mill | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: grind, pulverisation, pulverization |
---|
(noun) machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing | Synonyms: grinder, milling machinery |
(noun) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing | Synonyms: factory, manufactory, manufacturing plant |
millboard | (noun) stout pasteboard used to bind books | - |
---|
milldam | (noun) dam to make a millpond to provide power for a water mill | - |
---|
millenarian | (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: chiliast, millenarist |
---|
millenarianism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarism, millenniumism |
---|
millenarism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarianism, millenniumism |
---|
millenarist | (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: chiliast, millenarian |
---|
millenary | (noun) a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years) | - |
---|
(noun) a span of 1000 years | Synonyms: millennium |
(noun) the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: millennium |
millennium | (noun) a span of 1000 years | Synonyms: millenary |
---|
(noun) (New Testament) in the Book of Revelation it is foretold that those faithful to Jesus will reign with Jesus over the earth for a thousand years; the meaning of these words have been much debated; some denominations (e.g. Jehovah's Witnesses) expect it to be a thousand years of justice and peace and happiness | - |
(noun) the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: millenary |
millenniumism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarianism, millenarism |
---|
millepede | (noun) any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs | Synonyms: milliped, millipede |
---|
miller | (noun) any of various moths that have powdery wings | Synonyms: moth miller |
---|
(noun) machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it | Synonyms: milling machine |
(noun) someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill) | - |
millerite | (noun) a yellow mineral consisting of nickel sulfide; a minor source of nickel | - |
---|
millet | (noun) small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica | - |
---|
(noun) any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine | - |
millettia | (noun) any of several tropical trees or shrubs yielding showy streaked dark reddish or chocolate-colored wood | - |
---|
milliammeter | (noun) a sensitive ammeter graduated in milliamperes | - |
---|
milliampere | (noun) one thousandth of an ampere | Synonyms: mA |
---|
milliard | (noun) a billion | - |
---|
millibar | (noun) a unit of atmospheric pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar | - |
---|
millicurie | (noun) a unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie | - |
---|
millidegree | (noun) a unit of temperature equal to one-thousandth of a degree | - |
---|
milliequivalent | (noun) one-thousandth of an equivalent | Synonyms: meq |
---|
millifarad | (noun) a unit of capacitance equal to one thousandth of a farad | - |
---|
milligram | (noun) one thousandth (1/1,000) gram | Synonyms: mg |
---|
millihenry | (noun) a unit of inductance equal to one thousandth of a henry | - |
---|
milliliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter | Synonyms: cc, cubic centimeter, cubic centimetre, mil, millilitre, ml |
---|
millilitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter | Synonyms: cc, cubic centimeter, cubic centimetre, mil, milliliter, ml |
---|
millime | (noun) 1,000 millimes equal 1 dinar in Tunisia | - |
---|
millimeter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter | Synonyms: millimetre, mm |
---|
millimetre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter | Synonyms: millimeter, mm |
---|
millimicron | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter | Synonyms: micromillimeter, micromillimetre, nanometer, nanometre, nm |
---|
milline | (noun) an advertising measure; one agate line appearing in one million copies of a publication | - |
---|
milliner | (noun) someone who makes and sells hats | Synonyms: hatmaker, hatter, modiste |
---|
millinery | (noun) hats for women; the wares sold by a milliner | Synonyms: woman's hat |
---|
(noun) shop selling women's hats | Synonyms: hat shop |
milling | (noun) corrugated edge of a coin | - |
---|
million | (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros | Synonyms: 1000000, meg, one thousand thousand |
---|
(noun) a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) | Synonyms: bazillion, billion, gazillion, jillion, trillion, zillion |
millionaire | (noun) a person whose material wealth is valued at more than a million dollars | - |
---|
millionairess | (noun) a woman millionaire | - |
---|
millionth | (noun) one part in a million equal parts | Synonyms: one-millionth |
---|
(noun) position 1,000,000 in a countable series of things | - |
milliped | (noun) any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs | Synonyms: millepede, millipede |
---|
millipede | (noun) any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs | Synonyms: millepede, milliped |
---|
milliradian | (noun) a unit of angular distance equal to one thousandth of a radian | - |
---|
millirem | (noun) a dosage of ionizing radiation equivalent to one thousandth (1/1000) of a rem | Synonyms: mrem |
---|
milliroentgen | (noun) a unit of exposure to ionizing radiation, one thousandth of a roentgen. | - |
---|
millisecond | (noun) one thousandth (10^-3) of a second | Synonyms: msec |
---|
millivolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one thousandth of a volt | Synonyms: mV |
---|
millivoltmeter | (noun) sensitive voltmeter that can measure voltage in millivolts | - |
---|
milliwatt | (noun) a unit of power equal to one thousandth of a watt | - |
---|
millpond | (noun) a pond formed by damming a stream to provide a head of water to turn a mill wheel | - |
---|
millrace | (noun) a channel for the water current that turns a millwheel | Synonyms: millrun |
---|
millrun | (noun) a channel for the water current that turns a millwheel | Synonyms: millrace |
---|
millstone | (noun) one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain | - |
---|
(noun) any load that is difficult to carry | - |
(noun) (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps | Synonyms: albatross |
millwheel | (noun) water wheel that is used to drive machinery in a mill | Synonyms: mill wheel |
---|
millwork | (noun) woodwork that has been machined at a mill | - |
---|
millwright | (noun) a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery | - |
---|