windmill
/ˈwɪn(d)mɪl/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈwɪn(d)mɪl/
windmill
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Clear final sound
win - dmill -> windmill
Myanmar meaning
Full entry
(က) လေရဟတ်။
(ခ) လေအား လျှပ်စစ်စက်။
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- ‘On either side of her rose hills covered with vineyards and the gently rotating white sails of the windmills used for crushing grapes.’
- ‘Visitors to Wiltshire's only working windmill have been warned that it is being targeted by thieves.’
- ‘From the Middle Ages the tail vane of windmills, continuously steering the sails into the veering wind, are well-known early examples of guidance by feedback.’
- ‘When soldiers returning from the Crusades introduced wind technology to Europe in the eleventh century, the windmill helped usher in the Industrial Revolution.’
- ‘He gave himself the credit for every good thing, without any recognition to the other animals, such as the building of the windmill, and the victory of the Battle of the Windmill.’
- ‘Lighthouses, for instance, have a certain romance about them, and Dutch windmills are considered highly picturesque.’
- ‘Seven corn windmills were working in the district by 1614.’
- ‘Once the grain has been threshed from the sheaves of locally grown organic wheat it will be turned into flour in the windmill, and that in turn will be turned into bread all in the one day.’
- ‘As a patrician of Dordrecht and a patriot, he paid homage to Holland as a trim and handsome place where even the windmills rotated their sails with a Sunday sobriety; much as his contemporary Teniers depicted Flanders.’
- ‘Using ancient technology unique to the region, windmills grind the wheat harvested in June through September, the windy period during which wind speeds can get as high as 100 mph.’
- ‘From the seventh century on, peasants designed and built adobe horizontal-vaned windmills to harness the wind power and grind wheat into flour.’
- ‘A beautiful landscape shows several traditional thatched huts, but they all sport the sails seen on windmills across Holland.’
- ‘Fittingly the book ends with York's only surviving windmill, Holgate Mill.’
- ‘A tourist boat putters by in the canal; the sails of the huge windmill overhead cast long, cool shadows across the road.’
- ‘In the past windmills were used to grind corn into flour.’
- ‘Clocks told the time, windmills ground corn, cranes lifted things and so on.’
- ‘One of the most popular photographs is the one of the windmill at the Windmill Hill business park.’
- ‘Jones picks up the trail again by noticing that although the wind is blowing in one direction, the sails on a nearby windmill are moving in the opposite direction - it's a signal to a circling airplane.’
- ‘Heedless of the curse, he put an upturned shaving bowl on his head for a helmet, climbed on his horse and rushed forward - only to plunge his lance into the sail of a windmill and be lifted from his saddle into clear air.’
- ‘Listening to the dialogue between the wind and the windmill produced a feeling of old fashioned romance.’
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