What's the difference between pinwheel and windmill?

Pinwheel


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pinwheel inclusions (PWs) were found in cells of callus tissue derived from explants of secondary phloem parenchyma of carrot (Daucus carota) storage root and grown on a basal medium containing zeatin and indoleacetic acid or coconut milk, naphthalene acetic acid, or combinations of these.
  • (2) Like the centers of pinwheels, the centers of blobs also lie along the midline of ocular-dominance columns.
  • (3) Lamellar inclusions (bundles, circular inclusions, pinwheels), closely associated with endoplasmic reticulum, occurred frequently in areas of cytoplasm showing no vesiculation.
  • (4) A new weighting factor is introduced into the rf waveform to compensate for nonuniform sampling of k space by the pinwheel near the origin.
  • (5) Optical imaging based on activity-dependent intrinsic signals revealed that the most prominent organizational feature of orientation preference was a radial arrangement, forming a pinwheel-like structure surrounding a singularity point.
  • (6) All isolates studied induced cytoplasmic pinwheel and scroll inclusions.
  • (7) Aggregates were also present, containing two to six rods in a pinwheel-like configuration without measurable overlap between rods.
  • (8) Two other antibodies that react with epitopes near the NH2 terminus and the middle of the molecule bound to sites more centrally located on the pinwheel structure.
  • (9) Deflector lofts consist of a 'pinwheel' arrangement of four stationary deflector panels attached to the sides of a cube-shaped cage.
  • (10) The sensory block was evaluated before surgery and cutaneous anaesthesia was considered to be present when the needles of a Wartenberg Pinwheel were no longer felt in all the dermatomes of the nerves implicated in the surgical site.
  • (11) Negative-staining electron microscopy reveals that the receptor is a large pinwheel-like structure having surface dimensions of approximately 250 X 250 A with fourfold symmetry.
  • (12) The pinwheels and orientation centres are such a prominent organizational feature that it should be important to understand their development as well as their function in the processing of visual information.
  • (13) This conformation has a pinwheel-like orientation of phenyl rings, the direction of which is correlated with a 10 degrees twist about the central double bond and appears to depend upon the orientation of the non-phenyl substituent relative to the double bond.
  • (14) Pinwheel pulses may be used to advantage on moieties with long spin-lattice relaxation times and short transverse relaxation times and are therefore ideal for applications in phosphorus (31P) NMR.
  • (15) These iso-orientation patches are organized around 'orientation centres', producing pinwheel-like patterns in which the orientation preference of cells is changing continuously across the cortex.
  • (16) Empirical energy calculations are insensitive to this intramolecular structural dependence and incorrectly predict that the pinwheel of the opposite direction is of lower energy.
  • (17) The results support the contention that basal bodies in Marsilea arise de novo, since no preexisting template such as a centriolar pinwheel is observed and sine the intermediates which initially occur are structurally dissimilar from a procentriole.
  • (18) The purpose of this paper is to describe our experience using the argon laser for coreoplasty, and to report the unique pinwheel configuration of the iris neovascularization that developed around the laser lesions.
  • (19) The companies involved – which include Twitter, Reddit, Netflix, Vimeo and Mozilla – are just simulating, and will place symbols like the spinning pinwheel or other loading-style animations on their site to make it seem like the internet is slowing down.
  • (20) The locations of the 49-kDa proteinase-mediated cleavage sites flanking the 71-kDa cytoplasmic pinwheel inclusion protein, 6-kDa protein, 49-kDa proteinase, and 58-kDa putative polymerase have been determined by using cell-free expression, proteolytic processing, and site-directed mutagenesis systems.

Windmill


Definition:

  • (n.) A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "It is rare to have such a prominent signature in a work of this date and it is one of only two of his series of paintings depicting windmills of Montmartre still in private hands."
  • (2) They not only started the season with journeyman windmill dunk specialist Gerald Green on their roster – he was one of Phoenix's starters.
  • (3) The Dutch are famous for their windmills, which have formed the basis for the design of the modern wind turbines that we see today.
  • (4) A few years later, Vince built a windmill out of scrap to power the old ambulance in which he still lived.
  • (5) Clegg said: "I think we have to deal with the emergency on our doorstep, rather than tilting at windmills."
  • (6) No wonder he was so keen on such dodgy projects as the euro, windmills and that AV referendum nonsense, they have been telling each other for ages.
  • (7) Wilhelmina were prominent for a time in Melbourne, Perth had (Morley) Windmills, and there was even the Hobart-based Hollandia.
  • (8) The hard graft for centre-left parties across Europe is to turn this around – not to be a 21st-century Don Quixote forever tilting at 19th- or 20th-century windmills.
  • (9) Vince’s first experiments in wind power began at Glastonbury festival where he fixed a windmill to a pylon and charged mobile phone batteries.
  • (10) This result is produced only when the risk per unit energy is considered, rather than the risk per solar panel or windmill.
  • (11) Why would you want to sail in a forest of windmills?"
  • (12) Turbines harness this energy by working like an old-fashioned windmill with rotor blades that face into the wind.
  • (13) However many bad calls he’s made, or windmills he’s tilted at , his office means that people tend to give weight to what he says.
  • (14) Hegarty also clashed with Morris, who spoke in favour of uranium and other resource mining, saying: “Not everyone wants a bloody big windmill in their backyard.
  • (15) Proud to be a "provincial" writer, in his novel Kept (2006) Taylor begins with a bravura passage describing his home county: "A land of winding backroads and creaking carts and windmills, a land of flood, and eels and elvers and all that comes from water, a land of silence and subterfuge, of things not said but only whispered, where much is kept secret which would be better laid open to scrutiny."
  • (16) Yet a vaguely green aura still hung around him to the end, with his fuzzy green oak tree logo and that windmill he tried to fix on his roof.
  • (17) Astypalea The Pylaia, Astypalea Where to stay Pylaia The charming village of Hora, with its whitewash buildings and windmills, is a slice of the nearby Cycladic islands.
  • (18) We shall see, with a windmill-hating environment secretary.
  • (19) Richard went for a windmill tableau and Nancy for a moulin rouge with sugar sails, while Luis created a village scene that included a biscuit mining-wheel with choux-pastry rope.
  • (20) The Windmill Restaurant at 46 High Street, Burgh-Le-Marsh (01754 810281, windmillrestaurant.co.uk ) has main courses from £10.

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