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mill1

noun mɪlmɪl
  • 1A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour.

    磨坊,碾磨厂,磨粉厂

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Built in the 1950s as a flour mill, this huge brick building was used for only 20 years before it was abandoned.
    • One older farmer, John, came into the mill today with a bag of wheat he's just harvested.
    • The co-op has also just purchased its own whole-wheat flour mill (albeit used).
    • Mr Naeem in his petition pointed out that as many as 100 flour mills have been closed down in the province due to non-availability of wheat.
    • He recently finished a series of photos of old grist mills.
    • Then, just a short distance from the church, the archaeologists discovered evidence of metalworking, a mill and farm buildings.
    • This is the case for alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, edible oils and fats, grain and feed mills, bakeries and ice cream factories.
    • Urban Splash will then turn its attention to other projects in the town - with renovations of old mills and the building of new apartments both likely.
    • At mills or bakeries, barley flour can be added to flours from other grains for baking.
    • These water mill agencies each operated a mill, making flour for the Food Services Bureau of the imperial palaces as well as for other residents of the capital city.
    • Last year the company closed several grain mills in NSW.
    • The town boasted three flour mills, a bakery, a tannery, several breweries, shops and rows and rows of little cottages.
    • Derelict flour mills on the River Roach could become a new marine development, possibly including waterside homes and moorings.
    • To complete a second mill, growers were charged higher fees, resulting in the defection of many Depression-weary members.
    • The agriculture-based industry like cold stores, rice mills and flour mills had come to a grinding halt.
    • Once upon a time, there was a handful of organic grain farmers in New York and one organic flour mill.
    • The first industries, which developed at the beginning of the twentieth century, included a brewery, a chocolate factory, and a flour mill.
    • Formed out of an old flour mill, the building has a powerful green pre-patinated louvred wall which modifies sun penetration of the interior.
    • In flour mills and food processing plants, insects that survive an insecticide treatment could live on food or crumbs left by poor sanitation.
    • The automobile assembly plants in Detroit, the flour mills in Minneapolis, and the stockyards in Chicago were all urban institutions.
    Synonyms
    factory, plant, processing plant, works, workshop, shop, foundry, industrial centre, industrial unit
    1. 1.1 A piece of machinery for grinding grain.
      磨坊,碾磨厂,磨粉厂
      a direct steam-driven flour mill
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Terrestrial centrifugal grinding mills and density-separation jigs can be adapted for this work.
      • The grinding or rolling of grain can produce acceptable swine feeds if the mills are operated correctly.
      • In Hobart and Launceston the colonists captured the waters of nearby streams to power flour mills.
      • In colonial America, small streams powered rural grist mills and sawmills.
      • The hand mill for grinding flour was knocked over and she righted it, but as she looked around her, she realized there was not enough here for her to start again.
    2. 1.2 A domestic device for grinding a solid substance to powder.
      磨,碾磨机
      a pepper mill
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Also at odds with the ‘fine dining’ experience were the salt and pepper shakers on each table - not a pepper or salt mill in sight.
      • The fish is seasoned with salt and a few twists of a mill containing peppercorns and allspice berries.
      Synonyms
      grinder, quern, crusher
  • 2A factory fitted with machinery for a particular manufacturing process.

