Collins English-English Dictionary

mill [mɪl]

1. 1. n a building in which grain is crushed and ground to make flour

2. 2. n a factory, esp one which processes raw materials

   a steel mill

3. 3. n any of various processing or manufacturing machines, esp one that grinds, presses, or rolls

4. 4. n any of various small hand mills used for grinding pepper, salt, or coffee for domestic purposes - See also coffee mill pepper mill

5. 5. n a hard roller for impressing a design, esp in a textile-printing machine or in a machine for printing banknotes

6. 6. n a system, institution, etc, that influences people or things in the manner of a factory

   going through the educational mill

7. 7. n an unpleasant experience; ordeal (esp in the phrases go or be put through the mill)

8. 8. n a fist fight

9. 9. vt. [tr] to grind, press, or pulverize in or as if in a mill

10. 10. vt. [tr] to process or produce in or with a mill

11. 11. vt. to cut or roll (metal) with or as if with a milling machine

12. 12. vt. [tr] to groove or flute the edge of (a coin)

13. 13. vi. [intr; often foll by about or around] to move about in a confused manner

14. 14. vi. [usually tr] [now rare] to beat (chocolate, etc)

15. 15. vi. [archaic slang] to fight, esp with the fists

16. 16. vi. [Etymology] Old English mylen from Late Latin molina a mill, from Latin mola mill, millstone, from molere to grind

mill [mɪl]

1. 1. n a US and Canadian monetary unit used in calculations, esp for property taxes, equal to one thousandth of a dollar

2. 2. n [Etymology] C18: short for Latin millesimum a thousandth (part)