"milling" meaning in English

See milling in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈmɪlɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-milling.wav Forms: millings [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} milling (countable and uncountable, plural millings)
  1. Any of various grinding, cutting, or shredding processes using any of various types of mill.
    Such grinding, cutting, or shredding applied to grain to produce meal or flour.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Hypernyms: processing
    Sense id: en-milling-en-noun-HWdhxbij
  2. Any of various grinding, cutting, or shredding processes using any of various types of mill.
    Such cutting to produce millwork (finely finished lumber).
    Tags: countable, uncountable Hypernyms: processing
    Sense id: en-milling-en-noun--DlFIDFu
  3. Any of various grinding, cutting, or shredding processes using any of various types of mill.
    (machining) A type of machining in which a rotary cutter is moved through a toolpath to cut away material.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Hypernyms: processing, machining Coordinate_terms: grinding, drilling, turning, boring, broaching, shaping, planing
    Sense id: en-milling-en-noun-QlS9fI2w Categories (other): Machining, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Coins Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 16 24 17 17 6 3 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 14 24 16 16 7 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 10 10 25 23 23 4 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 15 15 25 19 19 3 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 15 15 31 12 12 7 7 Disambiguation of Coins: 9 9 25 15 28 5 8 Topics: engineering, machining, mechanical-engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
  4. The surface or other physical result produced by such a process. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-milling-en-noun-q076DQv4 Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Coins Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 10 10 25 23 23 4 6 Disambiguation of Coins: 9 9 25 15 28 5 8
  5. The surface or other physical result produced by such a process.
    The series of notches around the edge of a coin during minting so that it can be told if some of the metal from the edge is removed.
    Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-milling-en-noun-FK9sSuSe Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Coins Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 10 10 25 23 23 4 6 Disambiguation of Coins: 9 9 25 15 28 5 8
  6. A circular or random motion of a herd or a crowd. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-milling-en-noun-3CVfI6ky
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: comilling, high milling, ion milling, low milling, micromilling, milling cutter, milling frolic, milling machine, paper-milling, watermilling

Verb

IPA: /ˈmɪlɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-milling.wav
Rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} milling
  1. present participle and gerund of mill Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: mill Translations (Present participle of mill): mlevenje (Serbo-Croatian), glodanje (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-milling-en-verb-Uux4IUxv

Inflected forms

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