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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miller/#m1)

2) Miller is also a common family name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miller/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miller/#x1)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miller/#x2)
- The miller ground the wheat into flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miller/#x3)
- In the story, the miller's daughter had to spin straw into gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miller/#x4)
- The miller lived next to the watermill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miller/#x5)
- Farmers took their grain to the miller. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miller/#x6)
- My teacher is called Mrs Miller. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miller/#x7)
- The old miller was covered in white flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miller/#x8)
- ‘We don’t know,’ answered the miller. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miller/#x9)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miller/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.