Oil vs Windmill - What's the difference?
oil | windmill |
Liquid fat.
Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= An oil painting.
* 1973 , John Ulric Nef, Search for meaning: the autobiography of a nonconformist (page 89)
To lubricate with oil.
* 1900 , L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23:
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 To grease with oil for cooking.
A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.
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, title= 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 where the strumming hand mimics a turning windmill.
(juggling) The false shower.
(intransitive) To rotate (itself) with a sweeping motion.
* 1999 , Jon Sharpe, Texas Hellion :
* 2005 , Gideon Defoe, The Pirates!: in an adventure with Ahab , page 140:
Of a rotating part of a machine, to (become disengaged and) rotate freely.
* 2000 , Walter J. Boyne, Philip Handleman, Brassey's Air Combat Reader , page 18:
* 2004 , Deborah Bedford, If I Had You :
* 2006 , James R. Hansen, First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong , page 134:
As nouns the difference between oil and windmill
is that oil is while windmill is a machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.As a verb windmill is
(intransitive) to rotate (itself) with a sweeping motion.oil
English
(wikipedia oil)Alternative forms
* oyl (obsolete)Noun
Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices). It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.}}
- Yet, in another way, I was unable to put Picasso's oils in the same class as Cezanne's, or even (which will no doubt shock many readers) as Renoir's.
Derived terms
* burn the midnight oil * castor oil * cod liver oil * cottonseed oil * croton oil * crude oil * essential oil * evening primrose oil * gorli oil * grapeseed oil * mineral oil * motor oil * mustard oil * neck oil * North Sea oil * oil baron * oil field * oilman * oil paint * oil painting * oil refinery * oil sand * oil shale * oilskin * oilsmoke * oil stove * oil tanker * oil well * oily * olive oil * peak oil * pine oil * pour oil on troubled waters * rape oil * rapeseed oil * rock oil * sesame oil * shale oil * snake oil * sunflower oil * sweet oil * tall oil * tung oil * valve oil * vegetable oilVerb
(en verb)- Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.
citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring.
Derived terms
* unoilAnagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----windmill
English
(wikipedia windmill)Noun
(en noun)Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
The Adaptable Gas Turbine, passage=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.}}
Derived terms
* tilt at windmillsVerb
(en verb)- She ran down the hill, windmilling her arms with glee.
- True to her word, her hips windmilled in a frenzy.
- As the Pirate Captain strained at the ham, the whale began to spasm and buck about in the water. Its tail thrashed wildly up and down. Its flippers windmilled in the air uselessly.
- The axle broke and the wheel windmilled in place briefly before careening through the wall.
- When he went to switch on his rotary engine again, the Le Rhone refused to pick up. Nothing happened! The propeller simply windmilled in the slip stream. Garros knew immediately what was wrong and cursed himself for his imbecility.
- The propeller windmilled in front of them. Creede tried to start the engine. It growled like something angry, died away. "We're ... gonna have to ... ride this thing ... to the ground."
- [...] the propeller blade on number-four engine windmilled in the air stream. "I wasn't too concerned about it, really," recalls Butchart. "B-29 engines are not all that dependable."
