Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic pinned to a stick so that they revolve when blown on.
- n. A firework that forms a rotating wheel of colored flames. Also called catherine wheel.
- n. A wheel with a circle of pins at right angles to its face, used as a tripping device.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A contrate wheel in which the cogs are pins set into the disk.
- n. In tanning, a stout circular box containing warm water or water and melted tallow, in which hides are rolled about over strong wooden pins fastened to the inner circumference of the box.
- n. A kind of firework, consisting of a long paper case filled with a combustible composition and wound spirally about a disk of pasteboard or wood. When it is supported vertically on a pivot, and ignited, it revolves rapidly, forming a wheel of fire.
- In tanning, to subject to the action of the pinwheel.
Wiktionary
- n. a fake flower with the stump, usually in plastic, for children; the flower spins round in the wind.
- n. a firework which forms a kind of spinning wheel
- n. A cogged (toothed) gear.
- v. To spin.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic that is pinned to a stick and spins when it is pointed into the wind
- n. a wheel that has numerous pins that are set at right angles to its rim
- n. perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels
- n. a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire
Examples
“But Ginny, out of character for her, offered a bribe: A brightly colored pinwheel from a nearby stand.”
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“April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and the pinwheel will be the symbol used to represent the effort to increase awareness, Montgomery County Commissioner Judy Dodge said.”
“I, a rootless cosmopolitan and a linguist to boot which means I have no trustworthy native-speaker intuitions, think I say "pinwheel," but the subject comes up so rarely I can't be sure; at any rate, it sounds more familiar to me.”
“Survivors say the Marines were surrounded in a "pinwheel" ambush as machine-gun fire and grenades rained down and the enemy closed in on the”
“The architects argue that this move is a desire to build the tower as a more contextual building that preserves I.M. Pei's "pinwheel" design, which allows each of the current three buildings to have site lines from and toward the buildings 'façades. N.Y.U.”
“Like a Genki Dama. (laughs) - In the footage that has been released, Juri shows off an impressive "pinwheel" move, what was the idea behind that?”
“It's ground-hugging horizontality reaching for the horizon; the entrance that 'winds in' to the centre of the house; the low sheltering roofs springing from the central vertical core; the 'pinwheel' spaces revolving out around the hearth ... this was a revolutionary new form of space and domestic architecture not seen before, patterns that would be seen in most of his 'Prairie Houses' for the next ten years.”
“He speaks soothingly to me in Italian, smoothes my hair and drops a peppermint pinwheel onto the pages of my open Speller.”
“HAL gets overtaken by the “please hold” Apple pinwheel, HAL engages in a blinking contest with AUTO from WALL*E, HAL gets a makeover from Alicia Silverstone and Stacey Dash …”
“Put that packet of salmon back in the fridge: royal wedding canapés were local and seasonal, without a smoked salmon pinwheel in sight.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pinwheel’.
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Wheel
lantern-wheel, trundle-wheel, trundlehead, worm wheel, cogwheel, match wheel, spur wheel, disk-wheel, star-wheel, canting-wheel, addendum circle, dedendum and 115 more...
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Flora
Flowers and plants have some of the most beautiful names.
These are often the common names, as opposed to the scientific or botanical names.daffodil, gardenia, tulip, snapdragon, violet, orchid, bleeding heart, daisy, lily, lilac, narcissus, rose and 278 more...
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Quilt Designs
log cabin, bear claw, double wedding ring, amish diamond center, flower basket, pinwheel, irish chain, lone star, broken star, drunkard's path, nine patch, flying geese and 84 more...
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C is for Cookie
chocolate chip, sugar, butter, oatmeal, peanut butter, pinwheel, snickerdoodle, shortbread, butterscotch, refrigerator, icebox, Girl Scout and 42 more...
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Round and round she goes
Things to go around and things that go around.
mulberry bush, robin hood's barn, the rosie, the bend, the block a few t..., the corner, merry go round, roulette wheel, gyroscope, in circles, the world, the clock and 29 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Reading Vocab
ulterior, warrant, syllogism, precious, impiety, maroon, aigrette, batiste, topsy-turvy ago, midnight crush, cantankerous, slovenly and 180 more...
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snarkout's Words
agenbite, scandent, vulpine, ratel, corvid, magpie, meline, musteline, ecdysiast, waxwing, abecedarian, guillotine and 111 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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My Little Ponies
A list of My Little Pony names from the original (G1) collection. 1982-1992
cotton candy, butterscotch, blossom, blue belle, minty, snuzzle, seashell, bubbles, bow tie, applejack, sunbeam, medley and 352 more...
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Let's Play
Classic Children's Toys and Games and Amusements
colorforms, jacks, hopscotch, louisville slugger, duncan imperial, flexible flyer, radio flyer, troll doll, dam doll, pick-up sticks, silly putty, marbles and 155 more...
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Exquisite.
Words to my liking. (The most lovelybeautifulintricatecondecendinggratuitous.)
unequivocally, destitute, prudent, sagacious, circumspect, discreet, rash, forethought, evince, judicious, shrewd, extravagant and 227 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (P)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
pagan, page, pageant, pageboy, pagoda, paisley, paladin, palfrey, paling, pampas grass, pan, panoply and 194 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
pellucid, pertain, pampas, prate, pinecone, philistine, pantocrator, papaverine, postmeridian, potlatch, pharology, pinniped and 622 more...
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How to Read a Book
obstreperous, humbug, imposture, pedagogue, obsolete, ruminant, rumination, conjecture, perusing, clairvoyant, clairvoyance, apparatus and 59 more...
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