Mill vs Pill - What's the difference?

As a proper noun mill

is .

As a noun pill is

a small, usually cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication or pill can be the peel or skin or pill can be an inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.

As a verb pill is

(textiles) of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber or pill can be (label) to peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.

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") * ----

pill

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) or (etyl) pille (whence (etyl) pil), probably from (etyl) pilula.

Noun

(en noun)

A small, usually cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.

* 1864 , Benjamin Ellis, The Medical Formulary [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC14843090&id=pHoMvHRmrlIC&pg=PA170&lpg=PA170&dq=%22take+two+pills%22&as_brr=1]

Take two pills every hour in the apyrexia of intermittent fever, until eight are taken.

(senseid) Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.

Jane went on the pill when she left for college.

She got pregnant one month after going off the pill .

* 1986 , Jurriaan Plesman, Getting Off the Hook: Treatment of Drug Addiction and Social Disorders Through Body and Mind :

Many specialists are requesting that this vitamin be included in all contraceptive pills, as women on the pill have a tendency to be depressed.

(slang) A comical or entertaining person.

(slang) A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.

* {{quote-book, year=1960

, author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter IV , passage=You see, he's egging Phyllis on to marry Wilbert Cream. [...] And when a man like that eggs, something has to give, especially when the girl's a pill like Phyllis, who always does what Daddy tells her.}}

* 2000 , Susan Isaacs, Shining Through [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0061030155&id=6_1FJWFEYGoC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=%22a+real+pill%22&sig=RCUR5O3MhNXeq8rMOnx9-LR5Mfo]

Instead, I saw a woman in her mid-fifties, who was a real pill ; while all the others had managed a decent “So pleased,” or even a plain “Hello,” Ginger just inclined her head, as if she was doing a Queen Mary imitation.

(informal) A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile by rubbing.

* 1999 , Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0060987561&id=LOYeA9GmrEwC&pg=PA201&lpg=PA201&dq=%22sweater+pills%22&sig=U11GOkTpfHlqyGyIdk7ZNZ0GNuI]

One sleeve, threadbare and loaded with what my mother called “sweater pills ,” hung halfway to the floor.

A baseball.

* 2002 , John Klima, Pitched Battle: 35 of Baseball's Greatest Duels from the Mound [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0786412038&id=G126RsLD3MsC&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=%22threw+the+pill%22&sig=NmyoxWN_bP5AHc9imVPMTxY7lvw]

Mr. Fisher contributed to the Sox effort when he threw the pill past second baseman Rath after Felsch hit him a comebacker.

(firearms) (informal) a bullet (projectile)

Synonyms

* (small object for swallowing) tablet

Derived terms

* bitter pill to swallow * blue pill * chill pill * horse pill * morning-after pill * on the pill * pill beetle * pill bug * pill popper * red pill * sugar pill * pop pills

Verb

(en verb)

(textiles) Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.

* 1997 , Jo Sharp, Knitted Sweater Style: Inspirations in Color [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1561581895&id=l5h-cGU5HUYC&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=sweater+pilling&sig=6gfLWBL1QHVQZmbSYhJ4oipm8Kc]

During processing, inferior short fibers (which can cause pilling and itching) are removed to enhance the natural softness of the yarn and to improve its wash-and-wear performance.

To form into the shape of a pill.

Pilling is a skill rarely used by modern pharmacists.

To medicate with pills.

She pills herself with all sorts of herbal medicines.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.

To peel; to make by removing the skin.

*(Bible), (w) xxx. 37

*:[Jacob] pilled white streaksin the rods.

To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.

(label) To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.

*:So syr Lucan departed for he was greuously wounded in many places And so as he yede he sawe and herkened by the mone lyght how that pyllars and robbers were comen in to the felde To pylle and robbe many a ful noble knyghte of brochys and bedys of many a good rynge & of many a ryche Iewel / and who that were not deed al oute

:(Spenser)

Noun

(en noun)

The peel or skin.

* Holland

Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills , as the locusts.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)

An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.

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