搜尋結果
mill
- IPA[mɪl]
英式
- a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour.;a piece of machinery for grinding grain
- grind (something) in a mill;cut or shape (metal) with a rotating tool
verb: mill, 3rd person present: mills, gerund or present participle: milling, past tense: milled, past participle: milled
noun: mill, plural noun: mills
- 釋義
- 片語
名詞
- 1. a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour. 同義詞
- ▪ a piece of machinery for grinding grain a direct steam-driven flour mill
- ▪ a domestic device for grinding a solid substance to powder a pepper mill 同義詞
- 2. a factory fitted with machinery for a particular manufacturing process a steel mill a mill town
- ▪ a piece of manufacturing machinery.
- 3. informal an engine.
- 4. informal, dated a boxing match or a fist fight.
動詞
- 1. grind (something) in a mill hard wheats are easily milled into white flour
- 2. cut or shape (metal) with a rotating tool in the machine shop we mill and grind the castings
- ▪ produce regular ribbed markings on the edge of (a coin) as a protection against illegal clipping gold and silver coins were milled in order to prevent unscrupulous persons from shaving off the edges
- 3. (of people or animals) move around in a confused mass tourists were milling about in the lobby
- 4. thicken (wool or another animal fibre) by fulling it ordinary wool blankets are made by milling a woven wool fabric