    制造厂,作坊

    a steel mill

    轧钢厂。

    as modifier a mill town
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The building, a former textile mill, has been unoccupied for a number of years.
    • The economy was booming when construction of the paper pulp mill began in 1986.
    • Along the way, the train passes by abandoned steel mills and through the towns where the employees who worked there lived.
    • The former cotton mill was last used as a small engineering firm.
    • For example, rural areas are having to contend with the disappearance of industries such as assembly plants, textile mills, and food processing plants.
    • The inspiration for designing and building my own lumber mill came strictly from a cost standpoint.
    • Under oath Peter could not deny that this was how she was employed by the mill.
    • The first wave of Asian immigrants worked for low wages in woollen mills.
    • Build some new textile mills in third world countries.
    • Despite efforts to develop the building, the former mill has been largely derelict since 1987 although part of it has been used for denim jean manufacture.
    • The mill was equipped with all the latest technological innovations and, when completed, was said to be among the world's best.
    • This footage is followed by scarily similar scenes of rows of identical workers entering and working in the factories and steel mills.
    • While the mill employed many workers, they were often interesting men with odd pasts.
    • The lumber mill closed three years ago, plunging the town into ruin.
    • The former textile mill is a chaotic sprawl of one- and two-story buildings that house 50-plus stores.
    • Unlike machinery used in textile mills, steelmaking machinery had few spinning belts that could pull workers into drive shafts.
    • He wanted to know about the people who worked in the factories, spinning mills and workshops.
    • We regular listeners became as familiar with the kids and teachers of this Midwestern steel mill town as we were with our own relatives.
    • Both were located in mill towns - one steel, the other pottery - and on Sunday mornings, he drove back and forth between the two.
    • Essie Mae grew up mainly with an aunt and uncle in a steel mill town not far from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
    1. 2.1 A piece of manufacturing machinery.
      机器;铣床
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Change lay ahead, and the mills and traction engines would be superseded as working units, but interest in them has not died.
      • John explained that the teams operating the traction engines and threshing mills will have them working for twenty minutes at a time several times a day so that the public can gain a picture of what the work was like.
      • The firm, which makes internal mixers, mills and calenders for the rubber and plastic industry, has gone into receivership.
      • Steam power drove threshing mills and other barn machinery.
  • 3informal An engine.

    〈非正式〉引擎

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Engine options range from a 125 bhp, 2.2 litre turbodiesel mill to a pair of new turbocharged 2.0 litre petrol units.
  • 4dated, informal A boxing match or a fist fight.

    〈非正式,旧〉拳击比赛;拳斗

verb mɪlmɪl
[with object]
  • 1Grind (something) in a mill.

    磨,碾

    hard wheats are easily milled into white flour

    硬质小麦很容易就被磨成了白面粉。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • At the same time, the dairymaid produced her usual six cloves of butter, repairs were made to the castle, the harvest was brought in and the grain was milled.
    • After the husk is removed, the rice is milled to remove the bran (the brown skin just under the husk) and the germ or embryo (the life of a rice kernel which grows into a rice plant).
    • One company plans to produce organic noodles and steamed breads from wheat flour obtained by milling organic wheat.
    • They are also responsible for the family vegetable and fruit gardens and for threshing, husking, and milling the grain.
    • A portion of this sample was crushed and milled into a fine powder.
    • Brands evolved after the Civil War as a pledge of quality for newly mobile individuals who no longer had personal connections with the cobbler who made their boots or the farmer who milled their grain.
    • Mervin Austin mills his own flour using French burr stones and Derbyshire peak stones.
    • Thirteen major companies milled durum wheat in the United States in 1991 when DGP was organized, but there have been significant changes since then.
    • The sheer magnitude of the workload, from planting, harvesting and milling the cane, to boiling and curing the sugar, meant that the plantations had a huge workforce.
    • The export market for milling wheat into bread is worth £2bn a year to Canada.
    • Heritage also uses freshly milled flour, purchased from a local miller, and both bakeries use a slow-rise yeast to make their bread.
    • The herbs are screened and finely milled for quick release and effectiveness in the body.
    • Now quickly add the chives, ricotta, torta Gorgonzola and pecorino plus a seasoning of freshly milled pepper and stir until the cheese begins to melt.
    • Refined white flour is what's left after the nutrient-packed germ and bran are milled out of the wheat kernel.
    • After the herbs are milled into powder, they're tested again.
    • By the way of a grant, the project would include a mill that would be managed by the cooperative so that farmers could be milling the sorghum for consumption.
    • ‘When you mill rice, you have about 15 percent that are broken or immature,’ says Kadan.
    • Now, instead of paying to have someone else mill their wheat, they add value to their crop by grinding and bagging it themselves.
    • Dried lactose is milled to 100-or 200-mesh granulation and air conveyed to one of three 100,000-pound storage bins.
    • Chaff is the husk of wheat and other grains; to mill the grain the chaff must be separated from the grain.
    Synonyms
    grind, pulverize, powder, granulate, kibble
    grate, pound, crush, crunch, press
    rare comminute, triturate, bray, levigate
  • 2Cut or shape (metal) with a rotating tool.

