebody through the mill to make someone answer a lot of difficult questions or do a lot of difficult things in order to test them:
It was a three-day course and they really put us through the mill.

6. MONEY American English a unit of money equal to 1/10 of a cent, used in setting taxes and for other financial purposes

7. MILLION spoken a million:
Are you saying they paid a quarter of a mill for that house?
⇒ run-of-the-mill, ⇒ (all) grist to the mill at grist

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. mill² verb [transitive]

1. to crush grain, pepper etc in a mill:
All our flours are milled using traditional methods.
Add some freshly milled black pepper.

2. to press, roll, or shape metal in a machine
mill around/about (something) phrasal verb informal
if a lot of people mill around, they move around a place in different directions without any particular purpose:
Crowds of students were milling around in the street.
There were a lot of people milling around the entrance.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

mill
noun
I. for making flour
ADJ. corn, flour | water (also watermill)
VERB + MILL operate, work | convert, restore living in a converted watermill
drive, power The river was harnessed to drive many mills.
MILL + VERB grind sth, work sth The mill can be seen grinding corn.
MILL + NOUN house | wheel

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

mill
II. factory
ADJ. cotton, paper, steel, textile, woollen
VERB + MILL operate, own, run | work in
MILL + VERB manufacture sth, produce sth
MILL + NOUN town a northern mill town
buildings

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

factory a building or group of buildings in which goods are produced in large quantities, using machines:
She works in a chocolate factory.
a clothing factory
plant a large factory where cars, chemicals, or energy is produced:
Local residents are protesting about the new nuclear power plant.
a car plant
a nuclear power plant
facility a factory. Facility is often used instead of factory in business English:
The new production facility is one of the most up-to-date in the area.
works used in the following compounds to describe a factory that produces a particular thing: a steelworks/ironworks/brickworks/a chemical/cement works/a printing works
mill a factory that produces paper, cotton, or cloth:
a paper mill
The textile mill has been converted into luxury flats.
shipyard a place where ships are built or repaired:
The vessel was built in the Kobe shipyard.
foundry a factory where metal is made into things using moulds:
Mandela’s statue was cast here in a local foundry.
sweatshop disapproving a small factory where people work hard in bad conditions for very little money:
The company was fined for selling goods produced in sweatshops.

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

mill
̈ɪmɪl
See: run-of-the-mill , through the mill

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