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

2) A factory where things like cotton, paper or steel are made. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/#m2)

3) A small machine for grinding, such as a pepper mill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/#m3)

4) To mill around is to move about in a crowd without going anywhere special. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/#x1)
- Workers in the cotton mill worked long hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/#x2)
- Grind some pepper with the pepper mill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/#x3)
- Fans milled around outside the stadium. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/#x4)
- It was just a run-of-the-mill day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/#x5)
- The windmill's sails turned in the breeze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/#x6)
- There he sees a mill[381] standing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/8/)
- [The crushed cane stems left over are burned to power the sugar mills.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/11/)
- [The Mill Lane kids had a war with Station Road, and nobody could remember how it started.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/0/)
- [Jake lives on Station Road but goes to school with the Mill Lane kids, so both sides called him a traitor.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/5/)
- [Next year Mill Lane win 2–1 and Sam scores.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mill» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mill/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.