    切割(金属);铣

    in the machine shop we mill and grind the castings
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Brad's father, a machinist by trade, introduced him to the mechanical skills of lathing and milling at age 15, and it was off to the races.
    • It's not like a milling machine with the computer outside; the tool itself needs to be smart enough to do logic in assembly.
    • Typically, these ores have been milled and floated to produce a concentrate of higher metal grades.
    • In the early 20th century, metal mining and milling led to pollution of municipal water supplies and fish kills, and sewage was discharged untreated.
    • Off to one side is a modern CNC machine center, and the lathes and milling machines are of a newer vintage.
    • Who says electronic devices have to be moulded out of unyielding plastic or milled from hard metal?
    • Rob remembers that as a boy, if he did not hear the sounds of a lathe or a milling machine coming from the garage, he knew something was not normal.
    • I used a lathe to turn a steel rod into a bulletlike shape, then used a milling machine to cut away a quarter-circle wedge of the rod, leaving a sharp cutting edge.
    • Other aluminum bearing applications are in heavy tooling, such as boring mills, presses, lathes, milling machines, and grinding mills, and as hydraulic pump bushings.
    • Drilling for the takedown screw must be done with a milling machine, or at the minimum on a good drill press with a rigid quill.
    • Drills, lathes, and milling machines produce metal trimmings that machine shops discard as trash or melt down for reuse.
    • Every job performed is done in a single setup, which may involve milling (via live tools) as well as turning.
    • Indeed, a small number can - and do - manufacture frames, barrels and other parts, all done the hard way on a milling machine and lathe in the shop.
    • Here, in sweltering heat, sparks fly as molten iron is ladled into vast bins, and ribbons of fiery metal roll through milling machines.
    • Finally, the virtual stone files were released to the stonecutters for milling on their CNC machines.
    • We have to remember in the 30s when most of this work was done, they didn't have CNC, just basic lathes and milling machines.
    • This reminds me of one time that the chiller broke down and it took about 13 1/2 hours to put a new shaft in it because it had to be milled at a machine shop and then put in there.
    • The indenter was secured into the arbor of a milling machine.
    • Constructing stations, mining uranium ore, milling, enriching, fabrication, decommissioning etc - are all very carbon-intensive processes.
    • Industrial accidents, too, are common, especially to people using high-speed machinery such as grinders, drills, saws, lathes or milling machines without adequate eye protection.
    1. 2.1 Produce regular ribbed markings on the edge of (a coin) as a protection against illegal clipping.
      轧出(硬币的)边纹
      gold and silver coins were milled in order to prevent unscrupulous persons from shaving off the edges
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It made coins with plain rather than milled or otherwise marked edges.
  • 3usually mill about/aroundno object (of people or animals) move around in a confused mass.

