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Mill Definition–noun | 1. | a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, or textiles. | | 2. | a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour and other cereal products. | | 3. | a machine for grinding, crushing, or pulverizing any solid substance: a coffee mill. | | 4. | any of various machines that modify the shape or size of a workpiece by rotating tools or the work: rolling mill. | | 5. | any of various other apparatuses for shaping materials or performing other mechanical operations. | | 6. | a business or institution that dispenses products or services in an impersonal or mechanical manner, as i
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f produced in a factory: a divorce mill; a diploma mill. | | 7. | Machinery. a cutter on a milling machine. | | 8. | a steel roller for receiving and transferring an impressed design, as to a calico-printing cylinder or a banknote-printing plate. | | 9. | Mining. a place or set of machinery for crushing or concentrating ore. | | 10. | Slang. a boxing match or fistfight. | –verb (used with object) | 11. | to grind, work, treat, or shape in or with a mill. | | 12. | Coining. | a. | to make a raised edge on (a coin or the like). | | b. | to make narrow, radial grooves on the raised edge of (a coin or the like). | | | 13. | to beat or stir, as to a froth: to mill chocolate. | | 14. | Slang. to beat or strike; fight; overcome. | –verb (used without object) | 15. | to move around aimlessly, slowly, or confusedly, as a herd of cattle (often fol. by about or around). | | 16. | Slang. to fight or box. | —Idiom | 17. | through the mill, Informal. undergoing or having undergone severe difficulties, trials, etc., esp. with an effect on one's health, personality, or character: He's really been through the mill since his wife's death. | |
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