The term "mill", depending on context, can refer to: - Mill (factory) – a place of business for making articles of manufacture; e.g. a textile mill is a factory for making textiles, a sawmill cuts timber, a steel mill manufactures steel, a sugar mill (also called a sugar refinery) processes sugar beets or sugar cane into various finished products. The term mill was once in common use for a factory (perhaps because many factories in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution were water powered like the then much more familiar traditional flour mill - see watermill below), but nowadays it is only used in a few specific contexts.
- Mill (grinding) – a mill powered by wind (windmill), water (watermill), or an animal (horse mill, treadwheel) for the grinding or pulverizing of raw materials; e.g. wheat, with the help of mill stones, or an oil mill (see also: expeller, extruder, vegetable oil).
- Milling machines are metalworking machines that operate by moving a cutting bit.
- James Mill – an Scottish historian, economist and philosopher
- John Stuart Mill – an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century
- Nine Men's Morris – a traditional board game; the term "mill" may also mean "three (playing pieces) in a row" within the game
- Mill (Netherlands) – a town in the municipality of Mill en Sint Hubert
- Arithmetical unit – used in the context of Charles Babbage's Analytical engine, a 19th century concept of a computer
- Mill (currency) – a tenth of a cent/penny
- Major Indoor Lacrosse League – the Indoor Lacrosse league, rebranded in 1997 as the National Lacrosse League
- Mill, short for Windmill, a power move in breakdancing.
- The Mill, visual effects company
See also: mil A factory (previously manufactory) is a large industrial building where goods or products are manufactured. ...
This article or section should include material from Saw mill A sawmill is a facility where logs are cut into boards. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Lumber. ...
A steel mill at the turn of the century in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania A steel mill (British English and Australian English steelworks) is an industrial plant for the manufacture of steel. ...
The old steel cable of a colliery winding tower Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon being the primary alloying material. ...
Two sugar beets - the one on the left has been cultivated to be smoother than the traditional beet, so that it traps less soil. ...
Two sugar beets - the one on the left has been cultivated to be smoother than the traditional beet, so that it traps less soil. ...
Species Ref: ITIS 42058 as of 2004-05-05 Sugarcane is one of six species of a tall tropical southeast Asian grass (Family Poaceae) having stout fibrous jointed stalks whose sap at one time was the primary source of sugar. ...
The Industrial Revolution was the major technological, socioeconomic and cultural change in the late 18th and early 19th century resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labour to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture. ...
Watermill of Braine-le-Château, Belgium (XII th century. ...
A grinding mill is a unit operation designed to break a solid material into smaller pieces. ...
Pitstone Windmill, believed to be the oldest windmill in the British Isles A modern day windmill as seen on the Rotar farm in California. ...
Watermill of Braine-le-Château, Belgium (XII th century. ...
A horse-mill is a mill that uses a horse as the power source. ...
What is a treadwheel? A treadwheel is a form of Animal engine powered by man. ...
The word grinding can mean many things: Grinding is a manufacturing process that uses friction with a rough surface to wear away or smooth the surface of a work piece. ...
Species T. boeoticum T. durum T. monococcum T. spelta References: ITIS 42236 2002-09-22 Wheat (Triticum spp. ...
Mill stones are used in windmills and watermills for grinding wheat or other grains. ...
A continuous feed method where oil is squeezed from the raw material in one step under high pressure. ...
Extrusion is a manufacturing process where a billet of material is pushed and/or drawn though a die to create a shaped rod, rail or pipe. ...
Vegetable oil or vegoil is fat extracted from plant sources, known as oil plants. ...
Cutters for a milling machine. ...
Turned chess pieces Metalworking is the craft and practice of working with metals to create parts or structures. ...
James Mill James Mill (April 6, 1773 - June 23, 1836), historian and philosopher, was born at Northwater Bridge, in the parish of Logie-Pert, Forfarshire, the son of James Mill, a shoemaker. ...
John Stuart Mill (May 20, 1806 â May 8, 1873), an English philosopher and political economist, was an influential classical liberal thinker of the 19th century. ...
Nine Mens Morris is a two-player strategy game with a long history in Europe. ...
Mill en Sint Hubert is a municipality in the southern Netherlands. ...
The arithmetic logic unit/arithmetic-logic unit (ALU) of a computers CPU is a part of the execution unit, a core component of all CPUs. ...
The analytical engine, an important step in the history of computers, is the design of a mechanical modern general-purpose computer by the British professor of mathematics Charles Babbage. ...
The mill or mille(â¥) (sometimes mil in the UK) is an abstract unit of currency. ...
The National Lacrosse League (NLL) is the professional league of mens indoor lacrosse in North America. ...
The Dive Shot. A womens lacrosse player carries the ball past a defender. ...
The Windmill (or briefly Mill) is one of the most well-known power moves in breakdancing. ...
Breakdancing incorporates a wide variety of funky and impressive moves that can vary as widely as a breakers imagination and athleticism will allow. ...
Breakdancing, also known as breaking and b-boying by its practitioners and followers, is a street dance style that evolved as part of the hip hop movement in the South Bronx of New York City during the early 1970s. ...
The Mill is a post production and visual effects company based in London. ...
Mil can refer to a number of different things. ...
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