Mill vs. Meal
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 millMealnoun
(obsolete) A time or an occasion.
Millnoun
A machine for grinding and polishing.
a lapidary millMealnoun
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 millMealnoun
A part; a fragment; a portion.
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 flourMillverb
(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 cattleMillverb
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 grainMillverb
produce a ridge around the edge of;
mill a coinMillverb
roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
