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MILL

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mill¹ I. substantiv

1. moară;

water mill moară de apă;

wind mill moară de vânt;

to go/ to pass through the mill a face o şcoală severă, a trece printr-o pregătire serioasă; a trece prin ciur şi (prin) sită;

to put through the mill a sili / a face (pe cineva) să treacă printr-o pregătire serioasă;

to draw water to one's mill a trage spuza pe turta sa.

2. fabrică, uzină; întreprindere; filatură; manufacatură.

3. râşniţă;

coffee mill râşniţă de cafea.

4. (tehn.) concasor, freză, ciocan.

5. (metal.) laminor.

6. presă (pentru presarea uleiului vegetal).

7. v. treadmill.

8. (sl.) box, luptă cu pumnii.

9. (sl.) pârnaie, gros, închisoare.

mill¹ II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a măcina, a râşni.

2. (tehn.) a prelucra, a freza, a da la strung; a zimţui, a cresta.

3. (mine) a sfărâma (minereuri).

4. a decortica (seminţele).

5. a scrobi, a apreta; a călca (postav sau stofă).

6. a bate (ciocolata) spumă.

7. (sl.) a bate, a lovi; a lua în pumni.

8. (sl.) a trimite la închisoare.

mill¹ II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. (mai ales despre vite) a se mişca în cerc; (despre balene) a se întoarce, a se da peste cap.

2. (sl.) a boxa.

mill² substantiv

1. (înv.) veche măsură de lungime (= 0,2539 mm).

2. (amer.) a mia parte dintr-un dolar, a zecea parte dintr-un cent.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

By the side of a wood, in a country a long way off, ran a fine stream of water; and upon the stream there stood a mill.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Ah, by my finger bones, there is my sweet Mary from the Priory Mill!

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her visit to Abbey-Mill, this summer, seems to have done his business.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Then, if we have choice of place, we might choose Crawley Down, for, except Molesey Hurst, and, maybe, Smitham Bottom, there isn’t a spot in the country that would compare with it for a mill.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Good lack-a-day!” said he, “how came I to tumble into the mill?”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

There had been a time also when Emma would have been sorry to see Harriet in a spot so favourable for the Abbey Mill Farm; but now she feared it not.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

“If it please you,” he cried, “there is no need to go so far. My coach-house at the back of the yard is empty, and a better place for a mill you’ll never find.”

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But as the weather grew so bad and there was a storm of rain and wind, he could go no farther, and turned back to the mill and begged for shelter.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Mrs. Goddard, and the teachers, and the girls and the affairs of the school in general, formed naturally a great part of the conversation—and but for her acquaintance with the Martins of Abbey-Mill Farm, it must have been the whole.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

All night long they walked, and it was morning before they reached the mill.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

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