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• muller
  muller

  noun

  an implement of stone or other substance with a flat base for grinding paints, powders, etc., on a slab of stone or the like.
• Muller
  Muller

  noun

  Hermann Joseph, 1890–1967, U.S. geneticist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1946.
• Müller
  Müller

  noun

  Johann Regiomontanus.

muller

¹ American  

[muhl-er] / ˈmʌl ər /

noun

1. an implement of stone or other substance with a flat base for grinding paints, powders, etc., on a slab of stone or the like.

2. any of various mechanical devices for grinding.

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muller ² American  

[muhl-er] / ˈmʌl ər /

noun

1. a person or thing that mulls alcoholic beverages.

2. a container for mulling an alcoholic beverage over a fire.

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Muller ³ American  

[myoo-ler, muhl-er, mil-] / ˈmju lər, ˈmʌl ər, ˈmɪl- /

noun

1. Hermann Joseph, 1890–1967, U.S. geneticist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1946.

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Müller ⁴ American  

[muhl-er, my-luhr] / ˈmʌl ər, ˈmü lər /

noun

1. Johann Regiomontanus.

2. Johannes Peter 1801–58, German physiologist and comparative anatomist.

3. K. Alex Karl Alexander Müller, 1927–2023, Swiss physicist who, with J. Georg Bednorz, discovered superconductivity in ceramic materials: shared Nobel Prize in Physics 1987.

4. Max Friedrich Max Müller, 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.

5. Wilhelm Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Müller, 1794–1827, German lyric poet noted for poems that became the basis of works by Franz Schubert and other composers.

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Müller ¹ British  

/ ˈmylər /

noun

1. Friedrich Max (ˈfriːdrɪç maks). 1823–1900, British Sanskrit scholar born in Germany

2. Johann (joˈhan). See Regiomontanus

3. Johannes Peter (joˈhanəs ˈpeːtər). 1801–58, German physiologist, anatomist, and experimental psychologist

4. Paul Hermann (paul ˈhɛrman). 1899–1965, Swiss chemist. He synthesized DDT (1939) and discovered its use as an insecticide: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1948

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Muller ² British  

/ ˈmʌlə /

noun

1. Hermann Joseph. 1890–1967, US geneticist, noted for his work on the transmutation of genes by X-rays: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1946

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muller ³ British  

/ ˈmʌlə /

noun

1. a flat heavy implement of stone or iron used to grind material against a slab of stone

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Etymology

Origin of muller¹

1375–1425; late Middle English molour; see mull ⁴, -or ², -er ¹

Origin of muller²

First recorded in 1855–60; mull ² + -er ¹

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Example Sentences

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But muller does not refer to the player Gerd Muller, however much he stands out in the unfinished story of the great game that is England v Germany.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2014

You're never going to make decent wine from muller or Bacchus.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2013

Every time he ground with the muller on the slab a fresh supply of vermilion and chrome yellow, there was a fresh flare up of the conflagration, another outburst of applause from the little boy.

From Holman Hunt Masterpieces in Colour by Mary E. Coleridge

You must grind such colour till it is smooth, and an old-fashioned granite muller is the thing, not a glass one.

From Stained Glass Work A text-book for students and workers in glass by C. W. Whall

The dried salt is added little by little to rectified oil of lavender, placed on a glass paint-grinding plate, and the salt and oil are ground together with a muller.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

He said he was blown away by the chromatographic results Muller obtained.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

The discovery grew out of analytical techniques Muller developed during her postgraduate studies in SU's Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

In 2023 Mae Muller finished second from bottom and in 2021 James Newman came last - this time with "nul points".

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Muller said Deep Fission’s reactor is too deep to affect aquifers, and that it will follow all nuclear and oil-and-gas regulations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Like Morgan, Muller hoped to use mutants to understand heredity.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

A team led by Prof. Rolf Müller, department head and scientific director at HIPS, has now identified a promising drug candidate that specifically targets C. difficile while preserving much of the gut's beneficial microbial community.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

It was Kane’s sixth goal of the tournament and his 14th in World Cup history, tying him with Thomas Müller for fifth place on the all-time men’s World Cup scoring list.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

Monika Müller, a financial psychologist and coach based outside of Frankfurt, hosts seminars for traders and financial advisers to help them get more comfortable with taking risks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

The German playwright Heiner Müller once warned that you will not understand what Wilson was up to when you see his work.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

After a meeting with President da Fonseca, Roosevelt met with Lauro Müller, the lean and elegant foreign minister of Brazil.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

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