    (人或动物)无目的地乱转;绕圈子

    tourists were milling about in the lobby
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Not far away, there's a crowd milling around a small auditorium.
    • Adam slammed on the brakes when he got a glimpse of the animals milling around in a large lot.
    • The crowd was moving, milling around with boredom as they slowly began to disperse.
    • Huge crowds of teenagers are milling around outside and spilling into the park opposite.
    • The extras mill around, picture-perfect huddled masses wearing scarves and winter coats fresh from wardrobe.
    • All of this was happening, mind you, while the guests were milling about.
    • About them, a flock of sheep and goats milled aimlessly.
    • At the party there were a few guests milling around in the kitchen.
    • At its command, students milling around the parade square sought for their places, gathering in their class lines.
    • I must say, though, that most of the pictures show a boisterous crowd of young people milling around, running in and out of traffic.
    • The press milled around in confusion for a moment or two.
    • She took note of nothing for a good hour afterwards as people were still milling around.
    • People milled around, some walking around leisurely and others hurrying about their business.
    • Mom led us down the stairs and into the throng of guests that were milling about the giant room.
    • The dogs, losing the scent, milled about in confusion.
    • The train can be jammed with local passengers, with crowds milling around on the platforms.
    • In spite of the light drizzle, the crowd milling around a filthy mud tenement continued to swell.
    • She was then promptly greeted with a crowd of people milling about and even more heat.
    • Scattered groups of tourists milled around the surrounding grassland, and nobody seemed to know how to enter.
    Synonyms
    throng, swarm, seethe, crowd, stream, surge
  • 4Thicken (wool or another animal fibre) by fulling it.

    使(羊毛或其他动物纤维)缩绒(或缩呢)

    ordinary wool blankets are made by milling a woven wool fabric

Phrases

  • go (or put someone) through the mill

    • Undergo (or cause someone to undergo) an unpleasant experience.

      (使)经受磨炼;(使)饱尝艰辛

      we have been through the mill, but it has been worth the fight
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I thoroughly recommend it - there are times when you feel like you're going through the mill and can't verbalise what you're going through, or just plain feel empty.
      • If I'd known putting you through the mill would bring about this kind of improvement, I wouldn't have wasted all that time talking.
      • However, their exertions in Yorkshire seemed to have caught up with them as Celtic put them through the mill from the kick-off.
      • The sport really is going through the mill at the moment, as it goes from controversy to fresh controversy.
      • One film had gone through the mill of mishaps and survived until it reached the edit suite.
      • All I've done is sit at a desk in a well-heated room, drinking coffee and eating chocolate, while I put Rebus through the mill for the umpteenth time.
      • If the band were laidback before going through the mill, they seem even more so now.
      • We were going through the mill on the side, not being able to get on and play ourselves.
      • The Russian doctors really put me through the mill, examining me from top to toe.
      • Seeing as my friend's just gone through the mill, I thought it would be interesting to ask him what sort of tips he would have for others thinking about selling up.

Derivatives

  • millable

  • adjective
    • That high conservation value land is also likely to be worth more in terms of millable trees.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Its producer members began the journey as a search for a market for processed, millable seed - a market that would provide the most value-added options for the lowest producer investment.
      • The trees themselves are so thick they'll never turn into millable timber.
      • Commercial sugarcane hybrid cultivars currently in production are high-yielding, disease-resistant, millable canes and are the result of years of breeding work.
      • I will put that another way: once the millable timber has been removed from beech trees for the purpose of furniture manufacture or similar, a huge amount of waste often remains.

Origin

Old English mylen, based on late Latin molinum, from Latin mola 'grindstone, mill', from molere 'to grind'.

  • Early mills ground corn into flour using water or wind power. The root of mill is Latin molere ‘to grind’, also the source of meal ‘the edible part of any grain or pulse’, and molar (Middle English) the grinding tooth. Since the early 19th century people have been able to put someone through the mill, or cause them to have a difficult experience. A millstone (Old English) is a large circular stone used to grind corn. The origins of a millstone around your neck, ‘a heavy burden of responsibility’, lie in a far more unpleasant practice. It is thought to come from an ancient method of execution which involved throwing a person into deep water with a heavy stone attached to their neck.

Rhymes

bill, Brazil, brill, Camille, chill, cookchill, dill, distil (US distill), downhill, drill, Edgehill, Estoril, fill, freewill, frill, fulfil (US fulfill), Gill, goodwill, grill, grille, hill, ill, instil, kill, krill, mil, nil, Phil, pill, quadrille, quill, rill, Seville, shill, shrill, sill, skill, spadille, spill, squill, still, stock-still, swill, thill, thrill, till, trill, twill, until, uphill, will

mill2

noun mɪlmɪl
North American
  • A monetary unit used only in calculations, worth one thousandth of a dollar.

