mill

«mill» in Mova's school dictionary: a building with machines for grinding grain into flour… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a mill, mills); verb (mill, mills, milled, milling)

meaning for a pupil

1) A mill is a building with machines for grinding grain into flour, often powered by wind or water. tree →

2) A factory where things like cotton, paper or steel are made. tree →

3) A small machine for grinding, such as a pepper mill. tree →

4) To mill around is to move about in a crowd without going anywhere special. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in history (windmills, watermills, cotton mills in the Industrial Revolution), science (wind and water power), cooking (pepper mill). Phrases: «run-of-the-mill» (ordinary), «go through the mill» (have a hard time), «mill around».

examples

• The old water mill ground wheat into flour. tree →
• Workers in the cotton mill worked long hours. tree →
• Grind some pepper with the pepper mill. tree →
• Fans milled around outside the stadium. tree →
• It was just a run-of-the-mill day. tree →
• The windmill's sails turned in the breeze. tree →
• There he sees a mill[381] standing. tree →

note

Countable as a noun. Miller = a person who runs a mill. «Run-of-the-mill» = ordinary. Do not confuse with «mil» (short for millilitre or a thousandth).

In the corpora

• Windmills and watermills once ground grain between big stones; today most flour is made in huge roller mills.
• The crushed cane stems left over are burned to power the sugar mills.
• The Mill Lane kids had a war with Station Road, and nobody could remember how it started.
• Jake lives on Station Road but goes to school with the Mill Lane kids, so both sides called him a traitor.
• Next year Mill Lane win 2–1 and Sam scores.

Trees and pragmatics

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