Mill
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine. To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine. To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin). (followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. The building housing such a grinding apparatus. A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc. A building housing such a plant. An establishment that handles a certain type of situation routinely, such as a divorce mill, etc. An obsolete coin with value one-thousandth of a dollar, or one-tenth of a cent. One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
Example sentence: Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.
Factory
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.The position or state of being a factor.A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.A device which produces or manufactures something.In a computer program or library, a function or method which creates an object.
Example sentence: In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world.