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tower-mill

/tou-er-mil/US // ˈtaʊ ərˌmɪl //

塔式工厂,塔式磨坊,塔式研磨机,塔式碾压机

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a windmill of which only the cap rotates to face the sails into the wind.

Examples

  • The “doctorate” Duke claims is from an anti-Semitic Ukranian “diploma mill” as described by the State Department.

  • The language school did not focus on providing instruction but instead was a visa mill.

  • Not even Radio Bemba (Cuban slang for the rumor mill) had picked up the signal.

  • The bell tower bellows loudly when a little muscle power is put into it.

  • Her brother perished in the North Tower of the World Trade Center in the 9/11 attacks.

  • But men we had known and trails we had followed furnished us plenty of grist for the conversational mill.

  • The tower has four clock faces, pinnacles at the angles, and a steep slate roof and is 120 feet high.

  • At the Flagstaff Tower the 74th and the remainder of the 38th suddenly told their officers that they would obey them no longer.

  • The height of the tower from the level of the street is 105 feet, the slated towers over the lateral pediments being smaller.

  • Sounds rotten, but that's their style; and you've been through the mill at home enough to know what it is to be knifed socially.