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How to pronounce pinwheel in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms aeonium haworthii
Type of subshrub, suffrutex
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Synonyms pinwheel wind collector
Type of toy, plaything
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Synonyms catherine wheel
Type of pyrotechnic, firework
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Type of wheel


he spun the pinwheel and it stopped with the pointer on `Go'.

Examples of pinwheel

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Yet not every galaxy looks like the Milky Way, with its spiraling pinwheel arms.
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This was largely thanks to Wai, a pinwheel of compelling, eccentric movie ideas.
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Each student and faculty member created a pinwheel reflecting their idea of peace.
From the delawareonline.com
As a kid, I grew up eating these pinwheel sandwiches from the local market's deli.
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When the meat is cooked and sliced, the result is a dramatic pinwheel design.
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Anna Sui did her rompers in a delicate silk with Mexican pinwheel embroidery.
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Starting with long side, roll meat into pinwheel, removing paper as you go.
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Pinwheel was heavily bumped at the start and held up for a run at the 200m.
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Thin strips of filet mignon are rolled like a pinwheel and skewered with a wooden stick.
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More examples
  • Perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels
  • A wheel that has numerous pins that are set at right angles to its rim; "he spun the pinwheel and it stopped with the pointer on `Go'"
  • 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
  • Catherine wheel: a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire
  • In cryptography, a pinwheel was a device for producing a short pseudorandom sequence of bits (determined by the machine's initial settings), as a component in a cipher machine. A pinwheel consisted of a rotating wheel with a certain number of positions on its periphery. ...
  • A pinwheel is a simple child's toy made of a wheel of paper or plastic curls attached at its axle to a stick by a pin. It is designed to spin when blown upon by a person or by the wind. It is a predecessor to more complex whirligigs.
  • Nickelodeon (usually abbreviated as Nick, and originally named Pinwheel from December 1, 1977 to March 31, 1979) is an American cable television network owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. ...
  • Pinwheel is a children's television show that aired on the Nickelodeon cable network from 1977 to 1990. The show was the original program featured on the Nickelodeon network (the channel itself was known as "Pinwheel" from 1977 until 1979).
  • A fake flower with the stump, usually in plastic, for children; the flower spins round in the wind; a firework which forms a kind of spinning wheel; A cogged (toothed) gear; To spin