MILLS

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• MILLS (noun)
  The noun MILLS has 1 sense:

1. United States architect who was the presidentially appointed architect of Washington D.C. (1781-1855)

  Familiarity information: MILLS used as a noun is very rare.

• MILLS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States architect who was the presidentially appointed architect of Washington D.C. (1781-1855)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Mills; Robert Mills

Instance hypernyms:

architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))

 Context examples 

Behold me, on my gallant grey, bending at the side of Miss Mills, with my hand upon the carriage door!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Biologist Scott Mills of the University of Montana, who began studying snowshoe hares in the 1990s, says finding them has become much easier as average winter snow duration has decreased over time.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

It is in a German-speaking country—in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. ‘Remarkable as being the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous glass-factories and paper-mills.’ Ha, ha, my boy, what do you make of that?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Miss Mills alone could enter into my feelings thoroughly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mills and team point out that the areas with co-existing winter brown and winter white animals would be places with special potential for evolutionary rescue, where genetically driven adaptive traits reverse population decline.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

“Mr. Copperfield,” said Miss Mills, “you are dull.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In a recent paper Mills asks how evolution has shaped the coat color trait for multiple species around the world, from hares to weasels to arctic fox.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

“Mr. Copperfield,” said Miss Mills, “come to this side of the carriage a moment—if you can spare a moment. I want to speak to you.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

After Mills and his students published a series of papers describing the snowshoe hare coat color mismatch, its effect on survival, and how it is likely to increase under climate change, they turned their attention to a global perspective.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

Miss Mills was copying music (I recollect, it was a new song, called “Affection's Dirge”), and Dora was painting flowers.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)