blade vs windmill

blade

noun
  • A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude. 

  • The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina. 

  • A homosexual, usually male. 

  • An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down interrogation mark. 

  • The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal. 

  • One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera. 

  • The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell. 

  • The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants. 

  • A piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone. 

  • A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck). 

  • The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel. 

  • A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle. 

  • The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts. 

  • The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc. 

  • Thin plate, foil. 

  • The principal rafters of a roof. 

  • A blade server. 

  • An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.) 

  • A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade. 

  • Synonym of knifeblade 

  • The part of a key that is inserted into the lock. 

  • A sword or knife. 

verb
  • To stab with a blade 

  • To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding. 

  • To furnish with a blade. 

  • To put forth or have a blade. 

  • To skate on rollerblades. 

windmill

noun
  • A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop. 

  • A pitch where the pitcher swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball. 

  • A child's toy consisting of vanes mounted on a stick that rotate when blown by a person or by the wind. 

  • Any of various muscle exercises in which a large deal of the body makes a great circle, typically one where a kettlebell is raised overhead and the torso is rotated to the other side with the hand reaching its foot (hitting the core, glutes, hamstrings, trapezius, rhomboids, deltoids and rotator cuffs) but sometimes even a windshield wiper. 

  • Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Byasa, the wings of which resemble the vanes of a windmill. 

  • An imaginary enemy, but presented as real. 

  • A guitar move where the strumming hand mimics a turning windmill. 

  • A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails. 

  • The structure containing such machinery. 

  • The false shower. 

  • A breakdancing move in which the dancer rolls his/her torso continuously in a circular path on the floor, across the upper chest, shoulders and back, while twirling the legs in a V shape in the air. 

verb
  • To rotate with a sweeping motion. 

  • Of a rotating part of a machine, to (become disengaged and) rotate freely. 

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