miller

«miller» in Mova's judaism dictionary: a person who owns or works in a mill, grinding grain into… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a miller, millers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A miller is a person who owns or works in a mill, grinding grain into flour. tree →

2) Miller is also a common family name. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and stories, the miller worked at a windmill or watermill in the village; many fairy tales have a miller or a miller's daughter (Rumpelstiltskin). The family name Miller comes from this job.

examples

• Miller farther says: "The discovery of zero, as used above, implies its use in positional arithmetic. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• Miller calls attention to the recent change of view in reference to several im- portant qnestions in the history of elementary mathematics. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• The miller ground the wheat into flour. tree →
• In the story, the miller's daughter had to spin straw into gold. tree →
• The miller lived next to the watermill. tree →
• Farmers took their grain to the miller. tree →
• My teacher is called Mrs Miller. tree →
• The old miller was covered in white flour. tree →
• ‘We don’t know,’ answered the miller. tree →

note

Countable. Names that come from jobs: Miller, Baker, Smith, Taylor. Capital M for the name.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «miller» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.