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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

wheel en · NOUN

Pronunciation

(General-American) audio
[ˈʍɪi̯l] ~ /ˈw̥iːl/ without the wine–whine merger
/ˈʍiːl/ without the wine–whine merger
[ˈwɪi̯l] wine–whine merger
/ˈwiːl/ wine–whine merger
[ˈw̥ɪi̯l] without the wine–whine merger

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂ Proto-Germanic *hweulō Old English hwēol Middle English whel English wheel From Middle English whel, from Old English hwēol, from Proto-West Germanic *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 West Frisian tsjil, Dutch wiel, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hjul; also Tocharian B kokale (“cart, wagon”), Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “cycle, wheel”), Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬑𐬭𐬀 (caxra), Sanskrit चक्र (cakrá); and Latin colō (“to till, cultivate”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B käl- (“to bear; bring”), Ancient Greek πέλω (pélō, “to come into existence, become”), Old Church Slavonic коло (kolo, “wheel”), Albanian sjell (“to bring, carry, turn around”), Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (caraⁱti, “it circulates”), Sanskrit चरति (cárati, “it moves, wanders”). Doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, chukker, cycle, cyclus, and kike.

Meanings

A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
- The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity. 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
(informal, with-definite-article) 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.
- He fell asleep at the wheel.
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.
- I hear the noise about thy keel; ⁠I hear the bell struck in the night: ⁠I see the cabin-window bright; I see the sailor at the wheel. 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto X”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines. ▸ A spinning wheel.
A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines. ▸ A potter's wheel.
- Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 18:3:
- Turn, turn, my wheel! This earthen jar / A touch can make, a touch can mar. 1878, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kéramos:
The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.
(slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
(dated, slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel. ▸ A superuser on certain systems.
(slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace-2-3-4-5.
(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.
A wheelrim.
A round portion of cheese.
A Catherine wheel firework.
(obsolete) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
- Flashing thick flames , wheel within wheel undrawn 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
- [He] throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel. 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
(figuratively) A recurring or cyclical course of events.
- the wheel of life
- According to the common vicissitude and wheel of things, the proud and the insolent, after long trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled upon themselves. 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
(figuratively) The control of, or ability to steer, the course of events.
- This is the story of how AI changed our world in 2025, in new and exciting and sometimes frightening ways. It is the story of how Huang and other tech titans grabbed the wheel of history, developing technology and making decisions that are reshaping the information landscape, the climate, and our livelihoods. 2025 December 11, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow and Billy Perrigo, “The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year”, in Time:
(archaic, slang) A dollar.
(UK, archaic, slang) A crown coin.
(archaic, informal) A bicycle or tricycle.
- There was no vehicle of any sort, on land or water, in those days, that could go as fast as a bicycle, except a railroad train. […] Hammondsport and Glenn Curtiss had never even heard of the not yet quite born automobile. But Glenn Curtiss could push his "wheel," with those long legs of his, uphill, downhill or on the level, faster than any other boy in Hammondsport. 1927 March, Popular Science, page 22:
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.
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.
The return to a peculiar rhythm at the end of each stanza.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
wheels	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Synonyms

rim (wheel rim) · breaking wheel (instrument of torture) · cartwheel · tosheroon

Translations (367)

