windmill, aerogenerator, wind generator
(noun) generator that extracts usable energy from winds
windmill
(noun) a mill that is powered by the wind
Source: WordNet® 3.1
windmill (plural windmills)
A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.
The structure containing such machinery.
A child's toy consisting of vanes mounted on a stick that rotate when blown by a person or by the wind.
(basketball) A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop.
A guitar move where the strumming hand mimics a turning windmill.
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.
Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Byasa, the wings of which resemble the vanes of a windmill.
(juggling) The false shower.
(metaphorical) An imaginary enemy, but presented as real.
• (child's toy): pinwheel
• (imaginary enemy): straw man
• (machinery): machine
• (child's toy): toy
• (child's toy): hand windmill
windmill (third-person singular simple present windmills, present participle windmilling, simple past and past participle windmilled)
(transitive, intransitive) To rotate with a sweeping motion.
(intransitive) Of a rotating part of a machine, to (become disengaged and) rotate freely.
Source: Wiktionary
Wind"mill`, n.
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 June 2025
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
