[
US
/ˈmɪɫ/
]
[ UK /mˈɪl/ ]
[ UK /mˈɪl/ ]
VERB
-
grind with a mill
mill grain - roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
-
produce a ridge around the edge of
mill a coin - move about in a confused manner
NOUN
- a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
How To Use mill In A Sentence
- You think Spielberg would only have a rattletrap third-rate spaceship like the Millennium Falcon to ensure his survival? Does George Lucas think the world will end in 2012?
- A few billion of that new economic rescue plan will go to weatherize one million homes a year.
- A little bit overcast is actually a lot better than a sunny sky for us out there," Miller said. NHL players excited to go outdoors in Buffalo's chill
- The total sales of the company didn't amount to more than a few million dollars.
- Our interneuronal connections in our brain, for example, process information at chemical signaling speeds of a few hundred feet per second, compared to a billion feet per second for electronics - electronics is a million times faster.
- According to the EPA, fish at the top of the aquatic food chain bioaccumulate methylmercury to a level approximately 1 million to 10 million times greater than dissolved concentrations found in surrounding waters. Field and Stream Report: The Truth about Mercury and the Fish You Eat
- One can hardly believe that this paper mill was started from scratch only a few years ago.
- If we got into Ceram (and got out again), the doctor would reduce the whole affair to a few tables of anthropological measurements, a few more hampers of birds, beasts, and native rubbish in the hold, and a score of paragraphs couched in the evaporated, millimetric terms of science. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
- You know, I always joked I had a million acquaintances and only a couple of close friends.
- They have kept it alive in the past and continue to make it plausible for millions of people today.