英语词汇“windmill”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

　

单词	windmill
释义	Trends of windmill View usage for: windmill (wɪndmɪl) Word forms: plural windmills countable noun A windmill is a building with long pieces of wood on the outside which turn around as the wind blows and provide energy for a machine that crushes grain. A windmill is also a similar structure that is used to convert the power of the wind into electricity. windmill in British English (ˈwɪndˌmɪl, ˈwɪnˌmɪl) noun 1. a machine for grinding or pumping driven by a set of adjustable vanes or sails that are caused to turn by the force of the wind 2. the set of vanes or sails that drives such a mill 3. Also called: whirligig British a toy consisting of plastic or paper vanes attached to a stick in such a manner that they revolve like the sails of a windmill US and Canadian name: pinwheel 4. an imaginary opponent or evil (esp in the phrase tilt at or fight windmills) 5. a small air-driven propeller fitted to a light aircraft to drive auxiliary equipment Compare ram-air turbine 6. an informal name for helicopter 7. an informal name for propeller (sense 1) 8. an informal name for accommodation bill verb 9. to move or cause to move like the arms of a windmill 10. (intransitive) (of an aircraft propeller, rotor of a turbine, etc) to rotate as a result of the force of a current of air rather than under power windmill in American English (ˈwɪndˌmɪl) noun 1. a mill operated by the wind's rotation of large, oblique sails or vanes radiating from a shaft: used as a source of power for grinding grain, pumping water, generating electricity, etc. 2. anything like a windmill, as a propellerlike toy (pinwheel) revolved by wind verb transitive, verb intransitive 3. to rotate like a windmill Idioms: fight windmills Examples of 'windmill' in a sentence windmill We are looking for an international partner for a windmill power venture. Times, Sunday Times (2008) The goalposts are considerably more substantial than a cricket stump and a plastic windmill. Times, Sunday Times (2007) We should not pay politicians to sacrifice manufacturing and build windmills. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The local news showed a whole montage of people flailing like windmills before descending. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Some people seem to think that the world can be powered by windmills and controlled by clicking a mouse. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Millers were well known for forecasting local weather, crucial for keeping windmills working well and safe in high winds. Times, Sunday Times (2011) And yet the old windmills were also set ablaze when their sails span too fast, or were blown to smithereens. Times, Sunday Times (2012) THE row at Westminster over green energy is producing enough hot air to drive a thousand windmills. The Sun (2012) THE arms went round like windmills for 20 seconds. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Last weekend as blizzards swept across the moors, the windmill didn't turn. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Wind farms, rather than windmills, are raising the hackles. Times, Sunday Times (2008) When two "Cousins' met they must have seemed like windmills. Michael Burleigh Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the GreatWar (2005) We can do these things, slowly, but must understand we are doing more than just building windmills. Times, Sunday Times (2009) He said: 'I am going to get you a rendering of what these windmills will look like from your course. Times, Sunday Times (2012) It was a fantastic house to grow up in because, to the side of our garden, there was a working windmill. Times, Sunday Times (2013) But I still wish they'd made it look like a windmill. Times, Sunday Times (2009) In other languages windmill British English: windmill /ˈwɪndˌmɪl; ˈwɪnˌmɪl/ NOUN A windmill is a tall building with sails which turn as the wind blows. Windmills are used to grind grain or pump water. American English: windmill Arabic: طَاحُونَةُ الهَوَاء Brazilian Portuguese: moinho de vento Chinese: 风车 Croatian: vjetrenjača Czech: větrný mlýn Danish: vindmølle Dutch: windmolen European Spanish: molino de viento Finnish: tuulimylly French: moulin à vent German: Windmühle Greek: ανεμόμυλος Italian: mulino a vento Japanese: 風車小屋 Korean: 풍차 Norwegian: vindmølle Polish: wiatrak European Portuguese: moinho de vento Romanian: moară de vânt Russian: ветряная мельница Latin American Spanish: molino de viento Swedish: väderkvarn Thai: กังหันลม Turkish: değirmen Ukrainian: вітряк Vietnamese: cối xay gió Chinese translation of 'windmill' windmill (ˈwɪndmɪl) n (c) 风(風)车(車) (fēngchē) (个(個), gè)
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