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MILLER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various moths that have powdery wings
Synonyms:
miller; moth miller
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("miller" is a kind of...):
moth (typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it
Synonyms:
miller; milling machine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("miller" is a kind of...):
shaper; shaping machine (a machine tool for shaping metal or wood)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("miller" is a kind of...):
artificer; artisan; craftsman; journeyman (a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft)
Sense 4
Meaning:
United States playwright (1915-2005)
Synonyms:
Arthur Miller; Miller
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)
Sense 5
Meaning:
United States novelist whose novels were originally banned as pornographic (1891-1980)
Synonyms:
Henry Miller; Henry Valentine Miller; Miller
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Sense 6
Meaning:
United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)
Synonyms:
Alton Glenn Miller; Glenn Miller; Miller
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
bandleader (the leader of a dance band)
Context examples:
He was under Miller, as third lieutenant of the Theseus, when our fleet, like a pack of eager fox hounds in a covert, was dashing from Sicily to Syria and back again to Naples, trying to pick up the lost scent.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In trying to manage the growing burden of chronic preventable disease, we’re increasingly moving towards precision healthcare, target-driven care and technology-based assessment, while at the same time focusing less on the human, interpersonal empathic aspects of care, says Dr Hajira Dambha-Miller, a GP and researcher at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge.
(Patients with an ‘empathic’ GP at reduced risk of early death, University of Cambridge)
The miller saw the peasant lying on the straw, and asked, What is that fellow doing there?
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
"Perhaps Mr. Miller will sell him," she suggested. "We can buy him."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Judge Miller’s place, it was called.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The meal over, prayers were read by Miss Miller, and the classes filed off, two and two, upstairs.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“But I learned how to make the long shoot from old Hob Miller of Milford.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Two international teams of scientists led by Tim Miller from Dalhousie University in Canada and Yale University in the US and Iván Oteo from the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, have uncovered startlingly dense concentrations of galaxies that are poised to merge, forming the cores of what will eventually become colossal galaxy clusters.
(Ancient Galaxy Megamergers, ESO)
We found that more than 80 percent of the lipids eaten by bowhead whales are wax esters, but less than 30 percent remain in the large intestine, says WHOI marine scientist Carolyn Miller, lead author of the study.
(Whales may owe their efficient digestion to millions of tiny microbes, National Science Foundation)
The king came in the morning, and, finding all he wanted, was forced to keep his word; so he married the miller’s daughter, and she really became queen.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
