名詞 mill:

1. a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
   同義詞：factory, manufacturing plant, manufactory
2. Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)
   同義詞：James Mill
3. English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)
   同義詞：John Mill, John Stuart Mill
4. machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
   同義詞：grinder, milling machinery
5. the act of grinding to a powder or dust
   同義詞：grind, pulverization, pulverisation

動詞 mill:

1. move about in a confused manner
   同義詞：mill about, mill around
2. grind with a mill
3. produce a ridge around the edge of
4. roll out (metal) with a rolling machine

1. The logs are drifted downstream to the mill.
   那些原木沿河順水漂到工廠。
2. I never refuse odd jobs to supplement my income it's all grist to the mill.
   我為增加收入，對於做零活總是來者不拒--多多益善。
3. He sends his crop to a large mill instead of grinding it himself.
   他把收獲的莊稼送到大磨坊去，而不是自己碾磨。
4. He used a miller to mill the grain into flour.
   他用碾磨機把谷物磨成面粉。

mill

n.（名詞）

A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour or meal.
磨坊；磨粉廠：裝有將谷物磨成面粉或粗磨粉的機器的廠房
A device or mechanism that grinds grain.
磨臼，磨粉機：磨谷物的裝置或機械
A machine or device that reduces a solid or coarse substance into pulp or minute grains by crushing, grinding, or pressing:
研磨機：通過壓碎、碾磨或擠壓將固體或粗糙的物質(zhì)磨成漿狀物或小粒的機器或裝置：
例句：
a pepper mill.
胡椒研磨機

A machine that releases the juice of fruits and vegetables by pressing or grinding:
榨汁機：通過擠壓或碾磨榨出水果或蔬菜汁液的機器：
例句：
a cider mill.
蘋果榨汁機

A machine, such as one for stamping coins, that produces something by the repetition of a simple process.
磨機，貨幣軋齒邊機：通過重復簡單的過程制造物品的機器，如壓印錢幣的機器
A steel roller bearing a raised design, used for making a die or a printing plate by pressure.
軋模機：上有隆起的鋼制滾筒，用來壓制印模或印板
Any of various machines for shaping, cutting, polishing, or dressing metal surfaces.
軋鋼機：用來塑造、切割、打磨或修整鋼材表面的機器

A building or group of buildings equipped with machinery for processing raw materials into finished or industrial products:
制造廠：一個廠房或一組廠房，裝有將原材料制成成品或工業(yè)制成品的機器：
例句：
a textile mill; a steel mill.
紡織廠；鋼鐵廠

A building or collection of buildings that has machinery for manufacture; a factory.
工廠：一個廠房或一組廠房，裝有用來制造的機器；工廠
A process, an agency, or an institution that operates in a routine way or turns out products in the manner of a factory:
制造處，大規(guī)模出產(chǎn)品的部門：以例行公事的方式運作或如工廠般制造產(chǎn)品的機構或辦事部門：
例句：
The college was nothing more than a diploma mill.
這個學院只不過是個文憑制造廠

A slow or laborious process:
緩慢或費力的過程：
例句：
It took three years to get the bill through the legislative mill.
此項法案經(jīng)過了三年冗長的立法過程

v.（動詞）
milled,mill.ing,mills
v.tr.（及物動詞）
To grind, pulverize, or break down into smaller particles in a mill.
研磨，粉碎：用磨臼研磨或碾制成細小的顆粒
To transform or process mechanically in a mill.
磨出，以機械加工：通過研磨機而整形或制造
To shape, polish, dress, or finish in a mill or with a milling tool.
用制材模具做成形：用研磨機或通過研磨工具成形、打磨、修整或制成

To produce a ridge around the edge of (a coin).
軋邊，印邊：在（錢幣）邊上印制一圈凸起的邊
To groove or flute the rim of (a coin or other metal object).
印出溝槽：在（錢幣或其他金屬制品）的邊上印出溝槽的
To agitate or stir until foamy.
攪拌：將…攪動成或打成泡沫
Western U.S. To halt (a cattle stampede) by turning the lead animals in a wide arc so that they form the center of a gradually tightening spiral.
【美國西部】 使畜群繞圈子轉：通過讓領頭牲畜繞圈子以形成逐漸收緊的螺旋形中心而制止（牛群的驚跑）
v.intr.（不及物動詞）
To move around in churning confusion:
驚跑，亂闖：在旋渦般的混亂中到處移動：
例句：
.A crowd of school children milled about on the curb looking scared.(Anne Tyler)
.一群小學生在路邊四處奔跑，看上去象受了驚嚇.(安妮·泰勒)

