mill

noun

/mɪl/

Idioms

a building fitted with equipment for grinding grain into flour; a machine for grinding grain磨坊；面粉厂
- The old mill has been converted into apartments.旧磨坊已被改造成公寓。
- The mill can be seen grinding wheat.能看见磨粉机在碾磨小麦。
- The river was harnessed to drive many mills.利用这条河来驱动许多台磨粉机。
see also watermill, windmillTopics Buildingsc1, Farmingc1
Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- corn
- flour
- grain
- …
verb + mill
- operate
- convert
- restore
- …
mill + verb
- grind something
mill + noun
- stone
- wheel
(often in compounds常构成复合词) a factory that produces a particular type of material工厂；制造厂
- a cotton/cloth/steel/paper mill纱厂；纺织厂；钢厂；造纸厂
- mill owners/workers工厂主；工人
- a textile/woollen mill纺织/羊毛厂
- a northern mill town北方的一个工业城镇
Synonyms factory
factory
- plant
- mill
- works
- yard
- workshop
- foundry
These are all words for buildings or places where things are made or where industrial processes take place.
- factory a building or group of buildings where goods are made, mainly by machine:
  a chocolate/cigarette/clothing factory巧克力厂；香烟厂；制衣厂
- plant a factory or place where power is produced or an industrial process takes place:
  a nuclear power plant核电厂
  a manufacturing plant制造厂
- mill a factory that produces a particular type of material:
  a cotton/paper/textile/woollen mill棉纺厂；造纸厂；纺织厂；毛纺厂
- works (often in compounds) a place where things are made or an industrial process takes place:
  a brickworks砖厂
  a steelworks炼钢厂
  Raw materials were carried to the works by barge.原材料由驳船运到工厂。
- yard (usually in compounds) an area of land used for building something:
  a shipyard船坞
- workshop a room or building in which things are made or repaired using hand tools or machinery (usually individual items or small numbers of items):
  a car repair workshop汽车修理厂
- foundry a factory where metal or glass is melted and made into different shapes or objects:
  an iron foundry铸铁厂
Patterns
- a car/chemical/munitions factory/plant
- an engineering plant/works
- to manage/run a factory/plant/mill/works/yard/workshop/foundry
- to work in/at a factory/plant/mill/yard/workshop/foundry
- factory/mill/foundry owners/managers/workers
see also content mill, rolling mill, rumour mill, sawmillTopics Businessc1
Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- cotton
- feed
- jute
- …
verb + mill
- operate
- own
- run
- …
mill + verb
- produce something
mill + noun
- town
- buildings
- hand
- …
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(often in compounds常构成复合词) a small machine for grinding a solid substance into powder磨粉机；磨面机
- a pepper mill胡椒研磨器
see also run-of-the-mill, treadmill

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

Idioms

go through the mill | put somebody through the mill

to have or make somebody have a difficult time（使）陷于困境；于某人为难
- They really put me through the mill in my interview.他们在我的采访中真的让我很痛苦。

(all) grist to the/somebody’s mill (British English)

(North American English (all) grist for the/somebody’s mill)

something that is useful to somebody for a particular purpose对…有用的东西（或有利的事）
- Political sex scandals are all grist to the mill of the tabloid newspapers.政界的性丑闻对通俗小报总是多多益善。