młyn — meaning in English

English meaning

• mill noun A machine, or the building housing it, used to grind grain into flour.
• scrum noun A tightly packed and disorderly crowd of people.
• treadmill noun An exercise machine with a moving belt for walking or running in place.

Senses

młyn is used for these senses in English:

• mill The building housing such a grinding apparatus; also, any similar building that houses a similarly material activity (such as weaving, fulling, dying, etc.); the place of business comprising such a building and its outbuildings and grounds.
• scrum (rugby) In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way.
• treadmill (historical) A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It was used principally as a means of prison discipline.

mill — full definition

1. noun A machine, or the building housing it, used to grind grain into flour.
2. noun A factory that processes a raw material, such as paper, steel, or cloth.
3. noun An institution or business that churns out large quantities of something with little regard for quality, often used dismissively.
4. verb To grind, cut, or shape material using a mill or milling machine.
5. verb Of a crowd, to move around aimlessly or in a disorganised way (usually as "mill about/around").

scrum — full definition

1. noun A tightly packed and disorderly crowd of people.
2. noun A tightly packed group of reporters surrounding a person, usually a politician, asking for comments about an issue; an opportunity provided for a politician to be approached this way.
3. noun In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way.
4. noun In agile software development (specifically Scrum or related methodologies), a daily meeting in which each developer describes what they have been doing, what they plan to do next, and any impediments to progress.

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