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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

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

The prime muller merely cackled with false laughter and went on with her mulling.

From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough

Lastly, the oil is ground with a sufficient pigment on a stone by means of a muller.

From Paper and Printing Recipes A Handy Volume of Practical Recipes, Concerning the Every-Day Business of Stationers, Printers, Binders, and the Kindred Trades by J. Sawtelle Ford

No player has ever scored so many goals in a season for Bayern, a club who have had legendary goalscorers like Gerd Muller, Rummenigge and more recently Robert Lewandowski in their ranks.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

"There’s essentially no likelihood of success," Muller wrote on the Election Law Blog.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 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

This is a club who have had some legendary goalscorers in Gerd Muller, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Robert Lewandowski.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

Tired of mutant hunting, Muller wondered if he could accelerate the production of mutants—perhaps by exposing flies to heat or light or higher bursts of energy.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

With financial support from Biohub, Müller acquired an advanced cryo-EM instrument and equipped it with the new laser phase plate.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

A possible solution emerged in 2010, when Müller and Robert Glaeser, now a UC Berkeley professor emeritus of molecular and cell biology, proposed using an intense laser to produce the necessary phase shift.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 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

Müller plans to vote no to a population cap, arguing that it won’t solve the canton’s problems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

We are just the right people for that;—Kat, Albert, Müller, Tjaden, Detering, our whole gang is there.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

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