millnoun [ C ]
uk/mɪl/us/mɪl/a building where grain is crushed into flour
a small machine for crushing things into powder:
a pepper/coffee mill
a factory where a particular substance is produced:
a cotton/paper/steel mill
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- When the large cog wheel engages (with the smaller one), the mill stone will start to go round.
- A 200,000-acre forest site will be replanted with softwoods to supply the paper and pulp mill.
- Working conditions/practices in the mill have hardly changed over the last 20 years.
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Factories
- assembly line
- brewery
- cannery
- conveyor belt
- cooling tower
- industrial estate
- industrial park
- miller
- mint
- on the factory floor idiom
- pallet
- plant
- power station
- production line
- slaughterhouse
- steel mill
- sweatshop
- tannery
- the shop floor
- workshop
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Machines - general words
Idiom(s)
have been through the mill
put sb through the mill
millverb [ T ]
uk/mɪl/us/mɪl/to crush grain into flour or another substance into powder:
The grain is still milled locally.
specialized engineering to cut or shape metal, especially coins, using a special machine
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Squeezing and grinding
- compact
- compress
- compression
- concertina
- constrict
- crush
- depress
- firm
- gnash your teeth idiom
- grind
- ground
- pack
- pinch
- pound
- pulp
- pulverize
- scrunch
- shut
- shut sth in sth
- snap
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Chemistry: metals & metalworking
Patterns and shapes
Phrasal verb(s)
mill around