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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: miller - millionth</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="miller"> miller, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1a. a person who owns or runs a mill, especially a flour mill. <DD> b. a person who operates any machine called a mill. <DD> 2. a moth whose wings look as if they were powdered with flour. <DD> 3a. =milling machine. <DD> b. a tool used in a milling machine. </DL> <A NAME="millerite"> millerite, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a mineral, nickel sulfide, usually occurring in brassy or bronze crystals or in incrustations. </DL> <A NAME="millerite"> Millerite, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an Adventist following the doctrine of William Miller, an American preacher, who foretold the second coming of Christ and the beginning of the millennium which would occur in the immediate future. Ex. The Millerites ... believed that the world would be destroyed by fire in 1843 (New Yorker). </DL> <A NAME="millersthumb"> miller's-thumb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various small, spiny-finned, freshwater fishes; sculpin. </DL> <A NAME="millesimal"> millesimal, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. =thousandth. <DD> 2. consisting of thousandth parts. <DD> 3. dealing with thousandths. <DD>noun a thousandth part. adv. millesimally. </DL> <A NAME="millet"> millet, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a very small grain used for food in Europe, Asia, and Africa. <DD> 2. the plant that it grows on. In the United States and Europe, millet is used for hay. Millet is an annual cereal grass bearing a large crop of nutritious seeds on a drooping terminal panicle. It is probably native to India, but has been extensively cultivated throughout history as a food grain. <DD> 3. any one of various other grasses grown for their seeds or for forage, such as durra or Indian millet, pearl millet, or Italian millet. <DD> 4. the grain or seed of any of these plants. </DL> <A NAME="millhand"> mill hand,<DL COMPACT><DD> a worker in any type of mill; millman. Ex. The Pacific Northwest's great experiment in turning plywood mill hands into capitalists (Wall Street Journal). </DL> <A NAME="millhouse"> millhouse, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a building in which milling is done. </DL> <A NAME="milli"> milli-,<DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) one thousandth of a ______. Ex. Millimeter = one thousandth of a meter. </DL> <A NAME="milliammeter"> milliammeter, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an ammeter which measures thousandths of amperes. Ex. A milliammeter, used to measure small electric currents, is constructed so that blind persons can feel its raised dial markings (Science News Letter). </DL> <A NAME="milliamp"> milliamp, noun. =milliampere.</DL> <A NAME="milliampere"> milliampere, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a unit for measuring electric current equal to one thousandth of an ampere. (Abbr:) ma. </DL> <A NAME="milliangstrom"> milliangstrom, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one thousandth of an angstrom. (Abbr:) mA. </DL> <A NAME="milliard"> milliard, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a thousand millions; billion; 1,000,000,000. </DL> <A NAME="milliary"> milliary, adjective, noun, pl. -aries.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. of, having to do with, or using the ancient Roman mile of a thousand paces. <DD>noun =milestone. </DL> <A NAME="millibar"> millibar, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a measure of atmospheric pressure equal to 1,000 dynes per square centimeter. Standard atmospheric pressure atsea level is about 1,013 millibars or 14.69 pounds per square inch. Thirty-four millibars are about equal to one inch of mercury. (Abbr:) mb. </DL> <A NAME="millibarn"> millibarn, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Nuclear Physics.) one thousandth of a barn. </DL> <A NAME="millicron"> millicron, noun. =micromillimeter.</DL> <A NAME="millicurie"> millicurie, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one thousandth of a curie. Ex. One millicurie of radium expels thirty million alpha particles per second (Science News). <DL COMPACT><DD> (Abbr:) mc (no period). </DL> </DL> <A NAME="millidegree"> millidegree, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one thousandth of a degree. Ex. ... procedures capable of lowering the temperature range accessible for research to within millidegrees of absolute zero (Scientific American). </DL> <A NAME="millieme"> millieme, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a unit of money in Egypt, Libya, and the Sudan, worth one thousandth of the country's basic monetary unit. </DL> <A NAME="milliequivalent"> milliequivalent, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one thousandth of the value of an equivalent weight. (Abbr:) meq. </DL> <A NAME="millier"> millier, noun. =metric ton.