    〈北美〉密尔,厘(记账用货币单位,等于0.001美元)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A thick paper (and later a lightweight metal) coin with a round hole in the center, the mill was worth one-tenth of a cent.
    • I remember the mill, a piece of currency that was used for a few years near the end of World War II and just after.
    • Starting in 1933 the sales tax rate in Utah was 2% and each token was worth one mill, or a tenth of a cent.

Origin

Late 18th century: from Latin millesimum 'thousandth part'; compare with cent.

mill1

nounmilmɪl
  • 1A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour.

    磨坊,碾磨厂,磨粉厂

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He recently finished a series of photos of old grist mills.
    • The agriculture-based industry like cold stores, rice mills and flour mills had come to a grinding halt.
    • The co-op has also just purchased its own whole-wheat flour mill (albeit used).
    • The automobile assembly plants in Detroit, the flour mills in Minneapolis, and the stockyards in Chicago were all urban institutions.
    • At mills or bakeries, barley flour can be added to flours from other grains for baking.
    • Urban Splash will then turn its attention to other projects in the town - with renovations of old mills and the building of new apartments both likely.
    • Derelict flour mills on the River Roach could become a new marine development, possibly including waterside homes and moorings.
    • The town boasted three flour mills, a bakery, a tannery, several breweries, shops and rows and rows of little cottages.
    • Then, just a short distance from the church, the archaeologists discovered evidence of metalworking, a mill and farm buildings.
    • This is the case for alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, edible oils and fats, grain and feed mills, bakeries and ice cream factories.
    • The first industries, which developed at the beginning of the twentieth century, included a brewery, a chocolate factory, and a flour mill.
    • To complete a second mill, growers were charged higher fees, resulting in the defection of many Depression-weary members.
    • In flour mills and food processing plants, insects that survive an insecticide treatment could live on food or crumbs left by poor sanitation.
    • One older farmer, John, came into the mill today with a bag of wheat he's just harvested.
    • Once upon a time, there was a handful of organic grain farmers in New York and one organic flour mill.
    • Last year the company closed several grain mills in NSW.
    • Formed out of an old flour mill, the building has a powerful green pre-patinated louvred wall which modifies sun penetration of the interior.
    • Built in the 1950s as a flour mill, this huge brick building was used for only 20 years before it was abandoned.
    • Mr Naeem in his petition pointed out that as many as 100 flour mills have been closed down in the province due to non-availability of wheat.
    • These water mill agencies each operated a mill, making flour for the Food Services Bureau of the imperial palaces as well as for other residents of the capital city.
    Synonyms
    factory, plant, processing plant, works, workshop, shop, foundry, industrial centre, industrial unit
    1. 1.1 A piece of machinery that grinds grain into flour.
      磨坊,碾磨厂,磨粉厂
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In Hobart and Launceston the colonists captured the waters of nearby streams to power flour mills.
      • Terrestrial centrifugal grinding mills and density-separation jigs can be adapted for this work.
      • The hand mill for grinding flour was knocked over and she righted it, but as she looked around her, she realized there was not enough here for her to start again.
      • The grinding or rolling of grain can produce acceptable swine feeds if the mills are operated correctly.
      • In colonial America, small streams powered rural grist mills and sawmills.
    2. 1.2 A domestic device for grinding a solid substance to powder or pulp.
      磨,碾磨机
      a coffee mill

      咖啡磨。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Also at odds with the ‘fine dining’ experience were the salt and pepper shakers on each table - not a pepper or salt mill in sight.
      • The fish is seasoned with salt and a few twists of a mill containing peppercorns and allspice berries.
      Synonyms
      grinder, quern, crusher
    3. 1.3US A place that processes things or people in a mechanical way.
      a correspondence school that was just a diploma mill
      Example sentencesExamples
      • What is a reasonable way to dry up the old gossip mill?
      • The university started getting complaints and threats of lawsuits from the diploma mills.
      • This past October, McDevitt and federal agents broke up what they allege could be one of the largest diploma mills in the country.
      • Congress also wanted to get a sense of how much, if any, federal money pays for tuitions at diploma mills.
      • The school is trending toward being nothing more than an expensive diploma mill.
      • According to the General Accounting Office, 28 top federal workers have degrees from diploma mills.
  • 2A building fitted with machinery for a manufacturing process.

