Mill vs Mell - What's the difference?

mill | mell |

As a proper noun mill

is .

As an adjective mell is

soft.

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

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(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

* *

External links

* (wikipedia "mill") * ----

mell

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) melen, .

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

(en verb)

To speak; converse; tell; say.

Noun

(en noun)

Discourse; conversation.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) mellen, from (etyl) meller, , (l).

Verb

(en verb)

(archaic) To deal, concern oneself; to interfere or meddle.

*c. 1495 , (John Skelton), "Vppon a deedman's hed":

*:For wher so we dwell / Deth wyll us qwell / And with us mell .

* 1819 , , Ivanhoe , ch. 32,

“By Saint Thomas of Kent,” said he, “an I buckle to my gear, I will teach thee, sir lazy lover, to mell with thine own matters, maugre thine iron case there!”

Etymology 3

See mellifluous.

Noun

(-)

(obsolete) honey

* Warner

Ev'n such as neither wanton seeme, nor waiward, mell , nor gall.

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