Mill vs Drill - What's the difference?
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A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process.
A machine for grinding and polishing.
A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
A building housing such a plant.
An establishment that handles a certain type of situation routinely, such as a divorce mill, etc.
(label) an engine
(label) a boxing match, fistfight
(label) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
(label) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
(label) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
A milling cutter.
(label) A card or deck that relies on the strategy of putting cards directly from the draw pile into the discard pile.
An obsolete coin with value one-thousandth of a dollar, or one-tenth of a cent.
One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
(label) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
(label) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
(label) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
To move about in an aimless fashion.
To swim underwater.
To beat; to pound.
* Rudyard Kipling
To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
(label) To place cards into the discard pile directly from the draw pile.
To create (a hole) by removing material with a (tool).
To practice, especially in a military context.
(ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
* Macaulay
To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
To hit or kick with a lot of power.
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(slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
(obsolete) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on .
* Addison
(obsolete) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
* Jonathan Swift
A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
A row of seed sown in a furrow.
An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise).
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Any of several molluscs, of the genus , that drill holes in the shells of other animals.
(Ocenebrinae)
An Old World monkey of West Africa, , similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
As a proper noun mill
is .As a noun drill is
drill, exercise.mill
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Noun
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Synonyms
* factory, worksDerived terms
{{der3, , cog mill , miller , millhouse , milling , mill race, millrace , millstone , mill wheel, millwheel , paper mill , pecker mill , pulp mill , rice mill , rolling mill , run-of-the-mill , rumor mill, rumour mill , steel mill , trouble at t' mill , watermill , windmill}}Etymology 2
Ultimately from (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (one thousandth part) permille,Coordinate terms
* (one thousandth part) * percent * basis pointDerived terms
* millageEtymology 3
From the noun .Verb
(en verb)- (Thackeray)
Synonyms
* (move about in an aimless fashion) roam, wanderDerived terms
* millable * nonmilled * unmilledReferences
* *External links
* (wikipedia "mill") * ----drill
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- Drill a small hole to start the screw in the right direction.
- They drilled daily to learn the routine exactly.
- The sergeant was up by 6:00 every morning, drilling his troops.
- He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers.
- The instructor drilled into us the importance of reading the instructions.
- Drill deeper and you may find the underlying assumptions faulty.
- He did get their attention when he drilled the ball dead center into the hole for an opening birdie.
- Without compromising he drilled the ball home, leaving Dynamos' ill-fated keeper diving for fresh air.
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- Is this going to take long? I've got a hot date to drill the flautist at the symphony tonight.'' - Brian Griffin, ''
- waters drilled through a sandy stratum
- (Thomson)
- She drilled him on to five-and-fifty, and will drop him in his old age
- This accident hath drilled away the whole summer.
Noun
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- Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills .