An artificial flower with a stem, usually plastic, for children: the flower spins round in the wind, like a small paper windmill.
Used in a Sentence
pinwheel
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for pinwheel.
Editorial note
When looking at children playing with paper pinwheel, is your first thought also they must be Nazi?
Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
An artificial flower with a stem, usually plastic, for children: the flower spins round in the wind, like a small paper windmill.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of pinwheel gathered in one view.
A pastry which resembles the artificial flowers above, with some filling or topping in the center.
A firework which forms a kind of spinning wheel.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for pinwheel.
noun
An artificial flower with a stem, usually plastic, for children: the flower spins round in the wind, like a small paper windmill.
noun
A pastry which resembles the artificial flowers above, with some filling or topping in the center.
noun
A firework which forms a kind of spinning wheel.
noun
A cogged (toothed) gear.
Example sentences
When looking at children playing with paper pinwheel, is your first thought also they must be Nazi?
The ghosts should be modern, with tape decks or pinwheel hats and mullets.
Get a pinwheel to run a small motor that winds something up.
I've got a 3 monitor setup and the background animations (rain + pinwheel) only appears on 2 of the monitors...
Except that I can't have more than 10-12 browser windows open before it's pinwheel city...
Also, it looks like the pinwheel demo has an error.
It's the telecom equivalent of the loading pinwheel.
Basically they measured differences in dialects by giving pictures of an item (the example shown is a pinwheel) and asking what Spanish speakers from different places called that thing.
Version 36 is when it became absolutely intolerable, where the pinwheel pauses during navigating to a new page or opening a new tab achieved a duration of 10 - 30 seconds.
I'd start with a dumbbell shape - two pods connected by a slender cylinder just large enough for a man to travel through, and rotating like a pinwheel.
Maybe I'm a bit naive, but I never would have searched for pinweel if I was planning to launch as pinwheel (spelled correctly), and I had the domain name.
Since you just need to bleed off the speed from Earth's orbit, you could angle the sail diagonally so the the reflected light is pushing against your direction of orbit (sort of like how the fins on a pinwheel are angled).
Quote examples
The option called "mountain" should be named "pinwheel".
He would sit in your tray and pop up once in a while and say something like "whoa...get a load of the size of that pixel" and then he would pinwheel his arms with the classic stance and dance his way back to the tray.
Proper noun examples
A search for 'Pinwheel' returns 'Pinweel' - so it appears to cover homophones not just identical spellings.
Fake went on to Hunch and then Pinwheel/Findery.
/music and /programmes are implemented in Pinwheel, a Perl MVC framework strongly inspired by Rails.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use pinwheel in a sentence?
When looking at children playing with paper pinwheel, is your first thought also they must be Nazi?
What does pinwheel mean?
An artificial flower with a stem, usually plastic, for children: the flower spins round in the wind, like a small paper windmill.
What part of speech is pinwheel?
pinwheel is commonly used as noun.