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mill
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- pronunciation:
- mIl
- features:
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noun |
| definition 1: |
A mill is a place where people make flour from the seeds of certain plants that farmers grow. Wheat, corn, and rice are some of these kinds of plants. Their seeds are called grain. Farmers bring their grain to the mill, and the mill crushes the grain to make flour.
Old mills were often built next to a river. The power of the moving water turned the stone wheels that crushed the grain in the mill.- similar words:
- factory, plant
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| definition 2: |
A mill can also be a factory that makes things that people use to build or make other things. Some mills make steel, and steel can be used to make other things like bridges or cars. Some mills make paper. Some mills make wood for building things, and others make fabric for making things like clothes or curtains or sheets.
My class at school visited a paper mill. They make many kinds of paper there, like paper for writing, paper for drawing, and paper for signs and cards. Maybe all the paper in my house was made there!- similar words:
- factory, plant, works
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| related words: |
work |
| derivation: |
millable (adj.) |
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