| 单词 | pinwheel |
| 释义 | pinwheel (once / 44268 pages) n A pinwheel is a spinning toy that looks like a flower on a stick. Blow on it or run through the garden with one and watch it spin. Some things, like peppermints, have a pinwheel pattern. A pinwheel is a stick with twisted paper or plastic pieces that turn as they catch the wind. The original pinwheel, first called a whirligig, was invented in the nineteenth century by a woman who imagined children running while holding them in the air, which is exactly how pinwheels are usually played with. Before the toy, a pinwheel was a gear in a train's mechanism, and also a spinning firework also called a Catherine wheel. WORD FAMILYpinwheel: pinwheels USAGE EXAMPLESWeighted by the droplets of oil, the pinwheel spun. Los Angeles Times(Dec 22, 2016) One year it was planted in stars and stripes, another as pinwheels of pink and purple and another in an Olympics theme. Golf Digest(Oct 28, 2016) Roast chicken takes the form of an elegant poultry roulade, each pinwheel encased in a strip of crisp, rendered skin. Wall Street Journal(Oct 26, 2016) 1n a toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic that is pinned to a stick and spins when it is pointed into the wind Syn|Hyper pinwheel wind collector plaything, toy an artifact designed to be played with 2n a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire Syn|Hyper catherine wheel firework, pyrotechnic (usually plural) a device with an explosive that burns at a low rate and with colored flames; can be used to illuminate areas or send signals etc. 3n a wheel that has numerous pins that are set at right angles to its rim he spun the pinwheel and it stopped with the pointer on `Go' Hyper wheel a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines) 4n perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels Syn|Hyper Aeonium haworthii subshrub, suffrutex low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base |
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