windmills
Wind-powered grain grinders
Windmills are structures that harness wind power through rotating blades or sails.
Traditional windmills ground grain or pumped water; modern wind turbines generate electricity.
To windmill is to rotate the arms in wide circles: She windmilled her arms to keep balance.
To tilt at windmills is to fight imaginary enemies or pursue hopeless causes, from Don Quixote's mistaking windmills for giants.
Sharp flat cutting parts
- towerTall slender edifice
- hubCentral connection point
- rotorSpinning mechanical assembly
- sailsWind-catching boat fabric
cap · fantail · vane · axle · shaft · gears · bearings · millstones
Flour-producing tradespeople
- grainCereal plant's harvest unit
- flourMilled grain powder
- sailsWind-catching boat fabric
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
agriculture · corn · millstones · gristmill · smock · quern · heritage · restoration
Bulb-grown ornamental flowers
- clogsWooden-soled shoes
- NetherlandsNorthwestern European constitutional monarchy
- HollandWestern Dutch region
- polderDiked tract below sea level
Amsterdam · dikes · canals · Delftware · bicycles · Rembrandt · Vermeer · Van Gogh
Inclined from vertical
- La ManchaSpanish historical region
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
- giantsBeings of immense stature
- lanceLong thrusting weapon
Cervantes · chivalry · idealism · futility · quixotic · knight-errant · Rocinante · jousting
blades
Sharp flat cutting parts
sails · cap · fantail · vane · axle · shaft · gears · bearings · millstones · foundation
millers
Flour-producing tradespeople
medieval · agriculture · corn · millstones · gristmill · smock · quern · heritage · restoration · millwright
tulips
Bulb-grown ornamental flowers
- clogsWooden-soled shoes
- NetherlandsNorthwestern European constitutional monarchy
- HollandWestern Dutch region
polder · Amsterdam · dikes · canals · Delftware · bicycles · Rembrandt · Vermeer · Van Gogh · wooden
tilting
Inclined from vertical
- La ManchaSpanish historical region
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
- giantsBeings of immense stature
Cervantes · lance · chivalry · idealism · futility · quixotic · knight-errant · Rocinante · jousting · romanticism
pastoral
Of countryside or clergy care
- countrysideRural area beyond towns
- horizonApparent earth-sky meeting
- panoramaUnobstructed wide-angle view
scenic · vista · rolling · hills · farmland · meadows · picturesque · serene · idyllic · rural
turbine
Blade-driven energy converter
- renewableCapable of restoration
- electricityEnergy from charged particles
- windfarmGrouped turbines generating electricity
power · grid · megawatt · gigawatt · generation · capacity · offshore · onshore · kilowatt · output
- DutchDutch, Holland, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Rotterdam
- NetherlandsAmsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, tulips
- British Countrysidehedgerow, village, hedgerows, hamlet, moorland
- European sceneryAlps, Colosseum, Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, Parthenon
- HeartlandMidwest, Great Plains, cornfields, farms, farmhouses
- Lowland Countrysidefarmhouses, farmsteads, meadows, pastures, dairy farms
windmillscoal plants
Fossil-fueled power stations
solar panels · nuclear reactors · oil rigs · oil refineries · natural gas plants
windmillsnuclear power stations
Fission-based electricity facilities
factories · power plants · digital infrastructure · server farms
- tilting at windmillsAttacking nonexistent threats
- windmill sails
- tilt at windmillsFight nonexistent opponents
- Dutch windmillRotating tower for milling
- windmill dunkCircular-arm basketball slam
- tilted at windmillsFought imaginary foes