different between windmill vs mill

English

Etymology

From Middle English windmille, windmelle, windmulle, windmilne, wyndemylne, from Old English *windmylen, equivalent to wind +? mill. Cognate with Scots wyndmyln, wyndmyl, Saterland Frisian Wiendmäälne, West Frisian wynmûne, Dutch windmolen, Afrikaans windmeul, Dutch Low Saxon windmölle (Achterhooks), wiendmeule (Drents, Veluws), German Low German Windmöhl, German Windmühle, Danish vindmølle, Norwegian Bokmål vindmølle, Norwegian Nynorsk vindmølle, vindmylne, Swedish vindmölla, Icelandic vindmylla.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?w?nd.m?l/

Noun

windmill (plural windmills)

1. A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.
2. The structure containing such machinery.
3. A child's toy consisting of vanes mounted on a stick that rotate when blown by a person or by the wind.
4. (basketball) A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop.
5. (baseball) A pitch where the pitcher swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball.
6. A guitar move where the strumming hand mimics a turning windmill.
7. A breakdancing move in which the dancer rolls his/her torso continuously in a circular path on the floor, across the upper chest, shoulders and back, while twirling the legs in a V shape in the air.
8. Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Byasa, the wings of which resemble the vanes of a windmill.
9. (juggling) The false shower.
10. (figuratively) An imaginary enemy, but presented as real.

Synonyms

• (child's toy): pinwheel
• (imaginary enemy): straw man

Hypernyms

• (machinery): machine
• (child's toy): toy

Hyponyms

• (child's toy): hand windmill

Derived terms

• tilt at windmills

Translations

Verb

windmill (third-person singular simple present windmills, present participle windmilling, simple past and past participle windmilled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To rotate with a sweeping motion.

   She ran down the hill, windmilling her arms with glee.

   • 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, 2005, Chapter 2, p. 59,^[1]

     The main thing now was to find the steering wheel. At first, Billy windmilled his arms, hoping to find it by luck.

   • 2005, Gideon Defoe, The Pirates!: in an adventure with Ahab, page 140

     As the Pirate Captain strained at the ham, the whale began to spasm and buck about in the water. Its tail thrashed wildly up and down. Its flippers windmilled in the air uselessly.

2. (intransitive) Of a rotating part of a machine, to (become disengaged and) rotate freely.

   The axle broke and the wheel windmilled in place briefly before careening through the wall.

   • 2000, Walter J. Boyne, Philip Handleman, Brassey's Air Combat Reader, page 18

     When he went to switch on his rotary engine again, the Le Rhone refused to pick up. Nothing happened! The propeller simply windmilled in the slip stream. Garros knew immediately what was wrong and cursed himself for his imbecility.

   • 2006, James R. Hansen, First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, page 134

     […] the propeller blade on number-four engine windmilled in the air stream. "I wasn't too concerned about it, really," recalls Butchart. "B-29 engines are not all that dependable."

Quotations

• 1978, Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in the long grass, page 97:

  The engine windmilled in the afternoon heat for a few seconds, then gargled to a reluctant death.

Translations

Related terms

• mill
• molinology

See also

• windpump
• wind turbine

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?l, IPA^(key): /m?l/, [m??]
• Rhymes: -?l
• Homophone: mil

Etymology 1

From Middle English mille, milne, from Old English mylen, from Proto-Germanic *mul?n? or *mul?naz (“mill”), from Late Latin mol?num or mol?nus (“mill”), from Latin mol? (“grind, mill”, verb), closely allied to Proto-Germanic *muljan? (“to crush, grind”) (see English millstone). Perhaps cognate with Milne (a surname). Doublet of moulin.

Noun

mill (plural mills)

1. A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.

2. The building housing such a grinding apparatus.

3. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process.

4. A machine for grinding and polishing.

5. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
6. A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.

7. A building housing such a plant.
8. (figuratively) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.
9. (figuratively, derogatory) An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
10. (informal) An engine.
11. (informal) A boxing match, fistfight.
12. (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
13. (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
14. (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
15. A milling cutter.
16. (historical) A prison treadmill.
    • 1837, James Williams, A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834 (page 9)

      Next morning they put me on the treadmill along with the others: At first, not knowing how to dance it, I cut all my shin with the steps; they did not flog me then — […] They keep on putting her on the mill for a week, and flog her every time […]

17. (CB radio slang) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
    • 1941, QST (volume 25, issues 2-6, page 90)

      In other words, get a mill in your operating position by hook or crook and use it regularly. At the N.C.R. Radio Schools touch typing is taught at the same time code proficiency is advanced.