</DL> <A NAME="millifarad"> millifarad, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one thousandth of a farad. (Abbr:) mf. </DL> <A NAME="milligal"> milligal, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a measure of gravity, one thousandth of a gal, equal to an acceleration of one thousandth of a centimeter per second. </DL> <A NAME="milligram"> milligram, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one thousandth of a gram, equal to 0.0154 of a grain, or about two millionths of a pound. (Abbr:) mg. </DL> <A NAME="milligramme"> milligramme, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) milligram. </DL> <A NAME="millihenry"> millihenry, noun, pl. -ries or -rys.<DL COMPACT><DD> one thousandth of a henry. (Abbr:) mh. </DL> <A NAME="milliliter"> milliliter, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one thousandth of a liter, equal to 1.000027 cubic centimeters, 0.061 cubic inch, or 0.0338 fluid ounce. (Abbr:) ml. </DL> <A NAME="millilitre"> millilitre, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) milliliter. </DL> <A NAME="millime"> millime, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a unit of money in Tunisia, equal to 1/1000 dinar. </DL> <A NAME="millimeter"> millimeter, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one thousandth of a meter, equal to 0.03937 inch. (Abbr:) mm (no period). </DL> <A NAME="millimetre"> millimetre, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) millimeter. </DL> <A NAME="millimetric"> millimetric, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the millimeteror any system of measurement based on it. </DL> <A NAME="millimicron"> millimicron, noun, pl. -crons, -cra.<DL COMPACT><DD> a unit of length equal to one thousandth of a micron. </DL> <A NAME="millimicrosecond"> millimicrosecond, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one thousandth of a microsecond. Ex. Accuracy is said to be within a fraction of a millimicrosecond (Science News Letter). </DL> <A NAME="millimole"> millimole, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Chemistry.) one thousandth of a gram molecule. </DL> <A NAME="milline"> milline, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a unit used in buying and selling advertising space, representing one 5 1/2-point (agate) line, one column wide, in one million copies of a newspaper, magazine, or similar publication. </DL> <A NAME="milliner"> milliner, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person who makes, trims, or sells women's hats. <DD> 2. (Obsolete.) a dealer in fancy wares and articles of apparel, especially those originally of Milan manufacture. </DL> <A NAME="millinery"> millinery, noun, pl. -neries.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. women's hats. Ex. Some women use elaborate millinery to attract attention. <DD> 2. the business of making, trimming, or selling women's hats. Ex. The capital of millinery is still Paris. <DD> 3. articles made or sold by milliners. </DL> <A NAME="milling"> milling, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the business of grinding grain in a mill. <DD> 2. manufacturing. <DD> 3. the act or process of cutting notches or ridges on the edge of a coin. <DD> 4. such notches or ridges. <DD> 5. (Slang.) a thrashing. </DL> <A NAME="millingmachine"> milling machine,<DL COMPACT><DD> a machine tool with rotary cutters for working metal. </DL> <A NAME="milliohm"> milliohm, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one thousandth of an ohm. </DL> <A NAME="million"> million, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. one thousand thousand; 1,000,000. Ex. 1 million days is 2,740 years. <DL COMPACT><DD> (Abbr:)m. <DD> 2. a very large number; very many. Ex. millions of fish. She can always think of millions of reasons for not helping with the dishes. <DD> 3. a million coins or units of money of account of some understood value, especially a million dollars or British pounds. Ex. He left an estate of over a million. <DD>adj. 1. one thousand thousand; 1,000,000. <DD> 2. very large number of; very many. Ex. a million thanks. expr. the million, the multitude; the masses. Ex. The play ... pleased not the million (Shakespeare). </DL> </DL> <A NAME="millionaire"> millionaire or millionnaire, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person whose wealth amounts to a million or more dollars, pounds, francs, or the like. <DD> 2. a very wealthy person. Ex. Only a millionaire could afford these prices. (SYN) Croesus, Midas. </DL> <A NAME="millionairedom"> millionairedom or millionnairedom, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the condition of being a millionaire. <DD> 2. millionaires considered as a group. </DL> <A NAME="millionairess"> millionairess or millionnairess, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a woman millionaire. </DL> <A NAME="millionary"> millionary, adjective, noun, pl. -aries.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. possessing millions, as of money. Ex. these millionary people (Rudyard Kipling). <DD>noun =millionaire. </DL> <A NAME="millioned"> millioned, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. numbered by the million. <DD> 2. possessed of millions, as of money. </DL> <A NAME="millionfold"> millionfold, adverb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> a million times as much or as many. Ex. a millionfold increase (adj.), to increase a millionfold (adv.). </DL> <A NAME="millionth"> millionth, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. last in a series of one million. <DD> 2. one, or being one, of a million equal parts. </DL> <A HREF="milliped.dic">NEXT</A>