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4-letter words (1 found)

MILL,

3-letter words (2 found)

ILL,MIL,

2-letter words (2 found)

LI,MI,

You can make 5 words from mill according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of mill

mill imll mlil lmil ilml liml mill imll mlil lmil ilml liml mlli lmli mlli lmli llmi llmi illm lilm illm lilm llim llim

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Definitions and meaning of mill

mill

Pronunciation

  • enPR: mĭl, IPA(key): /mɪl/
    • (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): [mɪɫ]
    • (l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): [mɪo̯], [mɪʊ̯]
  • Rhymes: -ɪl
  • Homophone: mil

Etymology 1

From Middle English mylne, mille, from Old English mylen, from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu (“mill”), from Late Latin molīna, molīnum, molīnus (“mill”), from Latin molō (“grind, mill”, verb), closely allied to Proto-Germanic *muljaną (“to crush, grind”) (see English millstone). Perhaps cognate with Milne (a surname). Doublet of moulin.

Noun

mill (plural mills)

  1. A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
    Hyponym: pepper mill
  2. The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
    Hyponyms: flour mill, grist mill, windmill
  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.
  4. A machine for grinding and polishing.
  6. A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
  7. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
  8. A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
    Hyponyms: paper mill, steel mill, textile mill
  9. A building housing such a plant.
  10. (figurative) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality.
    divorce mill; puppy mill
  11. (figurative, derogatory) An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
  12. (informal) An engine.
  13. (informal) A boxing match, fistfight.
  14. (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.
  15. (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
  16. (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
  17. A milling cutter.
  18. (historical) A prison treadmill.
  19. (World War I– World War II, US military slang) A military prison, either guardhouse or post prison.
  20. (World War I– World War II military slang) A delousing station, cootie mill.
  21. (CB radio slang) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
Alternative forms
  • miln (obsolete)
Synonyms
  • (plant, building): factory, works
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Sranan Tongo: miri
  • → Hindi: मिल (mil)
Translations

Verb

mill (third-person singular simple present mills, present participle milling, simple past and past participle milled)

  1. (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
  2. (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
  3. (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
  4. (intransitive, followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
  5. (transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.
  6. (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
  7. (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
  8. (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.
  9. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
  10. (transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
  11. (transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
  12. (intransitive) To undergo hulling.
  13. (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.
  14. (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
  15. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To commit burglary.
Synonyms
  • (move about in an aimless fashion): roam, wander
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Latin millesimum.

Noun

mill (plural mills)

  1. An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
  2. One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
Synonyms
  • (one thousandth part): permille, ‰, ₥
Coordinate terms
  • (one thousandth part):
  • percent
  • basis point
Derived terms
  • millage
Derived terms
  • per mill
Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

mill (plural mill)

  1. (informal) Alternative form of mil (“million”)

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mill (plural mills)

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

Etymology 5

Back-formation from millstone, name of a Magic: The Gathering card with this effect (first printed 1994).

Alternative forms

  • Mill (in the sense of "a strategy")

Verb

mill (third-person singular simple present mills, present participle milling, simple past and past participle milled)

  1. (transitive, collectible card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
  2. (transitive, Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
Synonyms
  • (Hearthstone): burn
Derived terms
  • self-mill

Noun

mill (countable and uncountable, plural mills)

  1. (collectible card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
  2. (collectible card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
Derived terms
  • Mill Rogue
Translations

References

  • chapter MILL, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • chapter MILL, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Further reading

  • mill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Mill in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Albanian

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Albanian *meila (“fastening (of a knife)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to attach, fasten”).

Noun

mill m (plural mille, definite milli, definite plural millet)

  1. sheath

Declension

References

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin milium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈmiʎ]
  • Rhymes: -iʎ

Noun

mill m (plural mills)

  1. millet

Derived terms

  • mill del sol

Further reading

  • “mill” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • chapter MILL, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “mill” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “mill” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mʲiːlʲ], [mʲɪlʲ]

Etymology 1

From Old Irish millid (“spoils, ruins, destroys”).

Verb

mill (present analytic milleann, future analytic millfidh, verbal noun milleadh, past participle millte)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) spoil; mar, ruin
    1. ravish
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Noun

mill f (genitive singular mille, nominative plural milleanna)

  1. Alternative form of meill (“flabby, loose, skin; blubber lip; unshapely mouth”)
  2. (botany) pendant bud or flower
Declension

Mutation

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) chapter MILL, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), chapter MILLID, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • Entries containing “mill” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “mill” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Manx

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɪl/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish millid (“spoils, ruins, destroys”). Cognate with Irish mill and Scottish Gaelic mill.

Verb

mill (past vill, future independent millee, verbal noun milley, past participle millit)

  1. destroy, ruin
  2. spoil, tarnish
  3. (as vision) blur
  4. disfigure
  5. corrupt
  6. mess, tumble, rustle
    Ny mill m'olt. ― Don't tumble my hair.

Etymology 2

From Old Irish mil, from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Irish mil, Scottish Gaelic mil, Latin mel, Ancient Greek μέλι (méli). Akin to millish and blass.

Noun

mill m (genitive singular molley, plural millyn)

  1. honey

References

  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), chapter MIL, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miːʎ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish millid (“spoils, ruins, destroys”).

Verb

mill (past mhill, future millidh, verbal noun milleadh, past participle millte)

  1. destroy, spoil, ruin

Etymology 2

Noun

mill m

  1. inflection of meall:
    1. genitive singular
    2. plural

Mutation

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) chapter MILL, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[9], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), chapter MILLID, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Wiradjuri

Alternative forms

  • mil

Noun

mill

  1. (anatomy) eye

Yagara

Noun

mill

  1. Alternative form of mil.

References

  • State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Turubul Body Parts.

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