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windmill

noun as in fan

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Especially a romantic one, who isn’t unhinged or tilting at windmills.

Colleagues have cautioned him against chasing windmills in a quest that McConnell himself describes as “a little bit quixotic.”

There’s even up, in Yorkshire, a working windmill that actually produces flour.

Adding to the citizens’ misery are rolling electrical blackouts, possibly related to the fact that the state legislature has banned all sources of electricity except windmills and 9-volt batteries.

Tim Hwang recognizes he is tilting at windmills here, trillion-dollar windmills.

Up next: a windmill prototype, which is a few months from being finished.

But the American Dream is such a pretty windmill to chase that it's not a problem to get new arrivals to join in the pursuit.

They are, across the board, quixotic characters hacking at the windmill of language.

We are of as much consequence to an army, as wind to a windmill: the wings can't be put in motion without us.

And on a slight rise, but so concealed from him by the willows that only the great wings showed, stood the windmill.

The mills were presumably driven for the most part by water, though we have a reference to a windmill as early as the year 833.

The windmill shown in the sketch is one that will always face the wind, and it never requires adjustment.

With your colors to wear, I shall have the honor of breaking a lance against the biggest windmill in the world.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to windmill, such as: air conditioner, blower, flabellum, palm leaf, thermantidote, and ventilator.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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