Pinwheel — * Pinwheel (TV series), a children s show on Nickelodeon that ran from 1979 1989 ** Pinwheel (TV channel), a channel which would later be the Nickelodeon channel * Pinwheel (origami), a piece of folded paper used in the Tamatebako * Pinwheel… … Wikipedia
pinwheel — noun 1. perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels • Syn: ↑Aeonium haworthii • Hypernyms: ↑subshrub, ↑suffrutex • Member Holonyms: ↑Aeonium, ↑genus Aeonium … Useful english dictionary
pinwheel wind collector — noun 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 • Syn: ↑pinwheel • Hypernyms: ↑plaything, ↑toy … Useful english dictionary
pinwheel — I. noun Date: 1869 1. a fireworks device in the form of a revolving wheel of colored fire 2. a toy consisting of lightweight vanes that revolve at the end of a stick 3. something (as a galaxy) shaped like a pinwheel II. intransitive verb Date:… … New Collegiate Dictionary
toy — Synonyms and related words: Charlie McCarthy, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, agate, agent, ancilla, appliance, babe, baby, baby sized, bagatelle, ball, bantam, banty, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, bean, bibelot, bill and … Moby Thesaurus
pinwheel — /pin hweel , weel /, n. 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. 2. Also called catherine wheel. a kind of firework… … Universalium
pinwheel — pin•wheel [[t]ˈpɪnˌ(h)wil, ˌwil[/t]] n. 1) gam a toy consisting of a small wheel with paper or plastic vanes attached by a pin to a stick, designed to revolve when blown 2) a firework that revolves rapidly on a pin when ignited, making a wheel of … From formal English to slang
pinwheel — Synonyms and related words: agate, ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, blocks, checkerboard, chessboard, club, cockhorse, cricket bat, cue, doll, doll carriage, gewgaw, gimcrack, golf club, hobbyhorse, jack in the box, jacks, jackstones … Moby Thesaurus
pinwheel — pin|wheel [ˈpınwi:l] n AmE a toy consisting of a stick with curved pieces of plastic at the end which turn around when they are blown British Equivalent: windmill … Dictionary of contemporary English
pinwheel — pin|wheel [ pın,wil, pın,wil ] noun count AMERICAN a child s toy consisting of a wooden stick with a plastic part in the shape of a flower at one end that spins when you blow it … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