Slang To fight with the fists; box.
【俚語】 以拳擊：用拳頭擊打；痛打
To undergo milling.
經(jīng)研磨，推磨

來源：
Middle English milne, mille
中古英語 milne, mille
from Old English mylen
源自 古英語 mylen
from Late Latin molona, molonum [from feminine and neuter of] molonus [of a mill]
源自 后期拉丁語 molona, molonum [] 源自molonus的陰性詞和中性詞 [磨坊的]
from Latin mola [millstone]
源自 拉丁語 mola [磨石]
from molere [to grind] * see mel…-
源自 molere [研磨] *參見 mel…-

<注釋>Tomill, in Western U.S. English, means .to halt a cattle stampede by turning the lead animals..In theOxford English Dictionary we find this 9th-century example of the verb: .At last the cattle ran with less energy, and it was presently easy to ‘mill’ them into a circle and to turn them where it seemed most desirable. (Munsey`s Magazine).This usage ofmill comes from the resemblance of the cattle`s circular motion to the action of millstones. A related intransitive sense of the verb is better known in Standard English: A crowd milled around in the street. Originally this sense ofmill also meant .circular motion.; now it means .to move around in churning confusion.with no pattern in particular.
Mill 這個詞在美國西部所說的英語中， 意為.通過讓領頭牲畜繞圈子跑來制止牛群的驚跑.。在牛津英語詞典 中， 我們可以找到該動詞9世紀用法的例子： .最后牛群終于跑得快沒勁兒了，這時候可以容易地驅(qū)趕頭牛，把其它牛繞進圈子里，然后把它們趕到最合適的地方去. （芒西雜志）。Mill 的這種用法來自牛群繞圈跑與磨石運作的相似之處。 該詞作不及物動詞時所具有的與此相關的意義在標準英語中更為常見： 一群人在大街上兜圈子。 Mill 的這一含義本來亦指.旋轉運動.； 現(xiàn)在它指.在旋渦般的混亂中到處移動.，不再有其它特指
<注釋>Industrial mill towns are a far cry from the small water mill grinding grain near an Anglo-Saxon settlement,but the same wordmill is used in both contexts, showing how the meaning of a word can be generalized.The Old English wordmylen, .water mill for grinding grain,. is itself adopted from Late Latinmolona or molonum, .mill,. just as the Germanic peoples, such as the Anglo-Saxons, adopted the water mill from the Romans.In Middle Englishmilne, the descendant of the Old English word, was generalized to refer to a windmill, any power-driven mill for grinding grain, and a fulling mill.But it was left for the postmedieval,increasingly industrialized world really to generalize the meaning ofmill, applying it to machines such as pepper mills and cider millsand buildings such as textile mills and steel mills.Mill town is first recorded in 847.
工業(yè)化的制造區(qū)與原來盎格魯-撒克遜人居住地附近那種靠水力推動來磨谷物的小型磨臼大不相同，但mill 這個詞對這兩種情況都適用， 這可以體現(xiàn)出某一詞匯的意思是可以有概括性的。古英語中mylen 一詞有.磨谷物的水磨.的意思， 這個詞由后期拉丁語中的molina 或 molinum 而來，意為.磨臼.， 正如日爾曼民族中的盎格魯-撒克遜人從羅馬人那里引進了水磨。中古英語中milne 一詞由古英語詞而來， 它的詞義已擴大，可指風車、任何靠動力驅(qū)動來磨谷物的磨以及縮洗機。不過在中世紀晚期，不斷發(fā)展的工業(yè)化世界真正使mill 這個詞在意義上有所擴大， 它可以指胡椒研磨機或蘋果榨汁機等機器，也可以指紡織廠或鋼鐵廠等工廠。Mill town 這個詞最早見載于847年

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n.Abbr. mi.,M.（名詞）縮寫 mi.,M.
A monetary unit equal to !/000 of a U.S. dollar or !/0 of a cent.
密爾：一種貨幣單位，等于!/000美元或!/0美分

來源：
Short for Latin mollôsimus [thousandth] * see mil
拉丁語 mollôsimus的簡寫 [千分之一] *參見 mil