- 看过 windmill 的人也看了 :
- leaf
- blade
- draft
- propeller
- vane
- ventilator
- air conditioner
- flabellum
- palm leaf
windmill 的 2 个定义
- any of various machines for grinding, pumping, etc., driven by the force of the wind acting upon a number of vanes or sails.
- a wind generator; wind plant.
- Aeronautics. a small air turbine with blades, like those of an airplane propeller, exposed on a moving aircraft and driven by the air, used to operate gasoline pumps, radio apparatus, etc.
- an imaginary opponent, wrong, etc.: to tilt at windmills.
- Aeronautics. to rotate or cause to rotate solely under the force of a passing airstream.
windmill 近义词
等同于 fan
更多windmill例句
- Especially a romantic one, who isn’t unhinged or tilting at windmills.
- Colleagues have cautioned him against chasing windmills in a quest that McConnell himself describes as “a little bit quixotic.”
- There’s even up, in Yorkshire, a working windmill that actually produces flour.
- Adding to the citizens’ misery are rolling electrical blackouts, possibly related to the fact that the state legislature has banned all sources of electricity except windmills and 9-volt batteries.
- Tim Hwang recognizes he is tilting at windmills here, trillion-dollar windmills.
- Up next: a windmill prototype, which is a few months from being finished.
- But the American Dream is such a pretty windmill to chase that it's not a problem to get new arrivals to join in the pursuit.
- They are, across the board, quixotic characters hacking at the windmill of language.
- We are of as much consequence to an army, as wind to a windmill: the wings can't be put in motion without us.
- And on a slight rise, but so concealed from him by the willows that only the great wings showed, stood the windmill.
- The mills were presumably driven for the most part by water, though we have a reference to a windmill as early as the year 833.
- The windmill shown in the sketch is one that will always face the wind, and it never requires adjustment.
- With your colors to wear, I shall have the honor of breaking a lance against the biggest windmill in the world.