Dictionary entry
Wroth
Pronunciation: /rəʊθ/
Pronunciation
/rəʊθ/
Myanmar Meaning
ဒေါသထွက်သော။
Definition
windmill /'wÇndmÇl/ n (က) ေလရဟတ္။ (ခ) ေလအား လွ်ပ္စစ္စက္။
Examples
- ‘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.’