Mill vs Industry - What's the difference?
mill | industry |
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.
(uncountable) The tendency to work persistently.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 12, work=BBC Sport
, title= (countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (uncountable, economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black)
, title= (in the singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Automated production of material goods{{cite web
, author=(European Parliament)
, title= *
As nouns the difference between mill and industry
is that mill is a grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc while industry is the tendency to work persistently.As a verb mill
is to grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.As a proper noun Mill
is {{surname}.mill
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)- {{quote-book, year=1914
citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=The name of the "white hope" against whom Billy was to go was sufficient to draw a fair house, and there were some there who had seen Billy in other fights and looked for a good mill . }}
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") * ----industry
English
(wikipedia industry)Noun
International friendly: England 1-0 Spain, passage=England's win was built on industry and discipline, epitomised by the performances of Manchester City's Joleon Lescott in defence and Scott Parker in midfield.}}
End of the peer show, passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}
Internal Combustion, chapter=2 , passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries . By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
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