Mil vs Moil - What's the difference?
mil | moil |
An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to 1?6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 1?6000 and 1?6300 are used in other countries.
A unit of measurement equal to 1?1000 of an inch, usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.
a former subdivision (1/1000) of the
(informal)
* 2010 September, Galen Gondolfi, "Idea Fun(d)", , ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 79:
To toil, to work hard.
* Francis Bacon
* Dryden
* {{quote-book, passage=There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
, author=Robert W. Service
, title=(The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses)
, chapter=(The Cremation of Sam McGee)
, year=1907}}
To churn continually.
Hard work.
Confusion, turmoil.
A spot; a defilement.
* (rfdate) (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
(glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
(glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
(glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
As nouns the difference between mil and moil
is that mil is an angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to 1⁄6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 1⁄6000 and 1⁄6300 are used in other countries while moil is hard work.As a verb moil is
to toil, to work hard.mil
English
(Angular mil)Noun
(en noun)- You can get things done without money, but you can do a hell of a lot more with it, and $10 mil is a good starting point.
See also
* degree, deg * radian, rad * grad * second * minute * for abbreviation, see * mil-dotAnagrams
* (l) * (l) ----moil
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; from the Proto-Indo-European root 'mel-', 'soft'.Verb
(en verb)- Moil not too much under ground.
- Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
Noun
- The moil of death upon them.