vot veero (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ml ചക്രം (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · txb yerkwanto (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sms kååˊlez (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · pt timão (steering device in a vessel) · tr teker (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · koi гӧгыль (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · si රෝදය (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ko 타륜 (steering device in a vessel) · ms liring (Kedah) (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sc orroda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · fi kiho (person with a great deal of power or influence) · gd roth (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · pl koło sterowe (steering device in a vessel) · ko 바퀴 (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · it ruota (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · mhr орава (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · fi ruoriratti (steering device in a vessel) · hi पहिया (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · pms roa (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · vo luib (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · or ଚକ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ar رويضة (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · mfe larou (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ilo pilid (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · lo ກົງ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · zh 輪 /轮 (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ka ბორბალი (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ja 車輪 (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · fi vanne (wheel rim) · kgp jyryryn (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · chr ᎦᏆᏙᏗ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ce чIуг (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · yi ראָד (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · non hvēl (person with a great deal of power or influence) · fr barre (steering device in a vessel) · izh veeru (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · mr चाक (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · non hvēl (wheel rim) · osx hwiol (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sv ratt (steering device in a vessel) · sat ᱪᱚᱠ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · el προσωπικότητα (person with a great deal of power or influence) · be ко́ла (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · kn ಚಕ್ರ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sk koleso (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · lmo röda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · pdc Raad (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · za loek (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · gv queeyl (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · hu kerék (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ja 車 (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · rm rouda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · lv ritenis (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · th ล้อ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sq rrotë (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · apw bigan (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sh ко̀та̄ч (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · hif pahiya (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · pi cakka (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · vi bánh lái (steering device in a vessel) · lmo rœuda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · fi ratti (steering device in a vessel) · ab агьежь (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · nrf reue (wheel rim) · fi pyörä (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · it ruota del timone (steering device in a vessel) · sm uili (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ha k'afa (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · tk tigir (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ko 휠 (lowest straight in poker) · ur چَکْر (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · uk штурва́л (steering device in a vessel) · yo kẹkẹ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · mt rota (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · frp roua (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ti መንኰርኰር (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ky дөңгөлөк (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · pri péaa (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ty porotaʻa (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sc rota (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · scn rota (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · bn চাকা (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sh tòčak (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · yue 轆 /辘 (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ne चक्का (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · alt тегелик (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · it cerchione (wheel rim) · lmo reuda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ota تكرلك (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sgs tekėnis (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · it pezzo grosso (person with a great deal of power or influence) · uga 𐎀𐎔𐎐 (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ln eyika (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · te చక్రం (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · cu ⰍⰑⰎⰑ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · war lidong (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ps څرخ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · et tüür (steering device in a vessel) · lld roda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · pl koło (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · lij reua (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · rw urubangangwe (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sh kòtāč (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ru колесо́ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · apw bikeeʼ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sh timun (steering device in a vessel) · ht rou (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · zh 輪 /轮 (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · niv кулкулс (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · bni eyika (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · vro püür (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ofs hwēl (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ik aksraligaun (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · jv rodha (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · pi चक्क (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · xal төгә (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ca peix gros (person with a great deal of power or influence) · uk ко́ло (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · nl wiel (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · roa-leo rueda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ur پَہِیَّا (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · dta kurde (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · zza çerx (diq) (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · oc arròda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ta சக்கரம் (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · vot rataz (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · mww log (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · mba ligid (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · pa ਚੱਕਾ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ca roda de timó (steering device in a vessel) · br rod (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · cdo 輪輪 /轮轮 (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ia rota (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · war kaliding (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · cs kolo (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · km កង់ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · dsb koło (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · xto wärkänt (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · rup ghirgal (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · osp rueda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · mi wīra (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · dsb kólaso (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · la rota (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · tyv дугуй (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · zh 轔 /辚 (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sv hjul (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · to veʻeteka (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · mww log (steering device in a vessel) · de Rad (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · tr tekerlek (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ja 輪 (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ist rùda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · nl rad (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · grc τροχός (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · he גַּלְגַּל (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · rw ikiziga (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · tts อริน (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ks ژَکھٕر (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · de Steuerrad (steering device in a vessel) · haw pokakaʻa (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · dv ފުރޮޅު (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · it cerchio (wheel rim) · gl roda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ee ɣufɔtsi (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · pt roda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ny gudumu (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ja 舵輪 (steering device in a vessel) · pap wiel (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ro roată (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · cy olwyn (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · es rueda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · lo ກົງລໍ້ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · izh ratas (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · pam parugang (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · lo ລໍ້ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · eo rado (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ur پَہِیَّہ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · tr dümen (steering device in a vessel) · mwl ruoda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ce чIуьрг (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · rsk колєсо (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · mn ᠬᠦᠷᠳᠦ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · de Felge (wheel rim) · pam