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# windmill

«windmill» in Mova's school dictionary: **a building with large sails that the wind turns to grind…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a windmill, windmills); verb (windmill, windmills, windmilled — rare, to swing arms round)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A windmill is a building with large sails that the wind turns to grind grain or pump water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windmill/#m1)

2) A windmill is also a modern tall tower with blades that makes electricity (more exactly a wind turbine). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windmill/#m2)

3) A windmill is a toy on a stick with paper or plastic blades that spin in the wind (UK: a pinwheel or windmill). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windmill/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in science and energy lessons (renewable energy, wind power), history (flour mills, the Netherlands), and stories («Don Quixote tilting at windmills»).

### examples

- The old windmill ground wheat into flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windmill/#x1)
- The Netherlands is famous for its windmills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windmill/#x2)
- Windmills on the farm pump water for the cattle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windmill/#x3)
- The hills are covered with modern windmills making electricity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windmill/#x4)
- We made a paper windmill in science. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windmill/#x5)
- The sails of the windmill turned slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windmill/#x6)
- Wind power is a clean source of energy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windmill/#x7)
- A windmill stood upon the hill, proud to look at, and it was proud too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windmill/#x8)

### note

Compound: wind + mill. Strictly, machines that make electricity are «wind turbines», but people often call them windmills. In America a toy windmill is a «pinwheel».

### In the corpora

- [Windmills and watermills once ground grain between big stones; today most flour is made in huge roller mills.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/8/)
- [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/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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