The difference between Burn and Mill
When used as nouns, burn means a physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals, whereas mill means a grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
When used as verbs, burn means to cause to be consumed by fire, whereas mill means to grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
check bellow for the other definitions of Burn and Mill
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Burn as a noun:
A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
Examples:
"She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire."
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Burn as a noun:
A sensation resembling such an injury.
Examples:
"chili burn from eating hot peppers"
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Burn as a noun:
The act of burning something.
Examples:
"They're doing a controlled burn of the fields."
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Burn as a noun (slang):
An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
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Burn as a noun (slang):
An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn .
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Burn as a noun:
Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
Examples:
"One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn!"
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Burn as a noun (UK, chiefly, prison, _, slang):
tobacco
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Burn as a noun:
The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
Examples:
"They have a good burn."
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Burn as a noun:
A disease in vegetables; brand.
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Burn as a verb (transitive):
To cause to be consumed by fire.
Examples:
"He burned his manuscript in the fireplace."
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Burn as a verb (intransitive):
To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
Examples:
"He watched the house burn."
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Burn as a verb (transitive):
To overheat so as to make unusable.
Examples:
"He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel."
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Burn as a verb (intransitive):
To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
Examples:
"The grill was too hot and the steak burned."
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Burn as a verb (transitive):
To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
Examples:
"to burn a hole;  to burn letters into a block"
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Burn as a verb (transitive):
To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
Examples:
"She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years."
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Burn as a verb (transitive, surgery):
To cauterize.
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Burn as a verb (ambitransitive):
To sunburn.
Examples:
"She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned."
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Burn as a verb (transitive):
To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
Examples:
"to burn the mouth with pepper"
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Burn as a verb (intransitive):
To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
Examples:
"The child's forehead was burning with fever.  Her cheeks burned with shame."
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Burn as a verb (chemistry, transitive):
To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
Examples:
"A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration.  nowrap to burn iron in oxygen"
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Burn as a verb (chemistry, dated):
To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
Examples:
"Copper burns in chlorine."
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Burn as a verb (transitive, computing):
To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
Examples:
"We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins."
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Burn as a verb (transitive, slang):
To betray.
Examples:
"The informant burned him."
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Burn as a verb (transitive, slang):
To insult or defeat.
Examples:
"I just burned you again."
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Burn as a verb (transitive):
To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
Examples:
"We have an hour to burn."
"The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year."
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Burn as a verb:
In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
Examples:
"You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!"
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Burn as a verb (intransitive, curling):
To accidentally touch a moving stone.
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Burn as a verb (transitive, cards):
In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
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Burn as a verb (photography):
To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare ).
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Burn as a verb (intransitive, physics, of an element):
To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star
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Burn as a verb (intransitive, slang, card games, gambling):
To discard.
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Burn as a noun (Scotland, northern England):
A stream.
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Mill as a noun:
A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
Examples:
"Pepper has a stronger flavor when it is ground straight from a mill."
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Mill as a noun:
The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
Examples:
"My grandfather worked in a mill."
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Mill as a noun:
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.
Examples:
"a cider mill; a cane mill'"
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Mill as a noun:
A machine for grinding and polishing.
Examples:
"a lapidary mill'"
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Mill as a noun:
The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
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Mill as a noun:
A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
Examples:
"a steel mill'"
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Mill as a noun:
A building housing such a plant.
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Mill as a noun (figurative):
An establishment that handles a certain type of situation routinely, such as a divorce mill, etc.
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Mill as a noun (figurative, derogatory):
An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
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Mill as a noun (informal):
An engine.
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Mill as a noun (informal):
A boxing match, fistfight.
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Mill as a noun (die sinking):
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.
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Mill as a noun (mining):
An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
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Mill as a noun (mining):
A passage underground through which ore is shot.
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Mill as a noun:
A milling cutter.
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Mill as a noun:
A treadmill.
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Mill as a verb (transitive):
To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
Examples:
"to mill flour"
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Mill as a verb (transitive):
To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
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Mill as a verb (transitive):
To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
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Mill as a verb (intransitive, followed by, _, [[around]], [[about]], etc.):
To move about in an aimless fashion.
Examples:
"I didn't have much to do, so I just milled around the town looking at the shops."
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Mill as a verb (transitive):
To cause to mill, or circle around.
Examples:
"to mill cattle"
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Mill as a verb (zoology, of air-breathing creatures):
To swim underwater.
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Mill as a verb (zoology, of a whale):
To swim suddenly in a new direction.
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Mill as a verb (transitive, slang):
To beat; to pound.
Examples:
"rfquotek Thackeray"
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Mill as a verb:
To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
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Mill as a verb (transitive):
To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
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Mill as a verb (transitive):
To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
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Mill as a verb (intransitive):
To undergo hulling.
Examples:
"This maize mills well."
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Mill as a verb (intransitive, slang):
To take part in a fistfight; to box.
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Mill as a verb (transitive, mining):
To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
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Mill as a verb (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant):
To commit burglary.
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Mill as a noun:
An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
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Mill as a noun:
One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
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Mill as a noun:
A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
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Mill as a verb (transitive, trading card games):
To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
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Mill as a verb (transitive, Hearthstone):
To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
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Mill as a noun (trading card games):
Discarding a card from one's deck.
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Mill as a noun (trading card games):
A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.