mills is a form of:
Mill
noun
- 1.
- (machinery for grinding grain, a building fitted with this, any machine for grinding or crushing a solid substance into powder, a machine for grinding corn) flour mill រោង (អារឈើកិនស្រូវ ។ល។), steel mill, coffee mill ប្រដាប់កិន
- 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) រោងម៉ាស៊ីន
verb — past tense: milled ; past participle: milled ; present participle: milling ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (grind, work, form, etc. by or in a mill) mill wheat កិន, mill a coin បោះ (ប្រាក់កាក់ ។ល។)
- 2.
- (INTRANSITIVE) (To move slowly in a circle. -through the mill through a hard, painful, instructive experience) mill around រញៀវ
Example: Pepper milt coffee mill, Flour mill; windmill; water mill, Cloth mill; steel rolling mill, millstream, etc.
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
- 2.
- A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.
- 3.
- 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.
- 4.
- A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
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- An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
- 9.
- A passage underground through which ore is shot.
- 10.
- A milling cutter.
- 11.
- Short for Treadmill.
- 12.
- The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw.
verb — past tense: milled ; past participle: milled ; present participle: milling ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle.
- 3.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
- 4.
- To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
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- To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
- 6.
- 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.
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- To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
- 8.
- To beat with the fists.
- 9.
- To roll into bars, as steel.
- 10.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To undergo hulling, as maize.
- 11.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain.
- 12.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To swim suddenly in a new direction; -- said of whales.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To take part in a mill; to box.
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- A pugilistic