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mill about

/mil/US // mɪl //UK // (mɪl) //

磨坊,磨坊里的事,磨坊里的人,碾压

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, or textiles.
    • : a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour and other cereal products.
    • : a machine for grinding, crushing, or pulverizing any solid substance: a coffee mill.
    • : any of various machines that modify the shape or size of a workpiece by rotating tools or the work: rolling mill.
    • : any of various other apparatuses for shaping materials or performing other mechanical operations.
    • : a business or institution that dispenses products or services in an impersonal or mechanical manner, as if produced in a factory: a divorce mill; a diploma mill.
    • : Machinery. a cutter on a milling machine.
    • : a steel roller for receiving and transferring an impressed design, as to a calico-printing cylinder or a banknote-printing plate.
    • : Mining. a place or set of machinery for crushing or concentrating ore.
    • : Slang. a boxing match or fistfight.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to grind, work, treat, or shape in or with a mill.
    • : Coining. to make a raised edge on.to make narrow, radial grooves on the raised edge of.
    • : to beat or stir, as to a froth: to mill chocolate.
    • : Slang. to beat or strike; fight; overcome.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to move around aimlessly, slowly, or confusedly, as a herd of cattle.
    • : Slang. to fight or box.

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Examples

  • The “doctorate” Duke claims is from an anti-Semitic Ukranian “diploma mill” as described by the State Department.

  • The language school did not focus on providing instruction but instead was a visa mill.

  • Not even Radio Bemba (Cuban slang for the rumor mill) had picked up the signal.

  • Did you know that you can purchase and mill 80 percent receivers without a license?

  • Kids ranging from 17 down to elementary-school age mill about, waiting to be called by the court.

  • But men we had known and trails we had followed furnished us plenty of grist for the conversational mill.

  • Sounds rotten, but that's their style; and you've been through the mill at home enough to know what it is to be knifed socially.

  • Along in the afternoon Porter's force was located near Moore's Mill, about four miles distant.

  • The first steam rolling mill, with the exception of the one at Soho, was put up at Bradley ironworks.

  • They heard how in the early spring in the meadow by the mill-dam Tim and I had stopped our ploughs to draw lots and he had lost.