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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Windmill \Wind"mill`\, n.
A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the
action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate
from a horizontal shaft.
--Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails. vb. 1 (context transitive intransitive English) To rotate (itself) with a sweeping motion. 2 (context intransitive English) Of a rotating part of a machine, to (become disengaged and) rotate freely.
WordNet
n. a mill that is powered by the wind
generator that extracts usable energy from winds [syn: aerogenerator, wind generator]
Wikipedia
A windmill is a mill that converts the energy of wind into rotational energy by means of vanes called sails or blades. Centuries ago, windmills usually were used to mill grain, pump water, or both. Thus they often were gristmills, windpumps, or both. The majority of modern windmills take the form of wind turbines used to generate electricity, or windpumps used to pump water, either for land drainage or to extract groundwater.
Windmill is a solitaire card game played with two decks of playing cards. It is so called because the initial layout resembles a windmill's sails.
First, an ace is placed at the center. Then eight cards are placed around in such a way that the layout looks like a cross. The ace forms the primary foundation and the eight cards form the reserve. The gaps at the corner of the "sails" are reserved for kings and form the secondary foundations. The suits of the kings to be placed on the secondary foundations are disregarded. The object of the game is to build the primary foundation up to king with 52 cards in it and the secondary foundations down to ace with 13 cards each in them. All foundations are built regardless of suit.
The illustration below shows how the tableau is initially laid out. (A) is for the primary foundation, R for the reserve (8 free cells) and (K) for the secondary foundations, empty at first.
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The game starts by moving cards from the reserve to either the primary foundation or, if available, to one of the secondary foundations. Gaps in the reserve must be immediately filled by cards from the wastepile or, if the wastepile is empty, from the stock. If no more moves are possible from the reserve, the player deals cards from the stock one at a time to the wastepile, searching for playable cards. The player may also move the top card of a secondary foundation to the primary foundation, provided that the next card to be placed on the primary foundation comes from either the wastepile or the reserve.
When the primary foundation reaches a king, an ace can be placed over it. But when a secondary foundation reaches an ace, it can longer be built unless the ace is moved to the primary foundation.
The game is won when all cards are in the foundations: 52 on the primary foundation and 13 on each of the four secondary foundations.
There is also an alternate variation wherein the direction of building on the primary and secondary foundations is reversed. In this variation, the primary foundation starts with a laid-out king and is built down while the secondary foundations start with the first available aces and are built up.
The Windmill (or briefly Mill) is a popular b-boying move. The breaker rolls his torso continuously in a circular path on the floor, across the upper chest/shoulders/back, while twirling his legs in a V-shape through the air.
is a Japanese adult visual novel video game developer. They also have a sub-brand, Windmill Oasis, which produces high-quality games with 2D animation.
A windmill is an engine powered by the wind to produce energy.
Windmill may also refer to:
"Windmill" is a song and a single made by the German power metal band Helloween taken from the album Chameleon. This single has the same b-sides as the single Step Out of Hell, and the same cover. "Windmill" was released in Europe and "Step Out of Hell" in Japan.
In chess, a windmill is a tactic in which a combination of discovered checks and regular checks, usually by a rook and a bishop, can win massive amounts of material. This tactic is also sometimes referred to as a see-saw.
The Windmill is a two-person one-design sailing dinghy designed by Clark Mills in 1953. It was designed to be inexpensive and buildable by amateur woodworkers, such as father-and-son team. Originally conceived as a follow-on to Mills' popular Optimist dinghy, it proved itself fast and competitive without the complexity of a spinnaker or trapeze.
Construction of the boat is somewhat unorthodox: design has no frames at all. The plywood hull is constructed on the jig with longerons forming the hull shape; the longerons are in turn stiffened by two thwarts and the transom piece. The result is lightweight yet strong, quick-to-construct hull. This, combined with good performance of the boat has made it popular with homebuilders. Glass-reinforced plastic is also allowed as hull material.
The class has a strong membership with boats racing in a number of areas around the US, large fleets in the Ohio, New Hampshire, Chesapeake and Florida travel around the country to attend regional regattas. The class nationals are held at a different venue each year in July allowing racers to see new places. The class is often raced with family teams of husband and wife as well as father daughter teams. In 2012 over 25 boats attend the Nationals at Rock Hall Maryland.
