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How to pronounce mill in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms grinder, milling machinery
Type of machinery
Has types treadwheel, coffee grinder, water mill, windmill, cider mill, tread-wheel, pepper grinder, quern, meat grinder, spicemill, gristmill, flour mill, coffee mill, treadmill, pepper mill
Type Words
Synonyms john mill, john stuart mill
Type Words
Synonyms factory, manufactory, manufacturing plant
Type of plant, industrial plant, works
Has types steel mill, steel factory, foundry, stamping mill, assembly plant, lumbermill, stamp mill, sawmill, paper mill, metalworks, auto factory, automobile factory, cannery, car factory, chemical plant, textile mill, sweatshop, steelworks, steel plant
Type Words
Synonyms mill about, mill around
Type of move
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Synonyms grind, pulverisation, pulverization
Type of compaction, crush, crunch
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Synonyms james mill
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Type of comminute, grind, mash, bray, crunch


mill grain.
Type Words
Type of groove
Derivation milling


mill a coin.
Type Words
Type of roll out, roll

Examples of mill

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Fraser Papers closed its Gorham mill in October, putting 240 people out of work.
From the bostonherald.com
The Legislature approved the database in 2009 as the pill mill problem worsened.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The hero of the story is Joe Hill, a good kid from an old mill town in Virginia.
From the bloomberg.com
It's surprising what some hotels will do for pets, and not run-of-the-mill pets.
From the abcnews.go.com
I just left the Cone of Understanding, and I have some grist to add to the mill.
From the economist.com
It featured a mill and working waterwheel cradled between two enormous conifers.
From the telegraph.co.uk
In 20 or so converted mill workshops, shoppers browse the chi-chi new boutiques.
From the telegraph.co.uk
At that time, my grandfathers were, respectively, a blacksmith and a mill owner.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
The mill extracts the plant's juice, which filters through burlap into a barrel.
From the tennessean.com
More examples
  • Factory: a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
  • Move about in a confused manner
  • Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)
  • Grind with a mill; "mill grain"
  • English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)
  • Produce a ridge around the edge of; "mill a coin"
  • Number prefixes are prefixes derived from numbers or numerals. In English and other European languages, they are used to coin numerous series of words, such as unicycle - bicycle - tricycle, dyad - triad - tetrad, biped - quadruped, September - October - November, decimal - hexadecimal, ...
  • Philip Miller FRS (1691 u2013 18 December 1771) was an English botanist of Scottish descent.
  • The mill or mille (sometimes mil in the UK, when discussing property taxes in the United States, or previously in Cyprus and Malta) is a now abstract unit of currency used sometimes in accounting. ...