Factory vs. Mill

Factorynoun

(obsolete) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.

Factorynoun

The position or state of being a factor.

Factorynoun

A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

Factorynoun

A device which produces or manufactures something.

Factorynoun

(programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.

Factoryadjective

Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.

Factorynoun

A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.

Factorynoun

The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory.

Factorynoun

A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory.

Factorynoun

a plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing

Factory

A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial site, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. They are a critical part of modern economic production, with the majority of the world's goods being created or processed within factories.

Millnoun

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

Millnoun

The building housing such a grinding apparatus.

Millnoun

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.

Millnoun

A machine for grinding and polishing.

Millnoun

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

Millnoun

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

Millnoun

A building housing such a plant.

Millnoun

(figurative) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation routinely, such as a divorce mill, etc.

Millnoun

(figurative) An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised

Millnoun

(informal) An engine.

Millnoun

(informal) A boxing match, fistfight.

Millnoun

(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.

Millnoun

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

Millnoun

(mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.

Millnoun

A milling cutter.

Millnoun

A treadmill.

Millnoun

An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.

Millnoun

One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.

Millnoun

A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.

Millnoun

(trading card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.

Millnoun

(trading card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.

Millverb

(transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.

Millverb

(transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.

Millverb

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

Millverb

To move about in an aimless fashion.

Millverb

(transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.

Millverb

To swim underwater.

Millverb

To swim suddenly in a new direction.

Millverb

To beat; to pound.

Millverb

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

Millverb

(transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.

Millverb

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

Millverb

(intransitive) To undergo hulling.

Millverb

To take part in a fistfight; to box.

Millverb

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

Millverb

To commit burglary.

Millverb

To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.

Millverb

To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.

Millnoun

A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.

Millnoun

A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or indented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.

Millnoun

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; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.

Millnoun

A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.

Millnoun

A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.

Millnoun

A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.

Millnoun

A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.

Millnoun

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

Millnoun

A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.

Millnoun

A pugilistic encounter.

Millnoun

Short for Treadmill.

Millnoun

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

Millnoun

A building or complex of buildings containing a mill{1} or other machinery to grind grains into flour.

Millverb

To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.

Millverb

To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.

Millverb

To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.

Millverb

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

Millverb

To beat with the fists.

Millverb

To roll into bars, as steel.

Millverb

To swim under water; - said of air-breathing creatures.

Millverb

To undergo hulling, as maize.

Millverb

To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain; to move around aimlessly; - usually used with around.

Millverb

To swim suddenly in a new direction; - said of whales.

Millverb

To take part in a mill; to box.

Millverb

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

Millverb

To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle.

Millnoun

a plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing

Millnoun

English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)

Millnoun

machine that processes materials by grinding or crushing

Millnoun

the act of grinding to a powder or dust

Millverb

move about in a confused manner

Millverb

grind with a mill;

Millverb

produce a ridge around the edge of;

Millverb

roll out (metal) with a rolling machine

Millnoun

a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour.

Millnoun

a piece of machinery for grinding grain

Millnoun

a domestic device for grinding a solid substance to powder

Millnoun

a factory fitted with machinery for a particular manufacturing process

Millnoun

a piece of manufacturing machinery.

Millnoun

an engine.

Millnoun

a boxing match or a fist fight.

Millnoun

a monetary unit used only in calculations, worth one thousandth of a dollar.

Millverb

grind (something) in a mill

Millverb

cut or shape (metal) with a rotating tool

Millverb

produce regular ribbed markings on the edge of (a coin) as a protection against illegal clipping

Millverb

(of people or animals) move around in a confused mass

Millverb

thicken (wool or another animal fibre) by fulling it