In simple English, can you please explain the difference between a factory and a mill?

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Mill may refer to: Mill (grinding), equipment for the grinding or pulverizing of raw materials using millstones windmill, wind powered watermill, water powered horse mill, animal powered treadwheel, human powered (archaic: "treadmill") Mill (factory), a place of business for making articles of manufacture. The term mill was once in common use for a factory because many factories in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution were powered by a watermill, but nowadays it is only used in a few specific contexts; e.g. a cotton mill is a factory for processing cotton a paper mill produces paper a sawmill cuts timber a gristmill grinds grain into flour a steel mill manufactures steel a sugar mill (also called a sugar refinery) processes sugar beets or sugar cane into various finished products a huller (also called a rice mill, or rice husker) is used to hull rice Milling machine, machine tool that operates by moving a work piece against a cutter. Stamp mill, a specialized machine for reducing ore to powder for further processing or for fracturing other materials. http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill Jun 07 08, 6:48 PM