Sekirov Dictionary

wheel

/ˈwiːl/

noun 23
verb 11
forms 5
phrases 13

noun23

a round object that turns around its center, such as one under a car or inside a machine
A spinning wheel.
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A potter's wheel.
- Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. — 1611
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A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.
- He fell asleep at the wheel.
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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
(figurative) The control of, or ability to steer, the course of events.
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A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
- [He] throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel. — 1667
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.
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(figurative) A recurring or cyclical course of events.
- 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
(slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
(slang, old-fashioned) A superuser on certain systems.
A round portion of cheese.
A Catherine wheel firework.
A wheelrim.
The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.
(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.
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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.
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(no longer used) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
- Flashing thick flames , wheel within wheel undrawn — 1667
(informal, no longer used) A bicycle or tricycle.
(slang, no longer used) A dollar.
(slang, no longer used) A crown coin.

verb11

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To roll along on wheels.
- Wheel that trolley over here, would you?
- I had to wheel my bicycle up a steep hill.
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To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
- The patient was wheeled out of the ER.
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To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
- 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. — 1603
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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
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To make a circular movement.
- My arms wheeled frantically in the air as I tried to signal for help.
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To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
- The vulture wheeled above us.
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To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.
- 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
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To move smoothly and easily, as if on wheels.
- I wheeled through the gathering, making all my appointed stops.
(old-fashioned) To ride a bicycle or tricycle.
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To reload a track; to play a wheel-up.
- The crowd wanted to track to be played again, so they shouted out "Wheel it".
To execute (a person) using the breaking wheel.

forms

wheeled · wheeling · wheeleth · wheels · wheelest

Phrases with wheel

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