Brazilian Portugese Meaning of mill

moinho

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Definitions and Meaning of mill in English

Wordnet

mill (n)

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

Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)

English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)

machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing

the act of grinding to a powder or dust

Wordnet

mill (v)

move about in a confused manner

grind with a mill

produce a ridge around the edge of

roll out (metal) with a rolling machine

Webster

mill (n.)

A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.

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.

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.

A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.

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.

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.

A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.

An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.

A passage underground through which ore is shot.

A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.

A pugilistic.

To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.

To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.

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.

To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.

To beat with the fists.

To roll into bars, as steel.

Short for Treadmill.

The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw.

Webster

mill (v. i.)

To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.

To undergo hulling, as maize.

To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain.

To swim suddenly in a new direction; -- said of whales.

To take part in a mill; to box.

Webster

mill (v. t.)

To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.

To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle.

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a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing, Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuar

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