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grime | mill | Synonyms |

Grime is a synonym of mill.


As a noun grime

is crumb, bit.

As a proper noun mill is

.

grime

English

(wikipedia grime)

Noun

(-)
  • Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=14 citation , passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall.  Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime .}}
  • (music) A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop.
  • Verb

    (grim)
  • To begrime; to cake with dirt
  • * {{quote-book, year=1862, author=Edwin Waugh, title=Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=All grimed with coaldust, they swing along the street with their dinner baskets and cans in their hands, chattering merrily.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1920, author=Harold Bindloss, title=Lister's Great Adventure, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Fog from the river rolled up the street and the windows were grimed by soot, but Cartwright had not turned on the electric light.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1918, author=Harold Bindloss, title=The Buccaneer Farmer, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=His skin was grimed with dust, for he had ridden hard in scorching heat, and was anxious and impatient to get on.}} ----

    mill

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
  • The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
  • 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.
  • A machine for grinding and polishing.
  • A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
  • A building housing such a plant.
  • An establishment that handles a certain type of situation routinely, such as a divorce mill, etc.
  • (label) an engine
  • (label) a boxing match, fistfight
  • {{quote-book, year=1914
    , year_published=2009 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burrows , title=The Mucker , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=The name of the "white hope" against whom Billy was to go was sufficient to draw a fair house, and there were some there who had seen Billy in other fights and looked for a good mill . }}
  • (label) 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.
  • (label) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
  • (label) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
  • A milling cutter.
  • (label) A card or deck that relies on the strategy of putting cards directly from the draw pile into the discard pile.
  • Synonyms
    * factory, works
    Derived terms
    {{der3, , cog mill , miller , millhouse , milling , mill race, millrace , millstone , mill wheel, millwheel , paper mill , pecker mill , pulp mill , rice mill , rolling mill , run-of-the-mill , rumor mill, rumour mill , steel mill , trouble at t' mill , watermill , windmill}}

    Etymology 2

    Ultimately from (etyl) (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An obsolete coin with value one-thousandth of a dollar, or one-tenth of a cent.
  • 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

    Etymology 3

    From the noun .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
  • (label) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
  • (label) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
  • To move about in an aimless fashion.
  • To swim underwater.
  • To beat; to pound.
  • * Rudyard Kipling
  • (Thackeray)
  • To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
  • To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
  • To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
  • (label) To place cards into the discard pile directly from the draw pile.
  • Synonyms
    * (move about in an aimless fashion) roam, wander
    Derived terms
    * millable * nonmilled * unmilled

    References

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