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mill ~ mill
[the same pronunciation]
“Mill” as a noun, is ‘1. a building with machinery for crushing grain, such as corn, wheat, rice, etc. into flour (fine powder); 2. a workshop, factory, or building for an industry (though ‘crushing is not done), especially cotton, silk, paper, etc.’; and as a verb, it means ‘to crush, roll, cut something such as grain, paper, metal in a mill’,
a flour mill
e.g.
Farmers carry their grain to the flourmill.
There is much chance of getting employment in this industrial town because there are a number of cotton and textile mills.
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“Mill” (verb) is ‘(of people or animals) to move about without purpose, or in a confused state in large groups’,
(people mill about)
e.g.
I wonder why all these people mill about in the streets. Can’t they find anything useful to do?
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