Word Finder - mill

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A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.

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Pepper has a stronger flavor when it is ground straight from a mill.

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The building housing such a grinding apparatus.

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My grandfather worked in a mill.

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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.

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a cider mill; a cane mill

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A machine for grinding and polishing.

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a lapidary mill

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

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A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.

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a steel mill

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A building housing such a plant.

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An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.

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An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised

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An engine.

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A boxing match, fistfight.

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(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.

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

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A passage underground through which ore is shot.

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A milling cutter.

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A treadmill.

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A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.

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To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.

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to mill flour

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To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.

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To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).

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(followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.

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I didn't have much to do, so I just milled around the town looking at the shops.

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To cause to mill, or circle around.

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to mill cattle

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(of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.

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(of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.

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To beat; to pound.

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

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To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.

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To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.

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To undergo hulling.

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This maize mills well.

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To take part in a fistfight; to box.

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

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(thieves' cant) To commit burglary.

But again of course Mill is not named.

It was a picture of a mill, near a beautiful brook.

She stared at him, but his attention was on the mill again.

They spent the next fifteen minutes exploring the inside of the mill, and then they went out to the bridge.

Not far from the mill there was an old house, with many trees growing close to it.

The first mill was built in 1878, and the village was named from the French word claquet (sound of the mill).

Mill calculated the position of mean sphere-level at about Io,000 ft.

His extreme sensitiveness and hatred of pain constrained Mill to hold that, if a good God exists, he cannot possess infinite power.

Galena and other lead ores are abundant in veins in the limestone, but they are now only worked on a large scale at Mill Close, near Winster; calamine, zinc blende, barytes, calcite and fluor-spar are common.

A few colonists sent out by the Susque hanna Company settled at Mill Creek near the present site of 1 In place of De Forest Richards, deceased.

A contemporary record of Mill's studies from eight to thirteen is published in Bain's sketch of his life.

Not unnaturally the training which the younger Mill received has aroused amazement and criticism; and it is reasonable to doubt whether the material knowledge which he retained in the result was as valuable to him as his father imagined.

It was an inevitable result of such an education that Mill acquired many of his father's speculative opinions, and his father's way of defending them.

No mystic ever worked with warmer zeal than Mill.

Mill expressly says that his childhood was not unhappy.

Mill complains that his father often required more than could be expected of him, but his tasks were not so severe as to prevent him from growing up a healthy and high-spirited boy, though he was not constitutionally robust, and his pursuits were so different from those of other boys of the same age.

From May 1820 till July 1821 Mill was in France in the family of Sir Samuel Bentham, brother of Jeremy Bentham.

Mill's work at the India House, which was henceforth his livelihood, did, not come before the public; hence some have scouted his political writings as the work of an abstract philosopher, entirely unacquainted with affairs.

For twenty years, from 1836 (when his father died) to 1856, Mill had charge of the Company's relations with the native states, and in 1856 he became chief of the office with a salary of £2000.

About the time of his entering the India House Mill read Dumont's exposition of Bentham's doctrines in the Traite de Legislation, which made a lasting impression upon him.

His father was reserved, undemonstrative even to the pitch of chilling sternness, and among young Mill's comrades contempt of feeling was almost a watchword.

It is a proof of the dominating force of his father's character that it cost the younger Mill such an effort to shake off his stern creed about poetry and personal emotion.

Like Plato, the elder Mill would have put poets under ban as enemies of truth, and he subordinated private to public affections.

These doctrines the younger Mill now felt himself forced in reason to abandon.

The first sketch of Mill's political philosophy appeared in a series of contributions to the Examiner in the autumn of 1830 entitled "Prospects in France."

How little this criticism was justified may be seen from the fact that Mill's inductive logic was the direct result of his aspirations after political stability as determined by the dominion of the wisest (Examiner letters).

Mill remarks that the uncertainty hanging over the very elements of moral and social philosophy proves that the means of arriving at the truth in those sciences are not yet properly understood.

By 1831 the period of depression had passed; Mill's enthusiasm for humanity had been thoroughly reawakened, and had taken the definite shape of an aspiration to supply an unimpeachable method of search for conclusions in moral and social science.

Be this as it may, enthusiastic as he was for a new logic that might give certainty to moral and social conclusions, Mill was no less resolute that the new logic should stand in no antagonism to the old.

In his Westminster review of Whately's Logic in 1828 (invaluable to all students of the genesis of Mill's logic) he appears, curiously enough, as an ardent and brilliant champion of the syllogistic logic against highfliers such as the Scottish philosophers who talk of "superseding" it by "a supposed system of inductive logic."

Meantime, while recurring again and again, as was his custom, to this cardinal difficulty, Mill worked indefatigably in other directions where he saw his way clear.

In 1835 Sir William Molesworth founded the London Review with Mill as editor; it was amalgamated with the Wesminster (as the London and Westminster Review) in 1836, and Mill continued editor (latterly proprietor also) till 1840.

The essays on Bentham and Coleridge constituted the first manifesto of the new spirit which Mill sought to breathe into English Radicalism.

But the reprinted papers give no just idea of the immense range of Mill's energy at this time.

It was in 1837, on reading Whewell's Inductive Sciences and re-reading Herschel, that Mill at last saw his way clear both to formulating the methods of scientific investigation and joining on the new logic as a supplement to the old.

These essays were worked out and written many years before, and show Mill in his first stage as a political economist.

Though Mill appears here purely as the disciple of Ricardo, striving after more precise statement, and reaching forward to further consequences, we can well understand in reading these essays how about the time when he first sketched them he began to be conscious of power as an original and independent thinker.

While his great systematic works were in progress, Mill wrote very little on events or books of the day.

Mill could now feel that his main work was accomplished; he remained, however, on the alert for opportunities of useful influence, and pressed on with hardly diminished enthusiasm in his search for useful truth.

During the seven years of his married life Mill published less than in any other period of his career, but four of his most ' Mrs Taylor (Harriet Hardy) was the wife of John Taylor, a wholesale druggist in the city of London.

She was a confirmed invalid, and lived in the country, where Mill visited her regularly for twenty years, with the full consent of her husband, a man of limited mental powers, but of high character and unselfishness.

Mill's friendship with Mrs Taylor and their marriage in 1851 involved a break with his family (apparently due to his resentment at a fancied slight, not to any bitterness on their part), and his practical disappearance from society.

Mill was earnestly opposed to the transfer, and the documents in which he substantiated the proud boast for the Company that "few governments, even under far more favourable circumstances, have attempted so much for the good of their subjects or carried so many of their attempts to a beneficial issue," and exposed the defects of the proposed new government, are models of trenchant and dignified pleading.

On the dissolution of the Company Mill was offered a seat in the new council, but declined, and retired with a pension of 1500.

The chief feature in this was an idea concerning which he and Mrs Mill often deliberated - the necessity of providing checks against uneducated democracy.

Soon after Mill supported in Fraser's, still with the same object, Hare's scheme for the representation of minorities.

While mainly occupied in those years with philosophical studies, Mill did not remit his interest in current politics.

It was characteristic of the closeness with which he watched current events, and of his zeal in the cause of "lucidity," that when the Reader, an organ of science and unpartisan opinion, fell into difficulties in 1865 Mill joined with some distinguished men of science and letters in an effort to keep it afloat.

The story of this remarkable election has been told by James Beal, one of the most active supporters of Mill's candidature.

As a speaker Mill was somewhat hesitating, pausing occasionally as if to recover the thread of his argument, but he showed great readiness in extemporaneous debate.