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Wheel

wiːl

Wheel definitions
noun
wheel wheels
  1. a circular object that revolves on an axle and is fixed below a vehicle or other object to enable it to move easily over the ground

    "a chair on wheels"

    • a circular object that revolves on an axle and forms part of a machine
    • used in reference to the cycle of a specified condition or set of events

      "the final release from the wheel of life"

    • a large wheel used as an instrument of punishment or torture, especially by binding someone to it and breaking their limbs

      "a man sentenced to be broken on the wheel"

  2. a machine or structure having a wheel as its essential part
    • the steering wheel of a vehicle or vessel

      "his crew know when he wants to take the wheel"

    • a device with a revolving disc or drum used in various games of chance
    • a system, or a part of a system, regarded as a relentlessly moving machine

      "the wheels of justice"

  3. a car

    "she's got wheels now"

  4. a thing resembling a wheel, in particular a cheese made in the form of a shallow disc

    "a small wheel of Brie"

  5. an instance of wheeling; a turn or rotation
  6. a set of short lines, typically five in number and rhyming, concluding the stanza of a poem
verb
wheel wheeled wheeling wheels
  1. push or pull (a vehicle with wheels)

    "Luke was wheeling a barrow"

    • carry in or on a vehicle with wheels

      "a young woman is wheeled into the operating theatre"

  2. (of a bird or aircraft) fly in a wide circle or curve

    "the birds wheeled and dived"

    • turn round quickly so as to face another way

      "Robert wheeled round to see the face of Mr Mafouz"

    • turn or seem to turn on an axis or pivot

      "the stars wheeled through the sky"