Wheel

Noun

 * 1) A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
 * 2)  A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.
 * 3)  The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
 * 4)  A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
 * 5)  The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5.
 * 6)  wheel rim

Synonyms

 * rim

Derived terms

 * balance wheel
 * behind the wheel
 * big wheel
 * breaking wheel
 * buffing wheel
 * cartwheel
 * car wheel
 * Catherine wheel
 * click wheel
 * cog wheel, cogwheel
 * color wheel, colour wheel
 * daisy wheel
 * disk wheel
 * driving wheel
 * eighteen-wheeler
 * escape wheel
 * Ferris wheel
 * fifth wheel
 * flywheel
 * foundling wheel
 * four-wheel


 * four-wheel drive
 * freewheel
 * freewheeling
 * front-wheel drive
 * gear wheel, gearwheel
 * Geneva wheel
 * hell on wheels
 * idle wheel
 * kick wheel
 * lantern wheel
 * leading wheel
 * mag wheel
 * meals on wheels
 * mill wheel
 * motorcycle wheel
 * paddle wheel
 * pinwheel
 * planet wheel
 * potter's wheel
 * prayer wheel
 * print wheel


 * ratchet wheel
 * reinvent the wheel
 * roulette wheel
 * scoop wheel, scoopwheel
 * skateboard wheel
 * spinning wheel
 * spin one's wheels
 * sprocket wheel
 * the squeaky wheel gets the grease
 * steel wheel
 * steering wheel
 * stern-wheeler
 * take the wheel
 * the wheel
 * three-wheeler
 * tide wheel
 * trailing wheel
 * training wheels
 * two-wheeler
 * wagon wheel
 * water wheel


 * wheel and axle
 * wheelbarrow
 * wheelbase
 * wheel breadth
 * wheelchair
 * wheel clamp
 * wheeled
 * wheelhouse
 * wheelie
 * wheelie bin
 * the wheels fell off
 * wheel of Fortune
 * wheel of life
 * wheel rim
 * wheels
 * wheelspin
 * wheelwright
 * wheely
 * worm wheel

Verb

 * 1)  To roll along as on wheels.
 * Wheel that trolley over here, would you?
 * 1)  To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
 * The vulture wheeled above us.
 * 1)  To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.

Derived terms

 * wheel around
 * wheel away


 * word-wheeling

Adjectives for Wheel
ardent; muffled; toothed; sentient; tardy; interior; flaming; buckled; whirling; fervid; humming; formidable; jarring; worm-eaten; gilded; living; westering; broad-tired; massive; shining; wobbling; rolling; restless; ponderous; creaking; glowing; retreating; worn-out; waggly; spinning; whirring; gambling.

