muller

Plural: mullers

Noun

• A tool used for grinding or mixing substances.
• Swiss chemist who synthesized DDT and discovered its use as an insecticide (1899-1965)
• Swiss physicist who studied superconductivity (born in 1927)
• German physiologist and anatomist (1801-1858)
• German mathematician and astronomer (1436-1476)
• British philologist (born in Germany) who specialized in Sanskrit (1823-1900)
• United States geneticist who studied the effects of X-rays on genes (1890-1967)
• a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation
• a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone
• a vessel in which wine is mulled
• One who, or that which, mulls.
• A person who mulls wine or other alcoholic beverages.
• One who, or that which, mulls.
• A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.
• A machine that mixes clay and sand under a roller for use in preparing a mould for metal casting.
• A stone with a flat grinding surface, which is held in the hand and rubbed on a slab to grind paint pigments, medicinal powders, etc.
• A device used for crushing or grinding.

Verb

• To grind up (something) into, or as if into, powder.
• To destroy (something); to ruin, to wreck.
• To beat or thrash (someone).
• To utterly defeat or outplay (a sportsperson, a team, etc.); to destroy, to thrash, to trounce.
• To cut down or reduce the height of (a top hat).

Examples

• He used MULLER to connect two existing words, netting him a respectable point total.

Synonyms

Friedrich Max Muller, Hermann Joseph Muller, Johann Muller, Johannes Peter Muller, Karl Alex Muller, Max Muller, muser, Paul Hermann Muller, pestle, ponderer, pounder, Regiomontanus, ruminator, outclass, sand muller

Related Words

Müller