Wheels vs Mill - What's the difference?
wheels | mill |
(by meronymy) An automobile or other vehicle
:* Like my new wheels ?
:* rolling 18 wheels
(bodybuilding, slang) Well-developed thigh muscles.
* 1999 March 22, “OB205”, "Re: Freakiest Bodybuilder?", misc.fitness.weights, Usenet
* 2004 December 28, Mark Jenkins and Jeff O’Connell, The Jump Off: 60 Days to a Hip-Hop Hard Body , page 76, HarperCollins
* 2006 April 30, Jim Stoppani, Encyclopedia of Muscle & Strength , page 131, Human Kinetics Publishers
(wheel)
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.
As nouns the difference between wheels and mill
is that wheels is plural of lang=en while mill is a grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.As verbs the difference between wheels and mill
is that wheels is third-person singular of wheel while mill is to grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.As a proper noun Mill is
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English
Noun
(head) (plural )- Martin: Just for legs, Tom Platz in his heyday has never been approached.
- OB205: I totally agree with this, even to this day no one can beat those WHEELS !
- But Mary J. goes all-out during big leg day, and look at her wheels —toned but very feminine.
- ... try this big wheels program to pack on muscle to your quads and hams.
See also
* gunsVerb
(head)Anagrams
*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)