What is the difference between windmill and sail?
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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:
(nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.
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(uncountable) The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use this power for travel or transport.
A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
(dated) A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft. Plural sail .
The blade of a windmill.
A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
(fishing) A sailfish.
(paleontology) an outward projection of the
Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
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To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power.
To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
To set sail; to begin a voyage.
To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
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To move briskly.
As nouns the difference between windmill and sail
is that windmill is a machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails while sail is (nautical) a piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along the sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.As verbs the difference between windmill and sail
is that windmill is (intransitive) to rotate (itself) with a sweeping motion while sail is to be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power.windmill
English
(wikipedia windmill)Noun
(en noun)Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
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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."
Quotations
* 1978 , Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in the long grass , page 97: *: The engine windmilled in the afternoon heat for a few seconds, then gargled to a reluctant death.See also
* windpumpsail
English
(wikipedia sail)Etymology 1
From (etyl) 'to cut'. More at saw.Noun
(en noun)- When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive / And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind;
- Let's go for a sail .
- Twenty sail were in sight.
- We caught three sails today.
- Like an eagle soaring / To weather his broad sails .
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* balloon sail * by sail * drag sail * dragon sail * point of sail * sailback * sailboard * sailboat * sailcloth * sailer * sailfish * sailing * studding sail * set sail * take the wind out of someone's sails * topsail * working sailEtymology 2
(etyl) , cognate to earlier Middle Low German segelen and its descendant Low German sailen.Verb
(en verb)- We sail for Australia tomorrow.
- As is a winged messenger of heaven, / When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds, / And sails upon the bosom of the air.
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