Most recently 37 boats attended the 2014 Nationals at Hoover Sailing Club in Ohio. The class has a quality manufacturer of fiberglass hulls. Information and officer contacts are available on the class webpage: http://windmillclass.com as well as the Facebook page Windmill Class Association.
Windmill is a cross-platform, cross-browser software testing framework, primarily used for testing Web applications.
Most users write tests in Python or in JavaScript, but there is also a library that provides Ruby support. Windmill also provides a recorder tool that allows writing tests without learning a programming language.
Windmill supports all major modern Web browsers, and runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Windmill is an indie pop band led by London-based musician Matthew Thomas Dillon.
Windmill have released 3 full length albums: 2007's Puddle City Racing Lights, 2009's Epcot Starfields, ''Above Duffle Farm ''and ''Black Is Beautiful ''in 2013 and Wanderlust in 2016. Windmill has released music on indie labels Melodic Records in the UK, Friendly Fire Recordings in the US, Greenland in Europe and Beat Records in Japan. Dillon also released 2012's October on Tennis Courts, under the name of Outer Albert.
Windmill's sound is piano-based, featuring Dillon's distinctive high-pitched, warbly vocals, lush, layered arrangements, and often minimal use of drums. Dillon is the band's songwriter and sole permanent member, performing most of the instruments on Windmill's recordings.
In juggling, a windmill, or false shower, is a juggling pattern which resembles the shower. It is often considered a prerequisite or preparation for Mills Mess, or the other way around. One hand throws outside (or reverse cascade) and the other throws underarm, so that the outside hand catches while crossed over the underarm hand.
Windmill was a British television series, usually shown on Sunday lunchtimes on BBC2, which ran from 26 August 1985 to 3 April 1988, presented by Chris Serle, its name taken from the BBC television archives being housed at Windmill Road in West London at the time. It was one of the first shows fully to exploit the potential of the BBC's archive, showing during its run hundreds of television clips from the 1940s to the 1980s, always based around a specific theme. Among the many shows represented were The Morecambe and Wise Show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Sky at Night, Whicker's World, Nationwide, Doctor Who, Steptoe and Son, Blue Peter, and the original 1950s Watch With Mother series. A number of clips were also shown from the television newsreels of the late 1940s.
Weekly features included a regular "Comedy Classic", always fitting with each episode's theme, and "All Your Own Work", which featured films made in the past by members of the public (often those included in earlier BBC series such as Caught in Time and " Everybody's Doing It"). Each edition also featured a studio guest, who would pick their favourites from the archives and whose own appearances would usually also be shown; Richard Stilgoe, for example, chose a clip from Jack Rosenthal's play The Evacuees, fitting in with the episode's "Childhood" theme, and a clip from his own series And Now the Good News was shown.
From 4 December 1988 the series was replaced by Boxpops, another archive-based series but much faster-paced and pop-orientated with no studio presenter.
Usage examples of "windmill".
He could see windmills working, and he could even see an artesian well blowing water straight up into the air.
He could see fields of good alfalfa hay, all irrigated by the water flowing from the artesian wells and pumped by the windmills.
We have six free-flowing artesian wells on the place and twenty windmills.
And whenever he came he made it a point to drop in, usually at the windmill shop first, and then upon Babbie at the house.
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A visit in May to the Italian cantatrice separated from her husband, would render the maiden an accomplished flinger of caps over the windmills.
Cyrus Harding could have utilized the second fall which flowed into the Mercy to establish his motive power, the first being already occupied with moving the felting mill, but, after some consultation, it was decided that a simple windmill should be built on Prospect Heights.
Corvallis would lie in ruins, its hoarded libraries, its fragile industry, its windmills and flickering electric lights, all vanished forever into the lowering dark age.
He was, however, so in the habit of fighting windmills and making mountains of molehills that he could not at first glance see any sudden presentment with a normal vision.
Bristling windmill palms thrived with California laurels and black myrobalan plums.
Norfolk has its windmills, Kent has its oast houses, and we have rhubarb sheds.
Windmill Hill Cavern, is a well-known ossiferous cave situated near Brixham, on the brow of a hill composed of Devonian limestone.
I drew up to our old windmill, the Widow Steavens came out to meet me.
If he took the road to Weesp and then south to Nederhorst he would go through the town and leave the car well before the windmill.
When it settled she began to glide-run towards it, whooping exuberantly, arms windmilling for balance.