Mill vs X - What's the difference?
mill | x |
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.
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a proper noun mill
is .As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.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)