The difference between Factory and Mill
When used as nouns, factory means a trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country, whereas mill means a grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
Factory is also adjective with the meaning: having come from the factory in the state it is currently in.
Mill is also verb with the meaning: to grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
check bellow for the other definitions of Factory and Mill
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Factory as a noun (obsolete):
A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
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Factory as a noun (now, _, rare):
The position or state of being a factor.
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Factory as a noun:
A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
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Factory as a noun:
A device which produces or manufactures something.
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Factory as a noun (programming):
In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
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Factory as an adjective (colloquial, of a configuration, part, etc.):
Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.
Examples:
"See how there's another layer of metal there? That's not factory."
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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.