Mill vs. Meal

Mill vs. Meal — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Mill and Meal

Millnoun

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

Pepper has a stronger flavor when it is ground straight from a mill.

Mealnoun

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

Breakfast is the morning meal, lunch is the noon meal, and dinner, or supper, is the evening meal.

Millnoun

The building housing such a grinding apparatus.

My grandfather worked in a mill.

Mealnoun

Food served or eaten as a repast.

Millnoun

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 cider mill; a cane mill

Mealnoun

(obsolete) A time or an occasion.

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Millnoun

A machine for grinding and polishing.

a lapidary mill

Mealnoun

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

Millnoun

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

Mealnoun

A speck or spot.

Millnoun

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

a steel mill

Mealnoun

A part; a fragment; a portion.

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Millnoun

A building housing such a plant.

Mealverb

To yield or be plentiful in meal.

Millnoun

(figurative) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation routinely, such as a divorce mill, etc.

Mealverb

(transitive) To defile or taint.

Millnoun

(figurative) An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised

Mealnoun

the food served and eaten at one time

Millnoun

(informal) An engine.

Mealnoun

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

Millnoun

(informal) A boxing match, fistfight.

Mealnoun

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

Millnoun

(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.

Millnoun

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

Millnoun

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

Millnoun

A milling cutter.

Millnoun

A treadmill.

Millnoun

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

Millnoun

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

Millnoun

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

Millnoun

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

Millnoun

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

Millverb

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

to mill flour

Millverb

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

Millverb

(transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).

Millverb

To move about in an aimless fashion.

I didn't have much to do, so I just milled around the town looking at the shops.

Millverb

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

to mill cattle

Millverb

To swim underwater.

Millverb

To swim suddenly in a new direction.

Millverb

To beat; to pound.

Millverb

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

Millverb

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

Millverb

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

Millverb

(intransitive) To undergo hulling.

This maize mills well.

Millverb

To take part in a fistfight; to box.

Millverb

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

Millverb

To commit burglary.

Millverb

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

Millverb

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

Millnoun

a plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing

Millnoun

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

Millnoun

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

Millnoun

machine that processes materials by grinding or crushing

Millnoun

the act of grinding to a powder or dust

Millverb

move about in a confused manner

Millverb

grind with a mill;

mill grain

Millverb

produce a ridge around the edge of;

mill a coin

Millverb

roll out (metal) with a rolling machine