figure vs mill

figure

verb
  • To embellish. 

  • To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize. 

  • To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords. 

  • To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem. 

  • To enter into; to be a part of. 

  • To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon. 

  • To embellish with design; to adorn with figures. 

  • To come to understand. 

  • To be reasonable. 

noun
  • A visible pattern as in wood or cloth. 

  • A number, an amount. 

  • A drawing or diagram conveying information. 

  • A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body. 

  • A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment. 

  • The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term. 

  • A figure of speech. 

  • The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person. 

  • A person or thing representing a certain consciousness. 

  • A numeral. 

  • A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses. 

  • Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression. 

  • The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body. 

  • A shape. 

  • Any complex dance moveᵂ. 

mill

verb
  • To undergo hulling. 

  • To take part in a fistfight; to box. 

  • To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile. 

  • To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth. 

  • To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning. 

  • To move about in an aimless fashion. 

  • To beat; to pound. 

  • To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine. 

  • To swim suddenly in a new direction. 

  • To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom. 

  • To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand. 

  • To swim underwater. 

  • To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin). 

  • To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine. 

  • To roll (steel, etc.) into bars. 

  • To cause to mill, or circle around. 

noun
  • A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic. 

  • An engine. 

  • An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent. 

  • One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax. 

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

  • A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc. 

  • A prison treadmill. 

  • A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck. 

  • 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. 

  • An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. 

  • A milling cutter. 

  • A passage underground through which ore is shot. 

  • Discarding a card from one's deck. 

  • A boxing match, fistfight. 

  • An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised 

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

  • A building housing such a plant. 

  • A typewriter used to transcribe messages received. 

  • A machine for grinding and polishing. 

  • The building housing such a grinding apparatus. 

  • The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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