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enPR: mĭl, IPA(key): /mɪl/ (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): [mɪɫ] (l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): [mɪo̯], [mɪʊ̯] Rhymes: -ɪl Homophone: mil From Middle English mylne, mille, from Old English mylen, from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu (“mill”), from Late Latin molīna, molīnum, molīnus (“mill”), from Latin molō (“grind, mill”, verb), closely allied to Proto-Germanic *muljaną (“to crush, grind”) (see English millstone). Perhaps cognate with Milne (a surname). Doublet of moline and moulin. mill (plural mills) A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. Hyponym: pepper mill The building housing such a grinding apparatus. Hyponyms: flour mill, grist mill, windmill 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. A machine for grinding and polishing. A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw. A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc. Hyponyms: paper mill, steel mill, textile mill A building housing such a plant. (figurative) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality. divorce mill; puppy mill (figurative, derogatory) An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised (informal) An engine. (informal) A boxing match, fistfight. (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper. (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot. A milling cutter. (historical) A prison treadmill. (World War I– World War II, US military slang) A military prison, either guardhouse or post prison. (World War I– World War II military slang) A delousing station, cootie mill. (CB radio slang) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received. miln (obsolete) (plant, building): factory, works Sranan Tongo: miri → Hindi: मिल (mil) mill (third-person singular simple present mills, present participle milling, simple past and past participle milled) (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine. (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine. (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin). (intransitive, followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion. (transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around. (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater. (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction. (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth. (transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars. (transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning. (intransitive) To undergo hulling. (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box. (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To commit burglary. (move about in an aimless fashion): roam, wander Ultimately from Latin millesimum. mill (plural mills) An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent. One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax. (one thousandth part): permille, ‰, ₥ (one thousandth part): percent basis point millage per mill mill (plural mill) (informal) Alternative form of mil (“million”) (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) mill (plural mills) A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games. Back-formation from millstone, name of a Magic: The Gathering card with this effect (first printed 1994). Mill (in the sense of "a strategy") mill (third-person singular simple present mills, present participle milling, simple past and past participle milled) (transitive, collectible card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile. (transitive, Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand. (Hearthstone): burn self-mill mill (countable and uncountable, plural mills) (collectible card games) Discarding a card from one's deck. (collectible card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck. Mill Rogue chapter MILL, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. chapter MILL, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. mill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Mill in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911) Possibly from Proto-Albanian *meila (“fastening (of a knife)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to attach, fasten”). mill m (plural mille, definite milli, definite plural millet) sheath Inherited from Latin milium. IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmiʎ] Rhymes: -iʎ mill m (plural mills) millet mill del sol “mill” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. chapter MILL, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024 “mill” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. “mill” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. IPA(key): [mʲiːlʲ], [mʲɪlʲ] From Old Irish millid (“spoils, ruins, destroys”). mill (present analytic milleann, future analytic millfidh, verbal noun milleadh, past participle millte) (transitive, intransitive) spoil; mar, ruin ravish mill f (genitive singular mille, nominative plural milleanna) Alternative form of meill (“flabby, loose, skin; blubber lip; unshapely mouth”) (botany) pendant bud or flower Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) chapter MILL, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), chapter MILLID, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) chapter MILL, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm chapter MILL, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024 IPA(key): /mɪl/ From Old Irish millid (“spoils, ruins, destroys”). Cognate with Irish mill and Scottish Gaelic mill. mill (past vill, future independent millee, verbal noun milley, past participle millit) destroy, ruin spoil, tarnish (as vision) blur disfigure corrupt mess, tumble, rustle Ny mill m'olt. ― Don't tumble my hair. From Old Irish mil, from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Irish mil, Scottish Gaelic mil, Latin mel, Ancient Greek μέλι (méli). Akin to millish and blass. mill m (genitive singular molley, plural millyn) honey Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), chapter MIL, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language IPA(key): /miːʎ/ From Old Irish millid (“spoils, ruins, destroys”). mill (past mhill, future millidh, verbal noun milleadh, past participle millte) destroy, spoil, ruin mill m inflection of meall: genitive singular plural Edward Dwelly (1911) chapter MILL, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[9], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), chapter MILLID, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language mil mill (anatomy) eye mill Alternative form of mil. State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Turubul Body Parts.