wheel

Meanings

Noun

• A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
• The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.
• A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
• The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5.
• A wheelrim.
• A round portion of cheese.
• 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.
• 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.

Related

Similar words

• breaking wheel
• rim

Narrower meaning words

• back wheel
• balance wheel
• big wheel
• breaking wheel
• buffing wheel
• cartwheel
• Catherine wheel
• click wheel
• cog wheel
• cogwheel
• color wheel
• colour wheel
• daisy wheel
• disk wheel
• driving wheel
• escape wheel
• Ferris wheel
• fifth wheel
• foundling wheel
• front wheel
• gear wheel
• gearwheel
• Geneva wheel
• idle wheel
• kick wheel
• lantern wheel
• leading wheel
• mag wheel
• mill wheel
• motorcycle wheel
• paddle wheel
• Persian wheel
• planet wheel
• potter's wheel
• prayer wheel
• print wheel
• ratchet wheel
• reaction wheel
• rear wheel
• roulette wheel
• scoop wheel
• scoopwheel
• skateboard wheel
• spinning wheel
• sprocket wheel
• steel wheel
• steering wheel
• the wheel
• tide wheel
• trailing wheel
• training wheels
• wagon wheel
• water wheel
• worm wheel

Origin

• From Middle English whele, from Old English hwēol, from Proto-Germanic *hwehwlą, *hweulō (compare West Frisian tsjil, Dutch wiel, Danish hjul), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷlóm, *kʷékʷlos, *kʷékʷléh₂ (compare Tocharian B kokale ("cart, wagon"), Ancient Greek κύκλος ("cycle, wheel"), Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬑𐬭𐬀, Sanskrit चक्र), reduplication of *kʷel- and a suffix (literally "(the thing that) turns and turns"; compare Latin colō ("to till, cultivate"), Tocharian A and Tocharian B käl-, Ancient Greek πέλω ("to come into existence, become"), Old Church Slavonic коло ("wheel"), Albanian sjell ("to bring, carry, turn around"), Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌, Sanskrit चरति ("it moves, wanders")). charkha, Ku Klux Klan, cycle, and chakra.