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单词 millocrats
释义

mill1 /mil/

noun
  1. A machine for grinding by crushing between hard, rough surfaces, or for more or less similar operations
  2. A building or factory where corn, wheat, etc, is ground, or manufacture of some kind is carried on, such as spinning and weaving, paper-making, sawing of timber
  3. A place or institution that mass-produces anything, esp in an impersonal or factory-like manner (figurative)
  4. A snuffbox (also mull), orig one with grinding apparatus (Scot)
  5. A boxing match (old sl)
transitive verb
  1. To grind
  2. To press, stamp, roll, cut into bars, full, furrow the edges of, or otherwise treat in a mill
  3. To froth up
  4. To beat severely with the fists (old sl)
  5. To turn over in the mind, to mull (with over)
intransitive verb
  1. To move round in a curve
  2. To practise the business of a miller
  3. To box (old sl)
  4. (often with about or around) (of a crowd) to move in an aimless or confused manner
ORIGIN: OE myln, from LL molīna, from L mola a mill, from molere to grind

millˈable adjective

milled adjective

  1. Prepared by a grinding-mill or a coining-press
  2. Transversely grooved on the edge (as a coin or screw-head)
  3. Treated by machinery, esp smoothed by calendering rollers in a paper mill

millˈer noun

  1. A person who owns or works a mill
  2. A milling machine

millˈing noun

  1. The business of a miller
  2. The act of passing anything through a mill
  3. The act of fulling cloth
  4. The process of turning and ridging the edge of a screw-head or coin
  5. A gruelling
  6. Aimless or confused movement of a crowd

millocˈracy noun (historical)

A governing class of mill owners, or their rule

millˈocrat noun

millˈboard noun

Stout pasteboard, used esp in binding books

millˈdam noun

  1. The dam of a millpond
  2. A millpond
  3. A millrace or tail-race (Scot)

miller's dog same as tope3

miller's thumb noun

The bullhead

millˈ-eye noun

The opening by which meal comes from a mill

mill girl noun

millˈhand noun

A worker in a mill

millˈ-head noun (mining)

Ore accepted for processing after removal of waste rock and detritus

millˈ-horse noun

A horse that turns a mill

milling cutter noun

A hardened steel disc or cylinder with teeth on the periphery and faces, used in a milling machine for grooving, slotting, etc

milling grade noun (mining)

Ore sufficiently rich, in eg metal, to repay the cost of processing

milling machine noun

A machine-tool for shaping metal, with rotating cutters

mill owner noun

millˈpond noun

  1. A pond to hold water for driving a mill (proverbially smooth)
  2. The Atlantic Ocean (facetious)

millˈrace noun

The current of water that turns a millwheel, or the channel in which it runs

millˈrind noun

An iron support fitted across the hole in an upper millstone

millˈrun noun

  1. A millrace
  2. A test of the quality or mineral content of ore or rock by milling it

millˈscale noun

Scale formed on iron or steel during heating for forging

mill-sixˈpence noun (Shakespeare)

A milled sixpence

millˈstone noun

  1. Either of the two stones used in a mill for grinding corn
  2. A very heavy burden (figurative)

millstone grit noun

  1. A hard, gritty sandstone suitable for millstones
  2. (with cap) a series of grits, sandstones, shales, underlying the British Coal Measures

millˈstream noun

The stream of water that turns a millwheel

millˈtail noun

A tailrace

millˈ-tooth noun

A molar

millˈwheel noun

A water wheel used for driving a mill

millˈwork noun

  1. The machinery of a mill
  2. The planning and putting up of machinery in mills

millˈworker noun

millˈwright noun

A wright or mechanic who builds and repairs mills

gastric mill

In Malacostraca, a digestive organ, sometimes known as the stomach, provided with muscles and ossicles for the trituration of food

go or put through the mill

To undergo or subject to probationary hardships, suffering or experience, or severe handling

run-of-the-mill see under run

see through a millstone

To see far into or through difficult questions
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