FIGHT WINDMILLS

Meaning of FIGHT WINDMILLS in English

fight imaginary enemies

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FIGHT WINDMILLS — донкихотствовать, сражаться с ветряными мельницами
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FIGHT WINDMILLS — донкихотствовать, сражаться с ветряными мельницами
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FIGHT
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FIGHT — — fightable , adj. — fightability , n. — fightingly , adv. /fuyt/ , n. , v. , fought, fighting …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FIGHT — I. ˈfīt verb ( fought ˈfȯt ; fight·ing ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English feohtan; akin to Old High …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FIGHT
Webster English vocab
FIGHT — [fight] vb fought ; fight.ing [ME, fr. OE feohtan; akin to OHG fehtan to fight and perh. to L pectere …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
FIGHT — / faɪt; NAmE / verb , noun ■ verb ( fought , fought / fɔːt; NAmE /) IN WAR / …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FIGHT
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FIGHT
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FIGHT
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FIGHT
Oxford English vocab
FIGHT — ( fights, fighting, fought) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. If you …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FIGHT — (~s, ~ing, fought) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. If you ~ …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
FIGHT
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FIGHT — [noun] [C]The older boys broke up (= stopped)/started the fight.Have you got tickets for the big fight (= boxing competition)?I …
Cambridge English vocab
FIGHT — Synonyms and related words : Olympic games, Olympics, a outrance, action, aerial combat, affray, against, aggression, aggressiveness, agonize, altercate, altercation, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
FIGHT
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
FIGHT
Longman Activator English vocab
FIGHT — See ↑ ARGUE 1, ↑ COMPETE WITH 2, ↑ FIGHT 1,4,6,6,7,9, ↑ VOTE 7, ↑ WAR 2 ◆◆◆ • ↑ …
Longman Activator English vocab
FIGHT
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
FIGHT — v. 1 contend (with), battle, conflict (with), encounter, war (against), engage, clash, take up arms (against), feud (with), combat, bear …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
FIGHT — verb BAD : They spent the whole night fighting against the fire. GOOD : They spent the whole night fighting …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
WINDMILLS — Ветряные
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WINDMILLS — Ветряки
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WINDMILLS — Ветряные
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TILT AT WINDMILLS — phrasal Etymology: so called fr. the episode in Don Quijote de la Mancha in which Don Quixote battles with a …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TILT AT WINDMILLS — attack imaginary enemies. [with allusion to the story of Don Quixote tilting at windmills, believing they were giants.] → tilt
Concise Oxford English vocab
TILT AT WINDMILLS — to waste your energy attacking imaginary enemies ORIGIN: From Cervantes' novel Don Quixote , in which the hero thought that …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TILT AT WINDMILLS — {v. phr.}, {literary} To do battle with an imaginary foe (after Cervantes' Don Quixote). * /John is a nice guy …
Slang English vocab
TILT AT WINDMILLS — {v. phr.}, {literary} To do battle with an imaginary foe (after Cervantes' Don Quixote). * /John is a nice guy …
Словарь английских идиом
TILT AT WINDMILLS — v. phr. , literary To do battle with an imaginary foe (after Cervantes' Don Quixote). John is a nice guy …
American Idioms English vocabulary
TILT AT WINDMILLS — воевать с ветряными мельницами You are tilting at windmills, we are all for you.
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь сленга, жаргона, русских имен
WINDMILL — I. ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: Middle English windmulle, from wind (I) + mille, mulle mill 1. a. : a mill operated …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TILT — tilt 1 — tiltable , adj. — tilter , n. /tilt/ , v.t. 1. to cause to lean, incline, slope, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
WINDMILL — I. ˈwin(d)-ˌmil noun Date: 14th century 1. a. : a mill or machine operated by the wind usually acting on …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TILT — ■ verb 1》 move into a sloping position. ↘move (a camera) in a vertical plane. 2》 ( ~ at ) …
Concise Oxford English vocab
WINDMILL — [wind.mill] n (14c) 1 a: a mill or machine operated by the wind usu. acting on oblique vanes or sails …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
WINDMILL — device for tapping the energy of the wind by means of sails mounted on a rotating shaft. The sails are …
Britannica English vocabulary
TURBINE — any of various devices that convert the energy in a stream of fluid into mechanical energy. The conversion is generally …
Britannica English vocabulary
NETHERLANDS, THE
Britannica English vocabulary
FENS — also called Fenland, natural region of about 15,500 sq mi (40,100 sq km) of reclaimed marshland in eastern England, extending …
Britannica English vocabulary
WINDMILL — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB tilt ▪ But Woodhead's art was to tilt at windmills . ▪ Commitment and …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
TILT — I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES ran full tilt ▪ She ran full tilt into his arms. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SUPPLY — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a firm supplies sth ▪ The firm supplies office furniture to local businesses. a …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
AT
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
WINDMILL — n. Machine for harnessing the energy of the wind using sails mounted on a rotating shaft. The sails are mounted …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
PERCENTAGE — noun BAD : Only a small percentage of the windmills still works. GOOD : Only a small percentage of the …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
WINDMILL — сущ. 1) ветряная мельница to fight (или to tilt at) windmills ≈ сражаться с ветряными мельницами, донкихотствовать 2) ветряк, ветродвигатель …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
МЕЛЬНИЦА — mill ручная мельница — hand-mill, quern ветряная мельница — windmill водяная мельница — water-mill паровая мельница — steam-mill кофейная мельница …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
WINDMILL — windmill.ogg ʹwınd͵mıl n 1. ветряная мельница windmill padding - спорт. гребля «мельницей» 2. ветродвигатель, ветряк 3. ав. жарг. вертолёт 4. …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
WINDMILL — n 1. ветряная мельница windmill padding - спорт. гребля «мельницей» 2. ветродвигатель, ветряк 3. ав. жарг. вертолёт 4. ком. жарг. …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
МЕЛЬНИЦА — ж. mill ручная мельница — hand-mill, quern ветряная мельница — windmill водяная мельница — water-mill паровая мельница — steam-mill кофейная …
Русско-Английский словарь
МЕЛЬНИЦА — ж. mill ручная мельница — hand-mill, quern ветряная мельница — windmill водяная мельница — water-mill паровая мельница — steam-mill кофейная …
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