parulang (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · el πηδάλιο (steering device in a vessel) · wuu 輪盤 /轮盘 (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ig wiil (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · de Rad (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · hak 輪子 /轮子 (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · am መንኮራኩር (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · aht nekeghalbasi (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sq rrath (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · nrf reue (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · kk доңғалақ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · haw pokakā (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · tts กงจักร (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · tab чарх (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · xh ivili (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · wym rōt (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · nl stuurwiel (steering device in a vessel) · cu коло (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · rw umutende (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · cy troell (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ln yika (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · pam gulung (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · et rool (steering device in a vessel) · non hvēl (lowest straight in poker) · rup arãcoatã (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · kk тегермеш (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · lt ratas (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · fo hjól (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · fy tsjil (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · mn хүрд (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · tt тәгәрмәч (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ms lereng (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · is hjól (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · pms rova (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · niv кулгур̌ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · lv rats (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · rm roda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · gu ચક્ર (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · bo འཁོར་ལོ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sa चक्र (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · zh 舵輪 /舵轮 (steering device in a vessel) · ba тәгәрмәс (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · vi bánh xe (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · zu isondo (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · li raad (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · te చక్రము (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · hy ակ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ms roda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · rgn röda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · an rueda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · hi चक्र (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · et rooliratas (steering device in a vessel) · twf tʼáwaną (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · hit 𒄷𒌨𒆠𒅖 (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · rhg sakka (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sl kolo (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · bg джанта (wheel rim) · lg namuziga (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sc roda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ceb ligid (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · izh pöörä (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · kmr çerx (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · bua мөөр (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · da hjul (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · zh гўлў (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · th ล้อรถ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · pi စက္က (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · nap rota (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · as চকা (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · lb Steierrad (steering device in a vessel) · he אוֹפָן (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · de Radl (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · orv коло (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · vec rua (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · nah malacatl (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ar عجلة (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ko 차륜 (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · zh 輪子 /轮子 (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · kk төңгелек (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · tr çark (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · fa چَرْخ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ta சில்லு (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ta சக்கிரம் (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sc arroda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · qu qalla (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sh felga (wheel rim) · ast rueda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ug چاق (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ty huira (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · tr jant (wheel rim) · fr roue (wheel rim) · egl róda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · shn ၸၢၵ်ႈ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sd اَيٽُ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · az təkər (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · new घःचा (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · stq Jool (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · he הגה (steering device in a vessel) · ca roda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · io roto (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · izh veero (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · fur ruede (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ks ژَکٕر (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · af wiel (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · os цалх (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · uk ко́лесо (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · uz gʻildirak (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · nds Rad (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sh ко̏ло (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · eu txirringa (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · es llanta (wheel rim) · ko 림 (wheel rim) · ko 실력자 (person with a great deal of power or influence) · ga roth (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · et ratas (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · niv кулкус (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · lb Rad (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · bg щурва́л (steering device in a vessel) · sh то̀чак (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · fo hvæl (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · oj detibised (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · rup roatã (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ne पाङ्ग्रा (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · yai чарх (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · av чарх (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · kk дөңгелек (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sga roth (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · el ρόδα (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · fi pyörä (lowest straight in poker) · oc ròda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · az çarx (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · non hvēl (steering device in a vessel) · id roda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ota چرخ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · mk тркало (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · odt wiel (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · enm whel (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · th กง (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · cy rhod (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ext roalga (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · roa-opt roda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · be штурва́л (steering device in a vessel) · ru штурва́л (steering device in a vessel) · fi ruori (steering device in a vessel) · it timone (steering device in a vessel) · mg foina (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · zh 軲轆 /轱辘 (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · wo tangka (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · nah malakatl (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · hy անիվ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · haw huila (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · eu gurpil (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · hy ղեկանիվ (steering device in a vessel) · ar عَجَلَة (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · es pez gordo (person with a great deal of power or influence) · ti ዕንክሊል (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · lad rueda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · my ဘီး (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · tl gulong (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · vec roda (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · cjs тегелек (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · rup furcutash (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · nn hjul (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · eu txirrika (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · tg чарх (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · fa چَرْخ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · non hvēl (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sh kormilo (steering device in a vessel) · so shaag (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ang hwēol (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · nb hjul (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sw gurudumu (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · wa rowe (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · tk çarh (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · sh kȍlo (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · av гьакибер (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ko 거물 (person with a great deal of power or influence) · ps ارابه (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · fr roue (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · rar porotātā (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · bg колело́ (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · cv кустӑрма (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation) · ny wiro (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation)