    制造厂,作坊

    a steel mill

    轧钢厂。

    as modifier a mill town
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The building, a former textile mill, has been unoccupied for a number of years.
    • He wanted to know about the people who worked in the factories, spinning mills and workshops.
    • Both were located in mill towns - one steel, the other pottery - and on Sunday mornings, he drove back and forth between the two.
    • The lumber mill closed three years ago, plunging the town into ruin.
    • The inspiration for designing and building my own lumber mill came strictly from a cost standpoint.
    • While the mill employed many workers, they were often interesting men with odd pasts.
    • The economy was booming when construction of the paper pulp mill began in 1986.
    • We regular listeners became as familiar with the kids and teachers of this Midwestern steel mill town as we were with our own relatives.
    • The first wave of Asian immigrants worked for low wages in woollen mills.
    • The former textile mill is a chaotic sprawl of one- and two-story buildings that house 50-plus stores.
    • Despite efforts to develop the building, the former mill has been largely derelict since 1987 although part of it has been used for denim jean manufacture.
    • For example, rural areas are having to contend with the disappearance of industries such as assembly plants, textile mills, and food processing plants.
    • Along the way, the train passes by abandoned steel mills and through the towns where the employees who worked there lived.
    • The former cotton mill was last used as a small engineering firm.
    • This footage is followed by scarily similar scenes of rows of identical workers entering and working in the factories and steel mills.
    • Build some new textile mills in third world countries.
    • Essie Mae grew up mainly with an aunt and uncle in a steel mill town not far from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
    • The mill was equipped with all the latest technological innovations and, when completed, was said to be among the world's best.
    • Unlike machinery used in textile mills, steelmaking machinery had few spinning belts that could pull workers into drive shafts.
    • Under oath Peter could not deny that this was how she was employed by the mill.
    1. 2.1 A piece of manufacturing machinery.
      机器;铣床
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Steam power drove threshing mills and other barn machinery.
      • The firm, which makes internal mixers, mills and calenders for the rubber and plastic industry, has gone into receivership.
      • Change lay ahead, and the mills and traction engines would be superseded as working units, but interest in them has not died.
      • John explained that the teams operating the traction engines and threshing mills will have them working for twenty minutes at a time several times a day so that the public can gain a picture of what the work was like.
  • 3informal An engine.

    〈非正式〉引擎

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Engine options range from a 125 bhp, 2.2 litre turbodiesel mill to a pair of new turbocharged 2.0 litre petrol units.
  • 4dated, informal A boxing match or a fistfight.

    〈非正式,旧〉拳击比赛;拳斗

verbmilmɪl
  • 1with object Grind or crush (something) in a mill.

