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millstone
mill·stone M0304100 (mĭl′stōn′)n.1. One of a pair of cylindrical stones used in a mill for grinding grain.2. a. A source of worry or distress: a responsibility that became a millstone.b. An obstacle to success. See Synonyms at burden.millstone (ˈmɪlˌstəʊn) n1. (Tools) one of a pair of heavy flat disc-shaped stones that are rotated one against the other to grind grain2. a heavy burden, such as a responsibility or obligation: his debts were a millstone round his neck. mill•stone (ˈmɪlˌstoʊn)
n. 1. either of a pair of circular stones between which grain or another substance is ground, as in a mill. 2. anything that grinds or crushes. 3. any heavy mental or emotional burden: a millstone around one's neck. [before 1050] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | millstone - (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps; "she was an albatross around his neck"albatrossdeterrent, hinderance, hindrance, impediment, balk, baulk, handicap, check - something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | | 2. |  millstone - any load that is difficult to carryload, loading, burden - weight to be borne or conveyed | | 3. |  millstone - one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the graingristmill - a mill for grinding grain (especially the customer's own grain)stone - building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose; "he wanted a special stone to mark the site" |
millstonenoun1. burden, weight, load, albatross, drag, affliction, dead weight, encumbrance The contract proved to be a millstone around his neck.2. grindstone, quernstone standing in a marketplace, watching a millstone grinding wheatmillstonenounA duty or responsibility that is a source of anxiety, worry, or hardship:burden, onus, tax, weight.Informal: headache.Translationsmill (mil) noun1. a machine, sometimes now electrical, for grinding coffee, pepper etc by crushing it between rough, hard surfaces. a coffee-mill; a pepper-mill. (咖啡等的)研磨機，(胡椒等的)研磨器或研磨罐 碾磨机，磨粉机 2. a building where grain is ground. The farmer took his corn to the mill. 磨坊，穀物碾磨廠 磨坊，面粉厂 3. a building where certain types of things are manufactured. A woollen-mill; a steel-mill. 製造廠 工厂 verb1. to grind or press. This flour was milled locally. 研磨，碾磨 碾磨2. (usually with about or around) (of crowds) to move about in a disorganized way. There's a huge crowd of people milling around outside. (一大群人)漫無目的走來走去 成群地乱转ˈmiller noun a person who works a grain mill. 磨坊工人 磨坊工人ˈmillstone noun1. one of the two large, heavy stones used in an old-fashioned mill for grinding grain. 石磨 磨石2. (usually with round one's/the neck) something that is a heavy burden or responsibility, and prevents easy progress. He regarded his brother as a millstone round his neck. 重擔 重担ˈmillwheel noun a wheel that provides power to a mill as it turns. 研磨輪 碾轮millstone
look through a millstoneTo have exceptional powers of perception. A millstone is opaque and thus is impossible to see through. I knew he was a dishonest person the minute I met him. I can look through a millstone, you know.See also: look, millstone, throughmillstone around (one's) neckA heavy burden. I wish I hadn't bought that house—the mortgage is a millstone around my neck.See also: around, millstone, neckweep millstonesSaid hyperbolically of one who is deemed so cold and indifferent as to be unable to cry tears. I've never seen Claire show any emotion—in fact, she probably weeps millstones. Why didn't you comfort that poor little girl? Do you weep millstones?See also: millstone, weep(as) hard as the nether millstoneTough or harsh and unlikely to submit. The phrase is Biblical in origin. That guy is as hard as the nether millstone—he'll never give you what you want in the negotiations.See also: hard, millstone, nethera millstone round (one's) neckAn extremely difficult or disadvantageous burden or hindrance. I wish I hadn't bought that house—the mortgage has been nothing but a millstone round my neck. Given the man's laundry list of scandals, he's proving to be quite a millstone round the candidate's neck.See also: millstone, neck, rounda millstone about (one's) neckAn extremely difficult or disadvantageous burden or hindrance. I wish I hadn't bought that house—the mortgage has been nothing but a millstone about my neck. Given the man's laundry list of scandals, he's proving to be quite a millstone about the candidate's neck.See also: millstone, neckmillstone about one's necka continual burden or handicap. This huge and expensive house is a millstone about my neck. Bill's inability to control his temper is a millstone about his neck.See also: