This is the 4143rd most frequent Dutch word.
aspas
Quotation marks.
The word 'aspas' is used here to mean 'blades' or 'vanes', referring to the rotating elements of the windmill that catch the wind.
De aspas van de windmolen draaien snel door de harde wind.
The blades of the windmill spin rapidly due to the strong wind.
In this example, 'aspas' refers to 'quotation marks', used in writing to denote speech or quotes.
Hij plaatste de tekst tussen aspas om aan te geven dat het een citaat was.
He enclosed the text in quotation marks to indicate that it was a quote.
Here, 'aspas' symbolizes the bars or notation used in mathematics to represent the absolute value of a number.