    磨,碾

    hard wheats are easily milled into white flour

    硬质小麦很容易就被磨成了白面粉。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Dried lactose is milled to 100-or 200-mesh granulation and air conveyed to one of three 100,000-pound storage bins.
    • Chaff is the husk of wheat and other grains; to mill the grain the chaff must be separated from the grain.
    • Mervin Austin mills his own flour using French burr stones and Derbyshire peak stones.
    • The sheer magnitude of the workload, from planting, harvesting and milling the cane, to boiling and curing the sugar, meant that the plantations had a huge workforce.
    • The herbs are screened and finely milled for quick release and effectiveness in the body.
    • At the same time, the dairymaid produced her usual six cloves of butter, repairs were made to the castle, the harvest was brought in and the grain was milled.
    • Heritage also uses freshly milled flour, purchased from a local miller, and both bakeries use a slow-rise yeast to make their bread.
    • Brands evolved after the Civil War as a pledge of quality for newly mobile individuals who no longer had personal connections with the cobbler who made their boots or the farmer who milled their grain.
    • After the husk is removed, the rice is milled to remove the bran (the brown skin just under the husk) and the germ or embryo (the life of a rice kernel which grows into a rice plant).
    • After the herbs are milled into powder, they're tested again.
    • By the way of a grant, the project would include a mill that would be managed by the cooperative so that farmers could be milling the sorghum for consumption.
    • Now quickly add the chives, ricotta, torta Gorgonzola and pecorino plus a seasoning of freshly milled pepper and stir until the cheese begins to melt.
    • The export market for milling wheat into bread is worth £2bn a year to Canada.
    • Now, instead of paying to have someone else mill their wheat, they add value to their crop by grinding and bagging it themselves.
    • A portion of this sample was crushed and milled into a fine powder.
    • They are also responsible for the family vegetable and fruit gardens and for threshing, husking, and milling the grain.
    • Thirteen major companies milled durum wheat in the United States in 1991 when DGP was organized, but there have been significant changes since then.
    • ‘When you mill rice, you have about 15 percent that are broken or immature,’ says Kadan.
    • Refined white flour is what's left after the nutrient-packed germ and bran are milled out of the wheat kernel.
    • One company plans to produce organic noodles and steamed breads from wheat flour obtained by milling organic wheat.
    Synonyms
    grind, pulverize, powder, granulate, kibble
  • 2Cut or shape (metal) with a rotating tool.

    切割(金属);铣

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The indenter was secured into the arbor of a milling machine.
    • Typically, these ores have been milled and floated to produce a concentrate of higher metal grades.
    • In the early 20th century, metal mining and milling led to pollution of municipal water supplies and fish kills, and sewage was discharged untreated.
    • Here, in sweltering heat, sparks fly as molten iron is ladled into vast bins, and ribbons of fiery metal roll through milling machines.
    • It's not like a milling machine with the computer outside; the tool itself needs to be smart enough to do logic in assembly.
    • Brad's father, a machinist by trade, introduced him to the mechanical skills of lathing and milling at age 15, and it was off to the races.
    • Drills, lathes, and milling machines produce metal trimmings that machine shops discard as trash or melt down for reuse.
    • I used a lathe to turn a steel rod into a bulletlike shape, then used a milling machine to cut away a quarter-circle wedge of the rod, leaving a sharp cutting edge.
    • Rob remembers that as a boy, if he did not hear the sounds of a lathe or a milling machine coming from the garage, he knew something was not normal.
    • Constructing stations, mining uranium ore, milling, enriching, fabrication, decommissioning etc - are all very carbon-intensive processes.
    • Other aluminum bearing applications are in heavy tooling, such as boring mills, presses, lathes, milling machines, and grinding mills, and as hydraulic pump bushings.
    • Every job performed is done in a single setup, which may involve milling (via live tools) as well as turning.
    • This reminds me of one time that the chiller broke down and it took about 13 1/2 hours to put a new shaft in it because it had to be milled at a machine shop and then put in there.
    • Off to one side is a modern CNC machine center, and the lathes and milling machines are of a newer vintage.
    • Indeed, a small number can - and do - manufacture frames, barrels and other parts, all done the hard way on a milling machine and lathe in the shop.
    • We have to remember in the 30s when most of this work was done, they didn't have CNC, just basic lathes and milling machines.
    • Drilling for the takedown screw must be done with a milling machine, or at the minimum on a good drill press with a rigid quill.
    • Who says electronic devices have to be moulded out of unyielding plastic or milled from hard metal?
    • Finally, the virtual stone files were released to the stonecutters for milling on their CNC machines.
    • Industrial accidents, too, are common, especially to people using high-speed machinery such as grinders, drills, saws, lathes or milling machines without adequate eye protection.
    1. 2.1 Produce regular ribbed markings on the edge of (a coin) as a protection against illegal clipping.
      轧出(硬币的)边纹
      gold and silver coins were milled in order to prevent unscrupulous persons from shaving off the edges
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It made coins with plain rather than milled or otherwise marked edges.
  • 3usually mill about/aroundno object (of people or animals) move around in a confused mass.

