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Meaning
Noun
●
In Simple machines:
A
circular
device
capable
of
rotating
on its
axis
,
facilitating
movement
or
transportation
or
performing
labour
in machines.
A
steering wheel
and its
implied
control of a vehicle.
A
spinning
wheel.
A potter's wheel.
●
In Nautical, Ship parts & Simple machines:
A
circular
device
capable
of
rotating
on its
axis
,
facilitating
movement
or
transportation
or
performing
labour
in machines.
The
instrument
attached
to the
rudder
by which a
vessel
is steered.
●
In Torture:
The
breaking wheel
, an
old
instrument
of torture.
●
A person with a
great deal
of power or influence; a
big
wheel.
●
In Computing:
A person with a
great deal
of power or influence; a
big
wheel.
A
superuser
on certain systems.
●
In Poker:
The
lowest
straight
in
poker:
ace,
2,
3,
4,
5.
●
In Automotive:
A wheelrim.
●
A round
portion
of cheese.
●
In Pyrotechnics & Torture:
A Catherine
wheel
firework.
●
A
rolling
or
revolving
body; anything of a
circular
form; a
disk
; an orb.
●
A
turn
or
revolution
;
rotation
; compass.
●
A
recurring
or
cyclical
course
of events.
●
A dollar.
●
In British English:
A
crown
coin
; a "cartwheel".
●
A
bicycle
or tricycle.
●
A
manoeuvre
in
marching
in which the
marchers
turn in
a
curving
fashion
to right or
left
so that the order of
marchers
does not change.
Verb
●
To
roll
along on wheels.
●
To
transport
something or someone using any
wheeled
mechanism
, such as a wheelchair.
●
To
ride
a
bicycle
or tricycle.
●
To change
direction
quickly
,
turn
,
pivot
,
whirl
,
wheel
around.
●
To cause to change
direction
quickly
, turn.
●
To
travel
around in large
circles
,
particularly
in the air.
●
To
put
into a
rotatory
motion
; to cause to
turn
or
revolve
; to make or
perform
in a circle.
●
To
reload
a
track
; to
play
a wheel-up.
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Origin
wheel
English
whele
Middle English (1100-1500)
hweogol
Old English (ca. 450-1100)
Sourced from
Etym
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Rhymes
Eel
Neal
Niel
Peal
Deal
Keel
Feel
Seal
Weal
Tiel
Veal
Meal
Neil
Ceil
Teal
Peel
Heel
Reel
Heal
Sele
Feal
Zeal
Tuile
Steal
Tweel
Steel
Steel
Sweal
Niall
-Meal
Kneel
Peele
Wheel
Wheal
Beale
Neale
Creel
Lille
Spiel
She'Ll
Repeal
Allele
Squeal
Appeal
Ordeal
Awheel
Anneal
Tuille
Reveal
Conceal
O'Neill
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Cockatiel
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