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A windmill is a machine which converts the energy of wind into rotational energy by means of vanes called sails or blades. Originally windmills were developed for milling grain for food production. In the course of history the windmill was adapted to many other industrial uses. An important...

is an engine powered by the wind to produce energy.

Windmill may also refer to:

Art and Culture

  • Windmill (breakdance move), one of the most well-known power moves in breakdancing
  • Windmill (band)
    Windmill (band)
    Windmill is an indie pop band led by London-based musician Matthew Thomas Dillon.Windmill have released 2 full length albums: 2007's Puddle City Racing Lights, and its follow up, Epcot Starfields in 2009...

    , an indie band from the UK
  • Windmills (Rick Roberts album)
  • Windmills (Faith Assembly album)
    Windmills (Faith Assembly album)
    Windmills is a collection of exclusive songs and favorite remixes from the first ten years of Faith Assembly's underground music career. Some of the tracks are pulled from the band's popular singles, and others were created just for this collection....

  • Windmill
    Windmill (TV series)
    Windmill was a British television series, usually shown on Sunday lunchtimes on BBC2, which ran from 26 August 1985 to 3 April 1988, presented by Chris Serle, its name taken from the BBC television archives being housed at Windmill Road in West London at the time...

    , a 1980s BBC television series
  • Windmill, a guitar move credited to Pete Townshend of The Who
  • "Windmill" (song)
    Windmill (song)
    "Windmill" is a song by the German power metal band Helloween taken from the album Chameleon. It was released in some countries as Windmill...

    , a 1993 song on Helloween's Chameleon album
  • "Windmills", a song by Blackmore’s Night from their 2006 album The Village Lanterne
    The Village Lanterne
    The Village Lanterne is a fifth studio album by the renaissance rock band Blackmore's Night, released on Steamhammer US on 4 April 2006. It featured the single "Just Call My Name ".In 2006 the album went Gold in Russia...

  • "The Windmill", a march chant sung by English members of the French Foreign Legion
    French Foreign Legion
    The French Foreign Legion is a unique military service wing of the French Army established in 1831. The foreign legion was exclusively created for foreign nationals willing to serve in the French Armed Forces...

  • The Windmill (film)
    The Windmill (film)
    The Windmill is a 1937 British drama film directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Hugh Williams, Glen Alyn and Henry Mollison. During the First World War, the German adopted daughter of a Belgian innkeeper tries to balance her loyalty to her father, who is a spy for the Germans, and her love for a...

    , a 1937 British film
  • Wind milling is a special style of headbanging, popularized by Cannibal Corpse singer Corpsegrinder

Organizations

  • Windmill (company)
    Windmill (company)
    is a Japanese adult visual novel video game developer.-Windmill:* Yuibashi* Yuibashi Tsumechaimashita! P·R·O* Cradle Song -Kinou ni Kanaderu Asu no Uta-* Mahou to H no Kankei....

    , a Japanese visual novel video game developer
  • Windmill Theatre Company
    Windmill Theatre Company
    Windmill Theatre Company Inc is a non-professional theatre company located in the outer-Eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria. Specifically, their activities occur, and the bulk of their members reside, in the municipalities of Casey, Cardinia and Dandenong...

    , a non-professional musical theatre group in Victoria, Australia
  • Windmill software
    Windmill software
    Windmill Software is a Canadian software company. Windmill Software today publishes property management software and management information system software, but the company is more notable for its past role as a developer, marketer, publisher, and distributor of computer and video games...

    , Canadian software company

Sports and Games

  • Windmill (chess)
    Windmill (chess)
    In chess, a windmill is a tactic in which a combination of discovered checks and regular checks, usually by a rook and a bishop, can win massive amounts of material. This tactic is also sometimes referred to as a see-saw...

    , a combination of moves where a series of discovered checks result in winning of material
  • Windmill (solitaire)
    Windmill (solitaire)
    Windmill is a solitaire card game played with two decks of playing cards. It is so called because the initial layout resembles a windmill's sails....

    , a solitaire card game played with two decks of cards
  • Windmill (sailing dinghy)
    Windmill (sailing dinghy)
    The Windmill is a two person one-design sailing dinghy designed by Clark Mills in 1953. It was designed to be inexpensive and buildable by amateur woodworkers, such as father-and-son team...

    , class of racing sailboat

Places

  • Windmill, Derbyshire
  • Windmill Islands
    Windmill Islands
    The Windmill Islands are an Antarctic group of rocky islands and rocks about wide, paralleling the coast of Wilkes Land for immediately north of Vanderford Glacier along the east side of Vincennes Bay...

    , an Antarctic group of rocky islands and rocks
  • Windmill, a village near Pentre Halkyn
    Pentre Halkyn
    Pentre Halkyn is a small village in Flintshire, North Wales. It is situated approximately three miles from Holywell, and is off Junction 32 of the A55 North Wales Expressway. It has a quarry, a small hotel, a local shop and not much else...

    , Wales
  • The Windmill Theatre
    Windmill Theatre
    The Windmill Theatre, later The Windmill International, was a variety and revue theatre in Great Windmill Street, London. The theatre was famous for its nude tableaux vivants...

     in London
  • The Old Windmill, Brisbane, the oldest surviving building in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
  • The Windmill, Brixton
    The Windmill, Brixton
    The Windmill is a pub and live music venue in Brixton, London, with a reputation for championing new music.The pub was built in 1971 for the adjacent Blenheim Gardens housing estate. It went through various phases of being a bar that attracted locals, bikers, the Irish community and by the end of...

    , Brixton, England
  • The Windmill (hot dog stand)
    The Windmill (hot dog stand)
    The Windmill is a chain of restaurants located mostly near the Jersey Shore known for its hot dogs and other fast food. The original location, a windmill shaped building in Long Branch, New Jersey, was built and opened in 1964. Leo and Ed Levine bought the restaurant in 1976, and opened a second...

    , a hotdog restaurant in Long Branch, New Jersey and the Jersey Shore

Other uses

  • Windmill restart, a maneuver that uses kinetic energy to restart a jet engine
  • Plants in the genus Allionia
    Allionia
    Allionia, commonly known as windmills or trailing four o'clock, is a genus of two species widespread in the western hemisphere...

  • Windmill (testing framework)
    Windmill (testing framework)
    Windmill is a cross-platform, cross-browser software testing framework, primarily used for testing Web applications.Most users write tests in Python or in JavaScript, but there is also a library that provides Ruby support...

    , an open-source framework for testing software, mainly Web applications
  • Operation Windmill
    Operation Windmill
    Operation Windmill was the United States Navy's Second Antarctica Developments Project, an exploration and training mission to Antarctica in 1947–1948. This operation was a follow up to the First Antarctica Development Project known as Operation Highjump. The expedition was commanded by Commander...

    , a U.S. Navy exploration and training mission to Antarctica in 1947–48
  • Windmill (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
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