    (人或动物)无目的地乱转;绕圈子

    people milled about the room, shaking hands

    大家在房间里转来转去互相握手。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She was then promptly greeted with a crowd of people milling about and even more heat.
    • Mom led us down the stairs and into the throng of guests that were milling about the giant room.
    • The press milled around in confusion for a moment or two.
    • Scattered groups of tourists milled around the surrounding grassland, and nobody seemed to know how to enter.
    • At its command, students milling around the parade square sought for their places, gathering in their class lines.
    • The extras mill around, picture-perfect huddled masses wearing scarves and winter coats fresh from wardrobe.
    • Not far away, there's a crowd milling around a small auditorium.
    • The train can be jammed with local passengers, with crowds milling around on the platforms.
    • All of this was happening, mind you, while the guests were milling about.
    • People milled around, some walking around leisurely and others hurrying about their business.
    • Adam slammed on the brakes when he got a glimpse of the animals milling around in a large lot.
    • About them, a flock of sheep and goats milled aimlessly.
    • At the party there were a few guests milling around in the kitchen.
    • The dogs, losing the scent, milled about in confusion.
    • In spite of the light drizzle, the crowd milling around a filthy mud tenement continued to swell.
    • I must say, though, that most of the pictures show a boisterous crowd of young people milling around, running in and out of traffic.
    • She took note of nothing for a good hour afterwards as people were still milling around.
    • The crowd was moving, milling around with boredom as they slowly began to disperse.
    • Huge crowds of teenagers are milling around outside and spilling into the park opposite.
    Synonyms
    throng, swarm, seethe, crowd, stream, surge
  • 4with object Thicken (wool or another animal fiber) by fulling it.

    使(羊毛或其他动物纤维)缩绒(或缩呢)

Phrases

  • go (or put someone) through the mill

    • Undergo (or cause someone to undergo) an unpleasant experience.

      (使)经受磨炼;(使)饱尝艰辛

      Example sentencesExamples
      • If I'd known putting you through the mill would bring about this kind of improvement, I wouldn't have wasted all that time talking.
      • The Russian doctors really put me through the mill, examining me from top to toe.
      • All I've done is sit at a desk in a well-heated room, drinking coffee and eating chocolate, while I put Rebus through the mill for the umpteenth time.
      • One film had gone through the mill of mishaps and survived until it reached the edit suite.
      • I thoroughly recommend it - there are times when you feel like you're going through the mill and can't verbalise what you're going through, or just plain feel empty.
      • Seeing as my friend's just gone through the mill, I thought it would be interesting to ask him what sort of tips he would have for others thinking about selling up.
      • However, their exertions in Yorkshire seemed to have caught up with them as Celtic put them through the mill from the kick-off.
      • We were going through the mill on the side, not being able to get on and play ourselves.
      • If the band were laidback before going through the mill, they seem even more so now.
      • The sport really is going through the mill at the moment, as it goes from controversy to fresh controversy.

Origin

Old English mylen, based on late Latin molinum, from Latin mola ‘grindstone, mill’, from molere ‘to grind’.

mill2

nounmilmɪl
North American
  • A monetary unit used only in calculations, worth one thousandth of a dollar.

    〈北美〉密尔,厘(记账用货币单位,等于0.001美元)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Starting in 1933 the sales tax rate in Utah was 2% and each token was worth one mill, or a tenth of a cent.
    • I remember the mill, a piece of currency that was used for a few years near the end of World War II and just after.
    • A thick paper (and later a lightweight metal) coin with a round hole in the center, the mill was worth one-tenth of a cent.

Origin

Late 18th century: from Latin millesimum ‘thousandth part’; compare with cent.

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