plant vs windmill

plant

noun
  • Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction. 

  • A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set. 

  • The combination of process and actuator. 

  • A young oyster suitable for transplanting. 

  • A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility. 

  • Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall. 

  • An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth. 

  • A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc. 

  • Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi. 

  • Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation). 

  • An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person. 

  • An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism. 

  • An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree. 

verb
  • To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of. 

  • To set up; to install; to instate. 

  • To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit. 

  • To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish. 

  • To engender; to generate; to set the germ of. 

  • To furnish or supply with plants. 

  • To place or set something firmly or with conviction. 

  • To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow. 

  • To place in the ground. 

windmill

noun
  • The structure containing such machinery. 

  • 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 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. 

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

verb
  • To rotate with a sweeping motion. 

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

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