Did you mean: miller, Jonathan Miller (CEO of AOL), Arthur Miller (Writer / Playwright), Henry Miller (Writer), Glenn Miller (Bandleader / Trombonist / Missing Person) More...

Results for miller
On this page:
 
Dictionary:

miller

  (mĭl'ər) pronunciation
n.
  1. One who works in, operates, or owns a mill, especially a grain mill.
  2. A milling machine.
  3. Any of various moths whose wings and bodies have a powdery appearance.

 
 
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: miller

Any of the more than 20,000 moth species in the lepidopteran family Noctuidae, common worldwide. Some species have a 1-ft (30-cm) wingspan, the largest of any moth, but most species have a wingspan of 1.5 in. (4 cm) or less. The wings are usually dull-coloured. Both larvae and adults of most species feed at night. Adults feed on fruits, sap, and nectar. The larvae of many species are agricultural pests (e.g., cutworm, bollworm) that feed on foliage and seeds, bore into stems and fruits, and eat or sever roots. A few species prey on scale insects.

For more information on miller, visit Britannica.com.

 
WordNet: miller
Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The noun has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill)

Meaning #2: machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it
  Synonym: milling machine

Meaning #3: any of various moths that have powdery wings
  Synonym: moth miller

 
Wikipedia: miller
A man dressed as a medieval miller. Medieval festival at Monselice.
Enlarge
A man dressed as a medieval miller. Medieval festival at Monselice.
For other uses, see: Miller (disambiguation)

A miller usually refers to one who grinds a cereal crop to make flour.

Milling is among the oldest of human occupations and has appeared all over the world. They were important to the development of agriculture but predated it, and were in existence since hunter-gathering times.

The materials ground by millers are often foodstuffs and particularly grain. This allows for the easier digestion of the nutrients within the food and saves wear on the teeth. Any other substance needed in a fine, powdered form such as building materials may be processed by a miller. A new generation of millers presently exists.

A Bedstone and the Rind. Dalgarven Mill, Scotland.
Enlarge
A Bedstone and the Rind. Dalgarven Mill, Scotland.

The most basic tool for a miller would be a quern-stone - simply a large, fixed stone as a base and another movable stone which would be operated by hand. As technology improved, more elaborate machines such as watermills and windmills were developed to do the grinding work. These mills harnessed available energy sources including animal, water, wind and electrical power. Mills are some of the oldest factories in human history, so factories making other items are sometimes known as mills, for example, cotton mills and steel mills. These factory workers are also called millers.

The Rind in pre-reformation Scotland was often carved on millers gravestones as a symbol of the milling trade. The importance of the profession of the miller in human history is displayed by the fact that 'Miller', 'Milne' and other variants are often found as surnames.


This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)

 
Translations: Miller

Dansk (Danish)
n. - møller, fræser, fræsemaskine

Nederlands (Dutch)
molenaar, freesbank, mot, kever

Français (French)
n. - meunier, (Ind) fraiseur

Deutsch (German)
n. - Müller

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μυλωνάς

Italiano (Italian)
mugnaio, operaio fresatore

Português (Portuguese)
n. - moleiro (m), fresadora (f)

Русский (Russian)
мельник, фрезеровщик, фрезерный станок

Español (Spanish)
n. - molinero

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - mjölnare, fräsmaskin, nattfly, ollonborre, sävslända, örnrocka

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
磨坊主, 碾磨工, 铣工, 制粉业者, 铣床

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 磨坊主, 碾磨工, 銑工, 制粉業者, 銑床

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 방앗간 주인

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 粉屋, 製粉業者

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) صاحب الطحانه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮בעל טחנת-קמח, טוחן‬

If you are unable to view some languages clearly, click here.

To select your translation preferences click here.


 
 

Did you mean: miller, Jonathan Miller (CEO of AOL), Arthur Miller (Writer / Playwright), Henry Miller (Writer), Glenn Miller (Bandleader / Trombonist / Missing Person) More...

Join the WikiAnswers Q&A community. Post a question or answer questions about "miller" at WikiAnswers.

 

Copyrights:

Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2007. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. © 2006 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. All rights reserved.  Read more
WordNet. WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.  Read more
Wikipedia. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Miller".  Read more
Translations. Copyright © 2007, WizCom Technologies Ltd. All rights reserved.  Read more

On this page:   E-mail   print Print  Link  

 

Keep Reading

Mentioned In:

 |  More >More >
 

Do you have the answers?