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mill English

Meaning mill meaning

What does mill mean?
Definitions in simple English

mill Noun

— A mill is a place where things are processed with machines. — #A mill is a place where grain is ground to make flour. — #:There was an old mill by the farm. — #A mill is a factory or place for (making) things. — #:My grandfather worked for many years at a steel mill. — #:General Mills is large company the makes cereal. — A mill is a small machine for grinding. We have a hand held pepper mill at home.

mill Verb

— If you mill grain, you grind it at a mill. You must dry and mill the corn before you can make bread with it.

mill

— noun (= factory) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing — verb grind with a mill mill grain — verb move about in a confused manner — verb produce a ridge around the edge of mill a coin — verb roll out (metal) with a rolling machine — noun machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing — noun (= grind) the act of grinding to a powder or dust

Mill

— noun Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836) — noun English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)

Synonyms mill synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as mill?

mill English » English

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Mill English » English

John Stuart Mill John Mill James Mill

Topics mill topics

What do people use mill to talk about?
Daily life Food Food preparation Steps in food preparation

Grind flour
Work and occupation Agriculture Process harvest

Mill grain
Work and occupation Tool

Machine
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with water
Physical actions Arrange

Multiple things moving

Conjugation mill conjugation

How do you conjugate mill?

mill · verb

Examples mill examples

How do I use mill in a sentence?

Simple sentences

This is grist to his mill.
There is a water mill above the bridge.
All's grist that comes to his mill.
We were at the mill, near the hemp field.
He works in a saw mill.
That's water to his mill.
He works at the steel mill.

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Or I might take our business to the mill in Buxton.
Burn the mill!
The strangers headed for the mill there's a light up there.
One on the hill near the powder house. The other in the mill.
He's dragged me into every gin mill on the block.
My wife's father died and left her a narrow gauge railway. and a lumber mill and. several other things.
Henry Frankenstein himself thrown from the top of the burning mill by the very monster he had created.
Well, then, imagine yourselves standing by the wreckage of the mill.
Go down the Mill Lane, that will take you to the High Road.
You persuade me to stay in this deserted mill until dark.
What? A bit of paper coming out of the old mill.
In vacations, I worked in a steel mill and in an automobile factory.
No, they simply happened to be the only jobs I could get but you can learn a lot in a steel mill, a lot you don't get at Harvard.
It's my home, my mill!
Your mill?
What a classy mill! It's something else. It's a ruin.
What's that mill?
Just a mill. Butt out.
Why is he locked in a mill?
Into the mill?
At midnight two suspicious characters approach the old mill. At midnight two suspicious characters approach the old mill.
The old mill is at the center of the battle.
Mr. Raynal, owner of a nearby mill, inspected the building every month to evaluate needed repairs.
My dear little Carrot-top, would you be nice and fetch me some flour from the mill?
I won't go to the mill.
I'm ordering you. to go immediately to the mill and fetch the flour.
I politely asked Carrot-top to do me a favour, to walk to the mill.
Go and fetch a pound of flour from the mill.
Go on, my dear, you go to the mill.
I worked at the silk mill in Senju until yesterday.
He owned the mill on Pooker Hill.

News and current affairs

In Mill's view, we are justified in stopping him only to make sure that he is aware of the danger.
This pattern would not have surprised nineteenth-century economists like Mill or Walter Bagehot, who understood the financial-sector origins of industrial depression.
Another precondition for Mill was the ability and desire of citizens to make considered choices.
They were probably exercised by only a minority of people even at the time when Mill wrote on representative government.
The harder it becomes to discern any rationality in the Bush administration's actions, the louder the rumor mill grinds.
If we agree with Mill, then only one of Gates's examples falls into the category of expression that should be protected.
We may therefore restrict both of them without running afoul of Mill's argument.
In his classic essay On Liberty, John Stuart Mill defended free speech on the ground that free inquiry was necessary to advance knowledge.
For example, the Sulaymaniyah Sugar Mill was bombed during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980's, but its employees have been paid ever since, though only rats and pigeons now report for work there.
Mill saw that excess demand for some particular set of assets in financial markets was mirrored by excess supply of goods and services in product markets, which in turn generated excess supply of workers in labor markets.
In these circumstances, we can be sure of what Mill would have recommended.
Why, its legal envoys are investigating an anti-dumping law suit against the Kremikovtsi steel mill near Sofia.
Discussions of how far the state may go in promoting the health of its population often start with John Stuart Mill's principle of limiting the state's coercive power to acts that prevent harm to others.
Mill could have accepted requirements for health warnings on cigarette packs, and even graphic photos of diseased lungs if that helps people to understand the choice that they are making; but he would have rejected a ban.
John Stuart Mill, in his classic book On Liberty, considered a situation in which a man sets out to cross a bridge that we know is unsafe.
At a more modest level, hackers were able to destroy a blast furnace at a German steel mill last year.
To be sure, living by Mill's principle often requires protecting the rights of unsavory characters.
The development of modern advertising techniques marks an important difference between Mill's era and ours.
In recent decades, we have experienced a second flowering of the individualism associated with such nineteenth-century thinkers as John Stuart Mill.
In a series of studies, IMF economists have stopped treating the issue as one of good versus evil, and have started treating it as a run-of-the-mill economic choice: capital controls have costs and benefits that can be measured and compared.
In fact, the great nineteenth-century British political thinker John Stuart Mill advocated liberal government without multi-party rule.
Instead of multi-party politics, Mill favored democratic elections constrained by such mechanisms as extra votes for the educated and institutional mechanisms to protect the rights of minorities.
In Mill's view, an open society ruled mainly by educated elites is the most desirable form of government.
Mill owners often built dormitories to house young female workers.
Politics, sociology, history, or medicine: all were grist for the psychoanalyst's mill.
But we do not see a new rush for the works of such figures as John Stuart Mill or Paul Leroy-Beaulieu.
Pleasure is here understood as John Stuart Mill understood it.

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