windmill

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.

   “Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.”

2. isim The building or structure containing such machinery.

   “There was once a windmill and a baker's shop in the middle of Rabbitland. Three rabbits, Rodney, Rudolph and Rosie lived in the windmill.”

3. isim A wind turbine, a device for converting wind power into electricity.

   ““I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. They’re noisy. They kill the birds. You want to see a bird graveyard? Go under a windmill someday. You’ll see more birds than you’ve ever seen in your life.””

4. isim A child's toy consisting of vanes mounted on a stick that rotate when blown by a person or by the wind.
5. isim A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop.
6. isim A pitch where the pitcher swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball.
7. isim A guitar move where the strumming hand mimics a turning windmill.
8. isim A breakdancing move in which the dancer rolls their torso continuously in a circular path on the floor, across the upper chest, shoulders and back, while twirling the legs in a V shape in the air.
9. isim Any of various muscle exercises in which a large deal of the body makes a great circle, typically one where a kettlebell is raised overhead and the torso is rotated to the other side with the hand reaching its foot (hitting the core, glutes, hamstrings, trapezius, rhomboids, deltoids and rotator cuffs) but sometimes even a windshield wiper.
10. isim Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Byasa, the wings of which resemble the vanes of a windmill.
11. isim The false shower.
12. isim An imaginary enemy, but presented as real.

    “to fight windmills”

13. isim The act of windmilling.
14. isim A tactic in which a piece repeatedly gains material, while simultaneously creating an inescapable series of alternating direct and discovered checks.
15. fiil To rotate with a sweeping motion.

    “She ran down the hill, windmilling her arms with glee.”

16. fiil To (become disengaged and) rotate freely.

    “The axle broke and the wheel windmilled in place briefly before careening through the wall.”

17. fiil To be rotated by the force of the fluid passing through (the propeller or turbine rotor).

    “The stern dropped just as the captain began to get his control room crew to react to orders again. His head struck an instrument console. What slim hopes his crew had died with him. The Politovskiy was falling backwards, her propeller windmilling the wrong way as she slid to the bottom of the sea.”

18. fiil To move in order to rotate the penis in a circle (similar to the rotation of a windmill).