Balloon vs Windmill - What's the difference?
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An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
Such an object as a child’s toy.
Such an object designed to transport people through the air.
(medicine) A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
A speech bubble.
A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
(architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
(chemistry) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
(pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell.
A game played with a large inflated ball.
(engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
To increase or expand rapidly.
To go up or voyage in a balloon.
To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.
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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:
In intransitive terms the difference between balloon and windmill
is that balloon is to go up or voyage in a balloon while windmill is of a rotating part of a machine, to (become disengaged and) rotate freely.balloon
English
Noun
(wikipedia balloon) (en noun)- the balloon of St. Paul's Cathedral in London
Synonyms
* (inflatable object) * toy balloon * (transport) hot-air balloon, Montgolfier * (in medicine) * (speech bubble) speech bubble, fumettoDerived terms
* barrage balloon * balloon animal * balloon-back * balloon barrage * balloon clock * balloon club * balloon flower * ballooning * balloonist * balloon sail * balloon tyre * balloon vine * go down like a lead balloon * hot-air balloon * pilot balloon * trial balloon * weather balloon * when the balloon goes upVerb
(en verb)- His stomach ballooned from eating such a large meal.
- Prices will balloon if we don't act quickly.
See also
* airship * ball * ballonet * blimp * dirigible * gondola * zeppelinwindmill
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."