wheel

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

wheels

1.
A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
2.
The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.
3.
(slang)A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
4.
(slang)(poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace-2-3-4-5.
5.
(slang)(poker slang) The best low hand in Lowball or High-low split poker: either ace-2-3-4-5 or 2-3-4-5-7, depending on the variant.
6.
(automotive) A wheelrim.
7.
A round portion of cheese.
8.
A Catherine wheel firework.
9.
(obsolete)A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
10.
A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
11.
(figuratively)(figurative) A recurring or cyclical course of events.
the wheel of life
12.
(figuratively)(figurative) The control of, or ability to steer, the course of events.
13.
(archaic, slang)A dollar.
14.
(UK, archaic, slang)A crown coin.
Đồng nghĩa: cartwheel, tosheroon
15.
(archaic, informal)A bicycle or tricycle.
16.
A maneuver in marching in which the marchers turn in a curving fashion to right or left so that the order of marchers does not change.
17.
(mathematics) A type of algebra where division is always defined, and in particular division by zero is meaningful.
The real numbers can be extended to a wheel, as can any commutative ring.
18.
(prosody) The return to a peculiar rhythm at the end of each stanza.

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verb

V_es/s

wheels

V_ing/Gerund

wheeling

V_ed/pp

wheeled

1.
(transitive)To roll along on wheels.
Wheel that trolley over here, would you?
I had to wheel my bicycle up a steep hill.
2.
(transitive)To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
The patient was wheeled out of the ER.
3.
(dated, intransitive)To ride a bicycle or tricycle.
4.
(intransitive)To make a circular movement.
My arms wheeled frantically in the air as I tried to signal for help.
5.
(intransitive)To move smoothly and easily, as if on wheels.
I wheeled through the gathering, making all my appointed stops.
6.
(intransitive)To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
7.
(transitive)To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
8.
(intransitive)To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
The vulture wheeled above us.
9.
(transitive)To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.
10.
(intransitive)(intransitive, grime music) To reload a track; to play a wheel-up.
The crowd wanted to track to be played again, so they shouted out "Wheel it".

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cartwheeltosheroonbreaking wheelriminstrument of torture breaking wheelwheel rim rim

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From Middle English whel, from Old English hwēol, from *hwehwl, from Proto-Germanic *hwehwlą, *hweulō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷlóm, *kʷékʷlos, *kʷékʷléh₂, reduplication of *kʷel- (to turn) and a suffix (literally "(the thing that) turns and turns"). See also tsjil, wiel, hjul; also kokale, κύκλος, 𐬗𐬀𐬑𐬭𐬀,; and colō, and käl-, πέλω, коло wheel, sjell, 𐬗𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌,.