mill
1. a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing (Freq. 4)
• Syn:
factory, manufacturing plant, manufactory
• Members of this Topic:
closed-circuit television, conveyer belt, conveyor belt, conveyer, conveyor,
transporter, uptime
• Hypernyms:
plant, works, industrial plant
• Hyponyms:
assembly plant, automobile factory, auto factory, car factory, cannery,
chemical plant, foundry, metalworks, lumbermill, sawmill, paper mill,
stamp mill, stamping mill, steel mill, steelworks, steel plant, steel factory,
sweatshop, textile mill
• Part Meronyms:
production line, assembly line, line, shop floor
2. the act of grinding to a powder or dust
• Syn:
grind, pulverization, pulverisation
• Derivationally related forms:
pulverise (for: pulverisation), pulverize (for: pulverization), grind (for: grind)
• Hypernyms:
crush, crunch, compaction
3. machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
• Syn:
grinder, milling machinery
• Derivationally related forms:
grind (for: grinder)
• Hypernyms:
machinery
• Hyponyms:
cider mill, coffee mill, coffee grinder, flour mill, gristmill,
meat grinder, pepper mill, pepper grinder, quern, spicemill, treadmill,
treadwheel, tread-wheel, water mill, windmill
1. move about in a confused manner (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
mill about, mill around
• Hypernyms:
move
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
2. grind with a mill (Freq. 1)
- mill grain
• Hypernyms:
grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
3. produce a ridge around the edge of
- mill a coin
• Derivationally related forms:
milling
• Hypernyms:
groove
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
4. roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
• Hypernyms:
roll out, roll
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
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