Mill vs. Meal

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

Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)

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

Mealnoun

Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).

Mealnoun

Food served or eaten as a repast.

Mealnoun

(obsolete) A time or an occasion.

Mealnoun

The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour.

Mealnoun

A speck or spot.

Mealnoun

A part; a fragment; a portion.

Mealverb

To yield or be plentiful in meal.

Mealverb

(transitive) To defile or taint.

Mealnoun

A part; a fragment; a portion.

Mealnoun

The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the act or time of eating a meal; as, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal.

Mealnoun

Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.

Mealnoun

Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.

Mealverb

To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.

Mealverb

To pulverize; as, mealed powder.

Mealnoun

the food served and eaten at one time

Mealnoun

any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times

Mealnoun

coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse

Meal

A meal is an eating occasion that takes place at a certain time and includes prepared food. The names used for specific meals in English vary, depending on the speaker's culture, the time of day, or the size of the meal.