Muller Meaning
/ˈmʌlə/Definition, CEFR level C2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounOne who, or that which, mulls.
nounOne who, or that which, mulls., A person who mulls wine or other alcoholic beverages.
Sentence Examples
Muller was a famous tennis player.
The muller process is complex.
The artist used a stone muller to grind pigments.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The artist used a ____ to grind pigments on a stone slab for making paint.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The artist used a stone ____ to grind the various raw minerals into a fine powder for making her own unique and very vibrant oil paints.
Word Origin & History
From mull (“to heat and spice, etc.”, verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The muller can easily plow through any sand mixture that I put in it and has plenty of power left over."
— 2008, Stephen Chastain, Build a Muller, →ISBN, page 93:
"The muller provides, in addition, a useful means of comparing the important property of the rate of strength development of pigments."
— 1994, John Wilder Tukey, David R. Brillinger, The collected works of John W. Tukey, →ISBN, page 607:
"We walked down to the golf club to get a beer; they readily agreed as we went, it had been a dreadful game. Macca [Steve McMahon] asked Gazza [Paul Gascoigne], had he heard? – they were getting ‘mullered’ back home. […] Gazza said he wasn’t surprised, it was fair enough – and Macca said the same. He said he didn’t mind getting trashed, when they’d played a lousy game – what he hated was getting trashed for two weeks solid beforehand, when the Cup hadn’t even started."
— 1990, Pete Davies, “All Played Out: England–Ireland”, in All Played Out: The Full Story of Italia ’90, London: Mandarin Paperbacks, published 1991, →ISBN, page 235:
"You needn't make so much fuss. Nobody's going to bother about you. It's me that's going to get mullered."
— 2001 June, Rebecca Tope, chapter 4, in Dark Undertakings, 1st St. Martin’s Minotaur (American) edition, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, section VIII, page 137:
"Sure enough, they've got mullered. They're yesterday's men. The sands of time have washed over them."
— 2006, Jez Butterworth, The Winterling, →ISBN, page 39:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The artist used a ____ to grind pigments on a stone slab for making paint.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The artist used a stone ____ to grind the various raw minerals into a fine powder for making her own unique and very vibrant oil paints.