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wheel en · VERB

Pronunciation

(General-American) audio
[ˈʍɪi̯l] ~ /ˈw̥iːl/ without the wine–whine merger
/ˈʍiːl/ without the wine–whine merger
[ˈwɪi̯l] wine–whine merger
/ˈwiːl/ wine–whine merger
[ˈw̥ɪi̯l] without the wine–whine merger

Etymology

Meanings

(transitive) To roll along on wheels.
- Wheel that trolley over here, would you?
- I had to wheel my bicycle up a steep hill.
- He […] cleared the table; piled everything on the dumb-waiter; gave us our wine-glasses; and, of his own accord, wheeled the dumb-waiter into the pantry. 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 28, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
- On reaching the slip, the barrow was wheeled off the truck onto a scaffolding gantry built out over the wall, and the concrete tipped down a corrugated iron chute on to a steel plate. 1959 December 14, Richard Hope, “Narrow Gauge Landslip”, in Railway Magazine, page 866:
- But two cheerful women servants appeared from what was presumably the kitchen direction, wheeling a curious wicker erection, which his small guide informed him was called Aunt Clatter—manifestly deservedly—and which bore on its shelves the substance of the meal. 1916, H. G. Wells, Mr. Britling Sees It Through, Book I, Chapter 1, § 9:
- Why should we confine a body of men to making laws, when so many of them might be more usefully employed in wheeling barrows? 1841, “Parliamentary Masons.—Parliamentary Pictures”, in Punch, volume I, page 162:
(transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
- Bob was wheeling the baby up and down, Mabel watching him, hawk-eyed, as though she suspected him of harboring intentions of tipping the cab over. 1924, Bess Streeter Aldrich, chapter 3, in Mother Mason:
- We open in a grimy, fluorescent-lit military base somewhere in rural England, where the girl from the poster, Melanie (Sennia Nanua), is the star student in a class full of children who are wheeled into school—or at least, the nondescript concrete room that serves as a school—with their arms, legs, and foreheads bound to their wheelchairs by leather straps. 2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club:
- She wheeled the dung in the wheelbarrow Along a stretch of road; But she always ran away and left Her not-nice load, 1916, Robert Frost, “A Girl’s Garden”, in Mountain Interval, New York: Henry Holt & Co, page 61:
- The patient was wheeled out of the ER.
(dated, intransitive) To ride a bicycle or tricycle.
(intransitive) To make a circular movement.
- My arms wheeled frantically in the air as I tried to signal for help.
(intransitive) To move smoothly and easily, as if on wheels.
- I wheeled through the gathering, making all my appointed stops.
(intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
- But before he could move a step a taxi-cab turned into the Adelphi from the Strand, and wheeling in front of their faces, stopped at Calladine's door. 1917, A. E. W. Mason, chapter 3, in The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel:
- The dog screamed, and, wheeling in terror, galloped headlong in a new direction. 1898, Stephen Crane, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky:
- Your daughter, if you have not given her leave, I say again, hath made a gross revolt; Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes In an extravagant and wheeling stranger Of here and every where. c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- Enver, Jemal and Feisal watched the troops wheeling and turning in the dusty plain outside the city gate, rushing up and down in mimic camel-battle, or spurring their horses in the javelin game after immemorial Arab fashion. 1922, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Introduction, Chapter 5:
- The gulls in the river were flying in long, lazy curves, dipping down to the water, skimming it an instant, and then wheeling up again with easy, slanting wings. 1912, James Stephens, chapter 8, in The Charwoman’s Daughter:
(transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
- […] he did as Menelaus had said, and set off running as soon as he had given his armour to a comrade, Laodocus, who was wheeling his horses round, close beside him. 1898, Samuel Butler, The Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Prose, Book 17:
- Then wheeling his black steed suddenly, he raced away before the dazed soldiers could get their wits together to send a shower of arrows after him. 1931, Robert E. Howard, chapter 2, in Hawks of Outremer:
(intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
- The nineteenth Autumn has come upon me / Since I first made my count. / I saw, before I had well finished, / All suddenly mount / And scatter wheeling in great broken rings / Upon their clamorous wings. 1917 November, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, “The Wild Swans at Coole”, in The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse, Churchtown, Dundrum [Dublin]: The Cuala Press, →OCLC, page 1:
- The vulture wheeled above us.
- We could see the poor brute in the bottom, as the vultures came wheeling down like baroque aeroplanes; its ribs were already bare. 1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet, Part II, Chapter 8:
- […] Each aloft Upon his narrowed eminence bore globes Of wheeling suns, or stars, or semblances Of either, showering circular abyss Of radiance. 1829, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Timbuctoo, lines 63–67:
- As the moon wheels around Earth every 28 days and shows us a progressively greater and then stingier slice of its sun-lightened face, the distance between the moon and Earth changes, too. At the nearest point along its egg-shaped orbit, its perigee, the moon may be 26,000 miles closer to us than it is at its far point. 2014 September 7, Natalie Angier, “The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal: Supermoon revives interest in its violent origins and hidden face, International New York Times, 10 September 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times:
(transitive) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.
- Now Heav’n in all her Glorie shon, and rowld Her motions, as the great first-Movers hand First wheeld thir course; 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 499-501:
- […] upward, in the mellow blush of day, The noisy bittern wheeled his spiral way. 1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sunrise on the Hills:
- Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds: 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, lines 5–8:
(intransitive, qualifier: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".
(transitive) To execute (a person) using the breaking wheel.

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Spelling	Features	Source
wheeled	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
wheeled	Tense=Past	lexicographic
wheeling	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
wheels	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic

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wheel away · word-wheeling · wheel around · wheel-up

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el τσουλάω (To roll along as on wheels) · it girare (To roll along as on wheels) · mk тркала (To roll along as on wheels) · it roteare (To roll along as on wheels) · ca rodar (To roll along as on wheels) · es rodar (To roll along as on wheels) · bg вия се (To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air) · fi rullata (To roll along as on wheels) · tr dönmek (To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air) · ca voltar (To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air) · it ruotare (To roll along as on wheels) · bg търкалям (To roll along as on wheels) · mk кружи (To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air) · fr rouler (To roll along as on wheels) · sv rulla (To roll along as on wheels) · fi kaarrella (To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air) · ko 선회하다 (To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air) · it roteare (To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air) · bg кръжа (To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air) · es circunvolar (To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air) · mi wīra (To roll along as on wheels) · ko 구르다 (To roll along as on wheels) · it volteggiare (To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air) · fi kaartaa (To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air) · it turbinare (To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air) · es volar en círculos (To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air) · war lid-o (To roll along as on wheels) · pt rodar (To roll along as on wheels) · de kreisen (To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air)

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wheel en · NOUN

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wheel en · VERB

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