windmill
风车,大风车,顺风车,刮风车
Related Words
Definitions
- 1
- : 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.
- 1
- : Aeronautics. to rotate or cause to rotate solely under the force of a passing airstream.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
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.