Thesaurus
BMOC, Charybdis, Ferris wheel, O, Procrustean bed, airscrew, alternate, annular muscle, annulus, areola, arsis, association, aureole, auto, avert, balance wheel, be here again, beat, bed of Procrustes, bevel gear, bicycle, big cheese, big noise, big shot, big wheel, big-time operator, big-timer, bike, boot, bout, buffing wheel, bus, carousel, cartwheel, caster, catch a train, centrifugate, centrifuge, chaplet, charioteer, chauffeur, chopper, circle, circuit, circuiteer, circular saw, circulate, circulation, circumambulate, circumference, circummigrate, circumnavigate, circumrotate, circumvent, circumvolute, circumvolution, circus, close the circle, closed circle, cog, cogwheel, come about, come again, come and go, come around, come full circle, come round, come round again, come up again, compass, conference, contrate wheel, corona, coronet, course, crank, crown, crown wheel, cycle, cycloidal gear, deflect, describe a circle, diadem, diastole, discus, disk, divert, dizzy round, do a flip-flop, do an about-face, downbeat, drive, drive wheel, driver, eddy, encircle, encompass, entrain, escape wheel, eternal return, fairy ring, fan, fetch about, flank, flywheel, garland, gear, gearwheel, girdle, girdle the globe, glory, go about, go around, go by rail, go round, go the round, gurge, gyrate, gyration, gyre, gyrowheel, halo, have second thoughts, heel, helm, high-muck-a-muck, his nibs, idler wheel, impeller, intermit, iron, iron heel, joyride, kick wheel, lap, lasso, logical circle, loop, looplet, maelstrom, magic circle, make a circuit, make a train, merry-go-round, mill wheel, minibike, motocycle, motor, motorbike, motorcycle, noose, orbit, oscillate, paddle wheel, pedal, pedal wheel, pedicab, pig, pilot, pinion, pinwheel, pirouette, piston, pivot, pivot about, power wheel, prayer wheel, prop, propellant, propeller, propulsor, pulley, pulsate, pulse, put about, rack, radius, rat race, reappear, recur, reel, reins, reins of government, reoccur, repeat, return, revolution, revolve, ride, ring, road-bike, roll around, roller, rolling stone, rondelle, rotate, rotation, rotator, rotor, roulette wheel, round, roundabout, roundel, rudder, rundle, saucer, scarpines, screw, screw propeller, series, sheer, skirt, spell, sphincter, spin, spiral, stagger, steering wheel, surge, surround, swing, swing round, swirl, swivel, systole, take a joyride, taxi, tergiversate, thesis, thumbscrew, tiller, tool, top, totter, trail bike, tricycle, trike, truck, truckle, turbine, turn, turn a pirouette, turn about, turn around, turn round, turn tail, twin screws, twirl, twist, undulate, upbeat, veer, veer around, vicious circle, volte-face, vortex, wamble, water wheel, wheel about, wheel around, wheel of fortune, whip, whirl, whirlabout, whirler, whirligig, whirlpool, whirlwind, wind, wreath

Etymology
whele:, from hweogol:, hweol:, from  (cf. West Frisian tsjil:, Dutch wiel:, Danish hjul:), from  (cf. Tocharian B kokale: 'cart, wagon', Ancient Greek κύκλος: 'cycle, wheel', Avestan undefined:, Sanskrit undefined:), reduplication of *kʷel 'to turn' (cf. Welsh dymdymchwel: 'to overturn, upset', Latin colere: 'to till, cultivate', Tocharian AB undefined: 'to bear; bring', Ancient Greek (Aeolic) pélesthai: 'to be in motion',  коло: 'wheel', Albanian sjell: 'to turn around', Avestan undefined: 'it circulates', Sanskrit undefined: 'it moves, wanders').

Pronunciation

 * , we'll
 * , we'll
 * , we'll
 * , we'll

Noun
Lao: ກົງ
 * Albanian: rrotë
 * Arabic: (ʕájala)
 * Armenian: ,
 * Basque: gurpil, txirringa, txirrika
 * Bulgarian: колело
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: roda
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: τροχός (trokhós), ρόδα (róda)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: roto
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 車輪 (しゃりん, sharin),
 * Kannada: ಚಕ್ರ (chakra)
 * Korean: 바퀴 (bakwi)
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:, rats
 * Lithuanian:
 * Malayalam: ചക്രം
 * Maltese: rota


 * Manx:
 * Maori: wīra
 * Mongolian: хүрд
 * Nahuatl: malacatl, malakatl
 * Occitan: ròda, arròda
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: коло (kolo)
 * Glagolitic:
 * Old Irish:
 * Persian: (charx)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Santali:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: котач
 * Roman: kotač
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: gurudumu (noun 5/6)
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: சில்லு
 * Taos: t’áwaną
 * Telugu:, చక్రము
 * Thai: (lór rót),  (lór)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: پہیہ
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon: rowe
 * Welsh: olwyn
 * West Frisian:
 * West Frisian:


 * Catalan:
 * French: volant
 * Greek:
 * Italian:


 * Latvian: stūres rats
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese: tay lái


 * Catalan: roda de timó
 * Estonian: rooliratas, tüür, rool
 * Finnish:, ,  ruoriratti
 * German: Steuerrad


 * Greek:
 * Italian:, ruota del timone
 * Vietnamese: bánh lái


 * Catalan: peix gros
 * Greek:


 * Italian:
 * Spanish: pez gordo


 * French:
 * Italian: ,


 * Spanish:

Verb

 * Catalan:
 * Italian:, ,


 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:, kaarrella
 * German:


 * Italian:, ,
 * Spanish: circunvolar, volar en círculos