You win something when you are better or faster at it than everyone else. You win a race when you cross the finish line first. You win an art competition when your picture is better than everyone else's. Your team wins a game like soccer if they score the most goals. And you win an eating competition if you eat more than everyone else.
The opposite of win is lose.
You wince when you are struck with a sudden pain. When you wince, you jerk away from the pain, or pull a pained facial expression.
Wind is just the large scale movement of air. Wind happens because some parts of the world get heated up more than others by the sun, and it makes the air there get bigger, so the air has to try and move somewhere it has more room. Where it is cold, the air gets smaller, so wind is always moving between places that are different temperatures.
When it is very windy it is called a storm. Wind can be very dangerous, but it can also be turned into electricity using wind turbines or used for other purposes using windmills.
There are lots of words that mean different kinds of wind, like breeze for a gentle wind, gust for a sudden burst of wind, or gale for a very strong wind.
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A windmill is a machine that is used to convert the energy from the wind blowing past into more useful energy. Windmills have several blades or sails that catch the wind as it goes past, and the sails turn around. Inside the windmill is other machinery that does useful work as the wind turns the sails outside.
Windmills were used to mill grain into flour, hence their name. Windmills can also be used to pump water out of wells.
More recently wind has been used to generate electricity. The version of the windmill that is used for this is called a wind turbine.
