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• Windmilling the arms and rotating the hand from the wrist are examples of circumduction.From the entry circumduction
• A windmill transmits motion to the ground level via a vertical driveshaft, which operates a water pump.From the entry driveshaft
• Aerogenerators or wind turbines are modern versions of windmills, making electricity from the energy in moving air.1999, Ian Graham, Barbara Taylor, John Farndon, Chris Oxlade, Science Encyclopedia, Parragon. From the entry aerogenerator
• The wreckage of an old wooden windmill fallen among the rocks.1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry pickethouse
• A black wooden toy windmill on a stick meant for a scare-the-birds was warped and immovable.1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 22. From the entry scare-the-birds
• The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […]…. From the entry override
• The bowling green can be seen in the hoppet, but the windmill has been removed.1926, Edward Arthur Fitch, William Herbert Dalton, Charlotte Fell-Smith, The Essex Review, page 139. From the entry hoppet
• Windmills or wind-engines, are used, to some extent, in the Cape Colony.1901 October 11, Colonel F. V. Corbett, “Report on Irrigation in Natal”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number…. From the entry wind engine
• The same snow lies over the fens and marshes and freezes Quixote's windmills to a standstill against the cindery Flemish sky.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy. From the entry cindery
• Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […]…. From the entry procure
• This very morning we begin rebuilding the windmill, and we will build all through the winter, rain or shine.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […]…. From the entry rain or shine
• Besides, Suzanne had already thrown her bonnet over the windmill.1934, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors. From the entry throw one's cap over the windmill
• Now there is another subject in which Donald Trump’s expert knowledge surpasses that of everybody else: wind turbines, though he calls them windmills.2019 December 24, Richard Luscombe, “‘I never understood wind’: Trump goes on bizarre tirade against wind turbines”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry wind turbine
• The fewmets have hit the windmill!1969, Beard & Kennedy, Bored of the Rings, page 54. From the entry fewmet
• Suppose you had decided to follow Snowball, with his moonshine of windmills—Snowball, who, as we now know, was no better than a criminal?”1945, George Orwell, chapter 5, in Animal Farm. From the entry moonshine
• I'm as giddy as a windmill.1907, Ernest George Henham, Arminel of the West, page 252. From the entry giddy as a windmill
• The thatched semispherical huts of palm tree leaves and tamarisk were also interesting, as was the windmill, identical with those already seen in Sistan.1902, Arnold Henry Savage Landor, Across Coveted Lands. From the entry semispherical
• Those big windmills are so pathetic and so bad, so expensive to operate, and they have to be rebuilt all the time and they start to rust and rot.2025 September 23, Donald Trump, speech at United Nations. From the entry fire up
• But even if the moral costs do not concern you, then be concerned with the financial costs; the billions we are all paying to fight windmills.2025 January 19, Heba Gowayed, “The Laken Riley Act exposes Democrats’ hypocrisy on immigration”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry fight windmills
• Even Catherine’s own mother scandalized her daughter by succumbing to the contagion of the place, and “throwing her cap over the windmill,” as the French have it.1914, E. A. Brayley Hodgetts, The Life of Catherine the Great of Russia. From the entry throw one's cap over the windmill
• There may be recorded or potential archaeological associations with many of the names seen in earlier chapters, referring, e.g., to windmills, dovecotes, early pits and quarries, chapels, gold-hoards, and mounds.2014, John Field, A History of English Field Names. From the entry goldhoard

Meaning of windmill

1. noun A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.
2. noun The building or structure containing such machinery.
3. noun A wind turbine, a device for converting wind power into electricity.

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How do you use windmill in a sentence?

Windmill is used as a noun and verb. For example: “She ran down the hill, windmilling her arms with glee.”

What is a short sentence with windmill?

“to fight windmills”

What does windmill mean?

Windmill means a machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.