windmills in English

noun

1

a building with sails or vanes that turn in the wind and generate power to grind grain into flour.

In the past windmills were used to grind corn into flour.

verb

1

(with reference to a person's arms) move or be moved around in a circle in a manner suggestive of the rotating sails or vanes of a windmill.

An avant-garde version of Ashlee Simpson, Thomas alternated between banshee wails and guttural growls to pre-recorded noise, while windmilling her arm to sometimes strike the strings of her guitar.

Use "windmills" in a sentence

1. Windmills for sale!

2. I see some windmills.

3. The United States currently has 13,000 windmills generating electricity.

4. Horizontal-axle windmills were later used extensively in Northwestern Europe to grind flour beginning in the 1180s, and many Dutch windmills still exist.

5. It's not because we're going to build a bajillion windmills.

6. 17 I helped fix windmills, vaccinate cattle, and do other chores.

7. The castle and the windmills are Consuegra's most important monuments.

8. Rural electrification following the Great Depression made farm windmills obsolete.

9. For centuries, however, windmills were at the cutting edge of technology.

10. I felt that just by being there I was tilting at windmills.

11. The windmills were later used to drain lakes, creating the famous polders.

12. The picturesque windmills of the Netherlands pumped water out of dike-enclosed lowlands.

13. In addition, wind power is created using propeller-like windmills that could generate electricity.

14. By the 14th century, Dutch windmills were in use to drain areas of the Rhine delta.

15. In Denmark, we will drive all the cars in Denmark from windmills, not from oil.

16. And a number of water mills and windmills are still in operation here and there.

17. A windmill rotor with adjustable-pitch blades, as well as windmills with such a rotor

18. Yet Lilliputian windmills, water mills, solar panels and biomass furnaces could have a big collective impact.

19. Researchers are applying this concept to make more-efficient boat rudders, water turbines, windmills, and helicopter rotor blades.

20. However, high-tech wind turbines have replaced windmills to function as an alternative source of energy.

21. This case concerns a wind farm in Tarifa, where an additional 90 windmills are to be installed.

22. In the Altamont Pass in California some 2000 microprocessor controlled windmills have been erected to supply commercial electricity.

23. Still today you will see many of those Characteristical windmills Don Quijote was fighting with in all the land

24. In one famous episode, he attacks a group of windmills that he sees as a band of dangerous giants.

25. 20 They use solar collectors and windmills for energy supply and each region aims at self-sufficiency in proteins.

26. For the past 12 years the Government have behaved like latter day Don Quixotes tilting at windmills and all the other renewables.

27. What if we imagined the Upper East Side with green roofs, and streams winding through the city, and windmills supplying the power we need?

28. Context example: note the Assonant words and syllables in 'tilting at windmills' Similar: same (closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree)

29. A good way of making electricity is by letting cheeky clouds with lips blow windmills round and round but silly Mark Zuckerberg chose dirty old coal.

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31. The SeaGen tidal machines, which are due to be installed off the Orkney Islands in a 100 megawatt site, function as underwater windmills, except their rotors are driven by currents and not the wind.

32. In the present invention, when rotating and actuating wind turbine blades by using wind, a plurality of wind scooping windmills (10) having a rectangular shape are manufactured perpendicularly coupled to strengthen rotational force even under weather conditions involving light or weak wind.

33. Arriving in Amish Country allows you to step back in time to enjoy a slower, more peaceful pace – one where the horse & buggy remains a primary form of transportation, and where windmills dot the landscape, providing power harnessed from nature.

34. Bitum Zamboanga City Little League, Zamboanga City, Philippines 1992 David Bjornson Wiesbaden Little League, Wiesbaden, Germany 1968 Hans Bjors Barrington Little League, Barrington, Illinois 1981 Jelle Blaauw Windmills Apeldoorn Little League, Apeldoorn, Netherlands 2007 Terry Blabas North Roseland Little League, Chicago, Illinois 1967

35. Quick definitions from WordNet (Assonant) adjective: having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables adjective: having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables ("Note the Assonant words and syllables in `tilting at windmills'")

36. Assonant: 1 adj having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables “note the Assonant words and syllables in `tilting at windmills'” Synonyms: same closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree adj having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in