    • 1986, Ham Radio Magazine (volume 19, page 66)

      You can read it all right, but the pencil seems to be getting a little sluggish — better make a grab for a "mill."

Synonyms

• (plant, building): factory, works

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: miri
• ? Hindi: ??? (mil)

Translations

Verb

mill (third-person singular simple present mills, present participle milling, simple past and past participle milled)

1. (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.

2. (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
3. (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
4. (intransitive, followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.

   • The deer and the pig and the nilghai were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius, while the Eaters of Flesh skirmished round its edge.

5. (transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.

6. (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
7. (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
8. (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, The Madness of Private Ortheris

     Ortheris said nothing for a while. Then he unslung his belt, heavy with the badges of half a dozen regiments that his own had lain with, and handed it over to Mulvaney.
     "I'm too little for to mill you, Mulvaney," said he, "an' you've strook me before; but you can take an' cut me in two with this 'ere if you like."

   • 1862, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Adventures of Philip

     […] he had “milled” a policeman

9. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
10. (transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
11. (transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
12. (intransitive) To undergo hulling.

13. (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.
14. (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
15. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To commit burglary.

Synonyms

• (move about in an aimless fashion): roam, wander

Derived terms

• millable
• nonmilled
• unmilled

Translations

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Latin millesimum.

Noun

mill (plural mills)

1. An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
2. One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.

Synonyms

• (one thousandth part): permille, ‰, ?

Coordinate terms

• (one thousandth part):
• percent
• basis point

Derived terms

• millage

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

mill (plural mill)

1. (informal) Alternative form of mil (“million”)

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mill (plural mills)

1. A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.

Etymology 5

Back-formation from millstone, name of a Magic: The Gathering card with this effect (first printed 1994).

Alternative forms

• Mill (in the sense of "a strategy")

Verb

mill (third-person singular simple present mills, present participle milling, simple past and past participle milled)

1. (transitive, collectible card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
2. (transitive, Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.

Synonyms

• (Hearthstone): burn

Derived terms

• self-mill

Noun

mill (countable and uncountable, plural mills)

1. (collectible card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
2. (collectible card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.

Derived terms

• Mill Rogue

Translations

References

• mill in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• mill in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Further reading

• mill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mill in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Albanian

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Albanian *meila (“fastening (of a knife)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to attach, fasten”).

Noun

mill m (indefinite plural mille, definite singular milli, definite plural millet)

1. sheath

Declension

References

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin milium.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?mi?/

Noun

mill m (plural mills)

1. millet

Derived terms

• mill del sol

Further reading

• “mill” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mill” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “mill” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mill” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [m?i?l?], [m??l?]

Etymology 1

From Old Irish millid (“spoils, ruins, destroys”)

Verb

mill (present analytic milleann, future analytic millfidh, verbal noun milleadh, past participle millte)

1. (transitive, intransitive) spoil; mar, ruin
   1. ravish

Conjugation

Etymology 2

Noun

mill f (genitive singular mille, nominative plural milleanna)

1. Alternative form of meill (“flabby, loose, skin; blubber lip; unshapely mouth”)
2. (botany) pendant bud or flower

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "mill" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “millid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “mill” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “mill” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Manx

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?l/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish millid (“spoils, ruins, destroys”). Cognate with Irish mill and Scottish Gaelic mill.

Verb

mill (past vill, future independent millee, verbal noun milley, past participle millit)

1. destroy, ruin
2. spoil, tarnish
3. (as vision) blur
4. disfigure
5. corrupt
6. mess, tumble, rustle

Etymology 2

From Old Irish mil, from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Irish mil, Scottish Gaelic mil, Latin mel, Ancient Greek ???? (méli). Akin to millish and blass.

Noun

mill m (genitive singular molley, plural millyn)

1. honey

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “mil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi??/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish millid (“spoils, ruins, destroys”)

Verb

mill (past mhill, future millidh, verbal noun milleadh, past participle millte)

1. destroy, spoil, ruin

Etymology 2

Noun

mill m

1. inflection of meall:
   1. genitive singular
   2. plural

Mutation

Further reading

• “mill” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “millid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Wiradhuri

Alternative forms

• mil

Noun

mill

1. (anatomy) eye

Yagara

Noun

mill

1. Alternative form of mil.

References

• State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Turubul Body Parts.