Usually means: Structure converting wind energy mechanically.
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  1. windmill: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. windmill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. windmill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. windmill: Collins English Dictionary
  5. windmill: Vocabulary.com
  6. Windmill, windmill: Wordnik
  7. windmill: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. windmill: Wiktionary
  9. windmill: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. windmill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. windmill: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. windmill: Dictionary.com
  13. windmill (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. windmill: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Windmill (Hot Dog Restaurant), The Windmill (film), The Windmill (restaurant), Windmill (TV series), Windmill (b-boy move), Windmill (breakdance move), Windmill (card game), Windmill (chess), Windmill (disambiguation), Windmill (juggling), Windmill (sailing dinghy), Windmill (short story), Windmill (solitaire), Windmill (song), Windmill (testing framework), Windmill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Windmill: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. windmill: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. windmill: Rhymezone
  19. Windmill: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. windmill: Free Dictionary
  21. windmill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. windmill: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. windmill: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Windmill (disambiguation), windmill: Encyclopedia

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  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. windmill: Idioms

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  1. Windmill: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

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  1. windmill: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the windmill: Urban Dictionary

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(Note: See windmilled as well.)

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noun:  A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.
noun:  The structure containing such machinery.
noun:  A child's toy consisting of vanes mounted on a stick that rotate when blown by a person or by the wind.
noun:  (basketball) A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop.
noun:  (baseball) A pitch where the pitcher swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball.
noun:  A guitar move where the strumming hand mimics a turning windmill.
noun:  A breakdancing move in which the dancer rolls his/her 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.
noun:  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.
noun:  Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Byasa, the wings of which resemble the vanes of a windmill.
noun:  (juggling) The false shower.
noun:  (figurative) An imaginary enemy, but presented as real.
noun:  The act of windmilling.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To rotate with a sweeping motion.
verb:  (intransitive, of a rotating part of a machine) To (become disengaged and) rotate freely.
verb:  (intransitive, aviation, nautical, of a propeller or turbine rotor) To be rotated by the force of the fluid passing through (the propeller or turbine rotor).
verb:  To move in order to rotate the penis in a circle (similar to the rotation of a windmill).

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