Difference between Mill Around and Loiter

MILL AROUND vs LOITER: VERB

Be about
To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly; to linger; to hang around.

To stand idly about; linger without any purpose.
To violate a law or ordinance that prohibits persons from remaining in a given location without a clear purpose for an extended period of time, especially when behaving in a manner indicating a possible threat to persons or property in the vicinity.
To hover over or remain near an area.
To act slowly or with leisure; take one's time.
To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
To wander as an idle vagrant.
To proceed slowly or with many stops.

Be about a place without any apparent purpose
To consume or waste, as time, idly or carelessly: used with away: as, he loitered away most of his leisure.
Synonyms To lag, tarry, saunter, dilly-dally.
To linger; be unduly slow in moving; delay; be dilatory; spend time idly.

Puzzle over, Addlebrained, Mill about, Mess about, Lallygag, Hang around, Footle, Lurk, Lounge, Tarry, Loiter, Linger, Lollygag, Loaf, Mill

Congregate, Wander, Lag, Mess about, Hang around, Lallygag, Mill about, Footle, Mill around, Loaf, Lounge, Tarry, Lollygag, Linger, Lurk

Puzzle over, Addlebrained, Mill about, Mess about, Lallygag, Hang around, Footle, Lurk, Lounge, Tarry, Loiter, Linger, Lollygag, Loaf, Mill

Congregate, Wander, Lag, Mill around, Mill about, Mess about, Lallygag, Hang around, Footle, Loaf, Lounge, Tarry, Lollygag, Linger, Lurk

Various crew mill around the sound stage, including the Director Martin Wood and Martin Lloyd.
Only their antennae twitched, but they did not move, did not mill around.
In the city centre of Charahi Ansari, under the mellow afternoon sun, families mill around shops, restaurants and kabab corners.
Michael Hampton founded his fiber mill around the same time that we got our first sheep, which was a fortuitous coincidence.
Within the first half a mile of Soda Lake Road, pronghorn antelope mill around a water trough.
Deer are browsers and will often mill around for hours before making it to their destination.
Several people mill around, sipping cocktails and making small talk.
Trojan armies mill around like sheep waiting to be milked.
Christmas revellers and hawkers mill around the cafe.

The Lower school students won't have time to loiter around town all day.
Students will not be permitted to loiter in the hallways after school hours.
Students are not to sit in or loiter around the vehicles.
Students may not loiter in hallways, stairways, the cafeteria, or restrooms.
EVER AT LCI AND ANY OTHER FORUM THAT YOU LOITER, STALK.
Do not loiter outside the building, especially after dark.
Begin loiter at the specified Latitude and Longitude.
Foreigners loiter outside Anchorvale CC to watch g..
Students should not loiter in the parking lot.
Loiter, or be permitted to loiter, in or about any roomwherein any gambling game is operated or conducted.