[mɪl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour

- a factory fitted with machinery for a particular manufacturing process
(e.g: a steel mill)

- an engine

- a boxing match or a fist fight


Phrases:
- go through the mill
- put someone through the mill

Origin:
Old English mylen, based on late Latin molinum, from Latin mola ‘grindstone, mill’, from molere ‘to grind’

[mɪl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- grind (something) in a mill
(e.g: hard wheats are easily milled into white flour)

- cut or shape (metal) with a rotating tool
(e.g: in the machine shop we mill and grind the castings)

- (of people or animals) move around in a confused mass
(e.g: tourists were milling about in the lobby)

- thicken (wool or another animal fibre) by fulling it
(e.g: ordinary wool blankets are made by milling a woven wool fabric)


Phrases:
- go through the mill
- put someone through the mill

Origin:
Old English mylen, based on late Latin molinum, from Latin mola ‘grindstone, mill’, from molere ‘to grind’

[mɪl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a monetary unit used only in calculations, worth one thousandth of a dollar


Phrases:

Origin:
late 18th century: from Latin millesimum ‘thousandth part’; compare with cent