Mill vs. Meal: What's the Difference?

A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour or meal.

The edible whole or coarsely ground grains of a cereal grass.

A device or mechanism that grinds grain.

A granular substance produced by grinding.

A building or farm equipped with machinery that presses or grinds fruit to extract the juice

The food served and eaten in one sitting.

A device or machine used to extract juice from fruit.

A customary time or occasion of eating food.

A machine or device that reduces a solid or coarse substance into pulp or minute grains by crushing, grinding, or pressing

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A building or group of buildings equipped with machinery for processing raw materials into finished or industrial products

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A machine, such as one for stamping coins, that produces something by the repetition of a simple process.

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A steel roller bearing a raised design, used for making a die or a printing plate by pressure.

(countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).

Any of various machines for shaping, cutting, polishing, or dressing metal surfaces.

(countable) Food served or eaten as a repast.

A process, agency, or institution that operates in a mechanical way or turns out products in the manner of a factory

A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.

A business that breeds and sells animals, such as purebred puppies, often in substandard conditions. Often used in combination

(obsolete) A time or an occasion.

A difficult or laborious series of experiences

The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour.

A unit of currency equal to 1/1000 of a US dollar or 1/10 of a cent.

A speck or spot.

To grind, pulverize, or break down into smaller particles in a mill

A part; a fragment; a portion.

To produce or process mechanically in a mill

To yield or be plentiful in meal.

To cut, shape, or finish in a mill or with a milling tool

(transitive) To defile or taint.

To produce a ridge around the edge of (a coin).

A part; a fragment; a portion.

To groove or flute the rim of (a coin or other metal object).

The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the act or time of eating a meal; as, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal.

Western US To cause (cattle) to move in a circle or tightening spiral in order to stop a stampede.

Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.

To move around in churning confusion

Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.

(Slang) To fight with the fists; box.

To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.

To undergo milling

To pulverize; as, mealed powder.

A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.

The food served and eaten at one time

The building housing such a grinding apparatus.

Any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times

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.

Coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse

A machine for grinding and polishing.

A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.

The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.

A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.

A building housing such a plant.

(figurative) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.

An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised

(informal) An engine.

(informal) A boxing match, fistfight.

(die sinking) 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.

(mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.

(mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.

A milling cutter.

(historical) A prison treadmill.

A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.

An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.

One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.

A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.

(trading card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.

(trading card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.

(transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.

(transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.

(transitive) 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.

(transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.

To swim underwater.

To swim suddenly in a new direction.

To beat; to pound.

To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.

(transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.

(transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.

(intransitive) To undergo hulling.

To take part in a fistfight; to box.

To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.

To commit burglary.

To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.

To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.

A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.

A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or indented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.

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; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.

A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.

A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.

A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.

A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.

An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.

A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.

A pugilistic encounter.

Short for Treadmill.

The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw.

A building or complex of buildings containing a mill{1} or other machinery to grind grains into flour.

To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.

To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.

To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.

To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.

To beat with the fists.

To roll into bars, as steel.

To swim under water; - said of air-breathing creatures.

To undergo hulling, as maize.

To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain; to move around aimlessly; - usually used with around.

To swim suddenly in a new direction; - said of whales.

To take part in a mill; to box.

To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.

To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle.

A plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing

Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)

English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)

Machine that processes materials by grinding or crushing

The act of grinding to a powder or dust

Move about in a confused manner

Grind with a mill;

Produce a ridge around the edge of;

Roll out (metal) with a rolling machine