millstone, neckmillstone around one's neckA heavy burden, as in Julie finds Grandma, who is crabby, a millstone around her neck. The literal hanging of a millstone about the neck is mentioned as a punishment in the New Testament (Matthew 18:6), causing the miscreant to be drowned. Its present figurative use was first recorded in a history of the Quakers (c. 1720). See also: around, millstone, necka millstone around your neck BRITISH, AMERICAN or a millstone round your neck BRITISHCOMMON If something is a millstone around your neck or a millstone round your neck, it is a very unpleasant problem or responsibility that you cannot escape from. The country's inefficient telephone company has been a millstone round the government's neck. Long-term illness can make you feel like a millstone around your family's necks. Note: Millstone is often used on its own with this meaning. There is the continuing millstone of the country's enormous foreign debt. Note: A millstone is one of a pair of very heavy round flat stones which are used to grind grain. Jesus referred to children in Matthew 18:5 by saying, `Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.' See also: around, millstone, neckhard as the nether millstone callous and unyielding. The nether millstone is the lower of the two millstones by which corn is ground. The phrase alludes to Job 41:24: ‘His heart is as firm as a stone, and as hard as a piece of the nether millstone’.See also: hard, millstone, nethera millstone round your neck a very severe impediment or disadvantage. A millstone was a large circular stone used to grind corn. The phrase alludes to a method of executing people by throwing them into deep water with a heavy stone attached to them, a fate believed to have been suffered by several early Christian martyrs.See also: millstone, neck, rounda millstone around/round somebody’s ˈneck something which limits your freedom or makes you worry: My debts are a millstone round my neck.A millstone is a very large heavy flat stone used to crush grain to make flour. This phrase refers to an old form of punishing people by tying a heavy stone around their necks and dropping them into deep water to drown.See also: around, millstone, neck, roundmillstone (around one's neck), to bear/carry aTo bear a heavy burden, literal or figurative. The idea is mentioned in the Bible in the Gospel of Matthew (18:6), as a stone to be hung around the neck of an offender who will then be drowned. Even though grain continued for many centuries to be ground by using a pair of heavy circular stones, by the sixteenth century the term was also being used figuratively for an emotional or mental burden. Jeremy Bentham used it in his treatise on usury (1787): “The millstone intended for the necks of those vermin . . . the dealers in corn, was found to fall upon the heads of the consumers.” See also: bear, carry, millstonemillstone
millstone one of a pair of heavy flat disc-shaped stones that are rotated one against the other to grind grain Millstone a round, dressed natural or artificial stone; the working part of a set of millstones, which hulls glumaceous crops and mills grain and other materials. Millstones working in pairs were widespread in the third and fourth centuries B.C.; prior to that grain was ground in mortars. Millstones were originally turned by humans or animals, but when they became larger in size they came to be powered by water and wind. Millstones are made of one or several pieces (natural) or small particles (artificial) of rock. Hard types of rock such as quartzite (the best), sandstone, and granite are used for natural millstones; artificial millstones are made of crushed flint, quartzite, and emery or a mixture of emery and flint, cemented together by magnesium chloride or caustic magne-site. On their working surfaces millstones have grooves, the edges of which are the cutting parts. Millstones with sharp edges split grain particles more rapidly. A. IA. SOKOLOV millstone[′mil‚stōn] (petrology) buhrstone LegalSeeMillFinancialSeemillmillstone
Synonyms for millstonenoun burdenSynonyms- burden
- weight
- load
- albatross
- drag
- affliction
- dead weight
- encumbrance
noun grindstoneSynonymsSynonyms for millstonenoun a duty or responsibility that is a source of anxiety, worry, or hardshipSynonyms- burden
- onus
- tax
- weight
- headache
Synonyms for millstonenoun (figurative) something that hinders or handicapsSynonymsRelated Words- deterrent
- hinderance
- hindrance
- impediment
- balk
- baulk
- handicap
- check
noun any load that is difficult to carryRelated Wordsnoun one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grainRelated Words |