Adjustment
(n.) The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted |
Adjustment
(n.) Settlement of claims |
Adjustment
(n.) The operation of bringing all the parts of an instrument, as a microscope or telescope, into their proper relative position for use |
Barker's mill
() A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis. |
Craze-mill
(n.) Alt. of Crazing-mill |
Crazing-mill
(n.) A mill for grinding tin ore. |
Mill
(n.) A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar. |
Mill
(n.) A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces |
Mill
(n.) 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 |
Mill
(n.) A machine for grinding and polishing |
Mill
(n.) A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action |
Mill
(n.) A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on |
Mill
(n.) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper. |
Mill
(n.) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. |
Mill
(n.) A passage underground through which ore is shot. |
Mill
(n.) A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling. |
Mill
(n.) A pugilistic. |
Mill
(n.) To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill |
Mill
(n.) To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine |
Mill
(n.) To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head |
Mill
(n.) To pass through a fulling mill |
Mill
(n.) To beat with the fists. |
Mill
(n.) To roll into bars, as steel. |
Mill
(v. i.) To swim under water |
Mill-cake
(n.) The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation. |
Mill-sixpence
(n.) A milled sixpence |
Rolling
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Roll |
Rolling
(a.) Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation |
Rolling
(a.) Moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or rollers |
Rolling
(a.) Having gradual, rounded undulations of surface |
Rolling-pin
(n.) A cylindrical piece of wood or other material, with which paste or dough may be rolled out and reduced to a proper thickness. |
Spindle
(n.) The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound |
Spindle
(n.) A slender rod or pin on which anything turns |
Spindle
(n.) The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc. |
Spindle
(n.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns. |
Spindle
(n.) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed. |
Spindle
(n.) The fusee of a watch. |
Spindle
(n.) A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle. |
Spindle
(n.) A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards |
Spindle
(n.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord. |
Spindle
(n.) Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria |
Spindle
(n.) Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus. |
Spindle
(v. i.) To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body |
Spindle-legged
(a.) Having long, slender legs. |
Spindle-shanked
(a.) Having long, slender legs. |
Spindle-shaped
(a.) Having the shape of a spindle. |
Spindle-shaped
(a.) Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends |
Tilt-mill
(n.) A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on. |
Walk-mill
(n.) A fulling mill. |
Water mill
() A mill whose machinery is moved by water |
wheeling
rolling | propelling something on wheels |
alteration modification
adjustment | the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) |
grind
mill
pulverization
pulverisation | the act of grinding to a powder or dust |
| rolling | the act of robbing a helpless person, he was charged with rolling drunks in the park |
| adjustment registration readjustment | the act of adjusting something to match a standard |
gizzard
ventriculus
gastric mill | thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food |
forest goat
spindle horn
Pseudoryx nghetinhensis | cow-like creature with the glossy coat of a horse and the agility of a goat and the long horns of an antelope, characterized as a cow that lives the life of a goat |
| cider mill | mill that extracts juice from apples to make apple cider |
coffee mill
coffee grinder | a mill that grinds roasted coffee beans |
| cotton mill | a textile mill for making cotton textiles |
factory
mill manufacturing plant
manufactory | a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing |
| flour mill | a mill for grinding grain into flour |
mill
grinder milling machinery | machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing |
millwheel
mill wheel | water wheel that is used to drive machinery in a mill |
| paper mill | a mill where paper is manufactured |
pepper mill
pepper grinder | a mill for grinding pepper |
public house
pub
saloon pothouse
gin mill
taphouse | tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms, often provides light meals |
quartz battery
quartz mill | a stamp mill for stamping quartz |
| rolling hitch | a hitch for fastening a line to a spar or another rope |
| rolling mill | steel mill where metal is rolled into sheets and bars |
| rolling pin | utensil consisting of a cylinder (usually of wood) with a handle at each end, used to roll out dough |
| rolling stock | collection of wheeled vehicles owned by a railroad or motor carrier |
| spike spindle | any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object, the spike pierced the receipts and held them in order |
| spindle | a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning |
spindle mandrel
mandril
arbor | any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts |
| spindle | a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe, used as a baluster, chair leg, etc. |
stamp mill
stamping mill | a mill in which ore is crushed with stamps |
steel mill
steelworks
steel plant
steel factory | a factory where steel is made |
| textile mill | a factory for making textiles |
| water mill | a mill powered by a water wheel |
| spindle | (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division, the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle, chromosomes are distributed by spindles in mitosis and meiosis |
roller
roll rolling wave | a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore |
adjustment
accommodation
fitting | making or becoming suitable, adjusting to circumstances |
peal
pealing
roll
rolling | a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) |
| mill agent | the responsible official at a mill that is under absentee ownership |
| mill-girl | a girl who works in a mill |
mill-hand
factory worker | a workman in a mill or factory |
Mill
John Mill
John Stuart Mill | English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (-) |
| Mill James Mill | Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism, father of John Stuart Mill (-) |
Celastraceae
family Celastraceae
spindle-tree family
staff-tree family | trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having brightolored fruits |
spindle tree
spindleberry
spindleberry tree | any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries |
common spindle tree
Euonymus europaeus | small erect deciduous shrub having tough white wood and cathartic bark and fruit |
winged spindle tree
Euonymous alatus | bushy deciduous shrub with branches having thin wide corky longitudinal wings, brilliant red in autumn, northeastern Asia to central China |
| allowance adjustment | an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances, an allowance for profit |
| seasonal adjustment | a statistical adjustment made to accommodate predictable fluctuations as a function of the season of the year, seasonal adjustments for housing starts must be made in mid-winter |
adaptation
adaption
adjustment | the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions) |
cigarette paper
rolling paper | a strong tissue paper that burns evenly and is sufficiently porous to control the burning of the tobacco in a cigarette |
| mill | grind with a mill, mill grain |
get cracking
bestir oneself
get going
get moving
get weaving
get started
get rolling | start to be active, Get cracking, please! |
| mill | roll out (metal) with a rolling machine |