pinwheel
/pin-hweel, -weel/US // ˈpɪnˌʰwil, -ˌwil //UK // (ˈpɪnˌwiːl) //
风车,风火轮,风轮
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a child's toy consisting of a wheel or leaflike curls of paper or plastic loosely attached by a pin to a stick, designed to revolve when blown by or as by the wind.
- : Also called catherine wheel. a kind of firework supported on a pin which, when ignited, revolves rapidly and gives a dazzling display of light.
- : a wheel having pins at right angles to its rim for engaging the teeth of a gear.
v.无主动词 verb
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- : to revolve rapidly like a pinwheel: Images of the past pinwheeled through his mind.
Examples
Rhubarb Roulade This powdered sugar-dusted pink-and-white pinwheel is a classically beautiful Gourmet dessert.
Why, he began turning somersaults so fast that he looked just like a pinwheel going around, or an automobile tire whizzing along.
Persis went through the air like a pinwheel, and those who witnessed the affair gave up her and the horse for dead.
A pinwheel had exploded, sending a shower of sparks in every direction.
Just as they entered a pinwheel, lying flat, began to fizz, sending a shower of sparks across the other pieces.
If this is a gesture, all I can say is, it is a pinwheel; and yet Broun writes only about things he knows about.
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