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# turbine

«turbine» in Mova's school dictionary: **a machine with blades that are turned by moving wind…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (turbine, turbines)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A turbine is a machine with blades that are turned by moving wind, water, steam or gas, and the turning is used to make electricity or power. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turbine/#m1)

2) A wind turbine is a tall tower with big blades that the wind spins to make electricity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turbine/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, turbines show energy changing form: the movement (kinetic) energy of wind or water turns the blades, which spin a generator that makes electrical energy. Wind turbines and hydroelectric dams use renewable energy; power stations burn fuel or use nuclear heat to make steam that turns turbines. Jet engines in planes also have turbines. Phrases: wind turbine, wind farm, water turbine, steam turbine, gas turbine.

### examples

- Wind turbines on the hill turn slowly in the breeze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turbine/#x1)
- A wind farm is a group of many turbines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turbine/#x2)
- Water rushing through the dam spins the turbines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turbine/#x3)
- The steam turns a turbine, which drives a generator. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turbine/#x4)
- Turbines make electricity without burning coal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turbine/#x5)
- We built a little paper turbine and held it over a fan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turbine/#x6)
- Jet engines have turbines inside them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turbine/#x7)

### note

Countable: turbines. Pronounced «TUR-bine». Safety: do not climb fences around turbines or power stations. Fact: wind turbines only make electricity when there is enough wind, so they are used together with other energy sources.

### In the corpora

- [A wind turbine turns the energy of moving air into electricity; the wind itself is made by the Sun warming the air unevenly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/11/)
- [Coal, oil and gas power stations burn fuel to heat water into steam, and the steam spins turbines that make electricity.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy/7/)
- [A wind turbine is a giant windmill.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy/2/)
- [Solar panels make electricity from sunlight and wind turbines make it from the wind.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/15/)
- [Solar panels turn sunlight into electricity, and wind turbines turn the moving air into electricity.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/56-energy/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «turbine» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turbine/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.