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Definition wheel

Etymology

From Middle English whele, from Old English hw?ogol, hw?ol, from Proto-Germanic *hwehwl?, *hweul? (compare West Frisian tsjil, Dutch wiel, Danish hjul), from Proto-Indo-European *k?ek?lóm, *k?ék?los, *k?ék?léh? (compare Tocharian B kokale (“cart, wagon”), Ancient Greek ?????? (kúklos, “cycle, wheel”), Avestan ?????‎ (caxra), Sanskrit ???? (cakrá)), reduplication of *k?el- (“to turn”) and a suffix (literally "(the thing that) turns and turns"; compare Latin col? (“to till, cultivate”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B käl- (“to bear; bring”), Ancient Greek ???? (pél?, “to come into existence, become”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (kolo, “wheel”), Albanian sjell (“to bring, carry, turn around”), Avestan ???????‎ (caraiti, “it circulates”), Sanskrit ???? (cárati, “it moves, wanders”)). Doublet of cycle and chakra.

Noun

wheel (plural wheels)

1. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
   1. (informal, with "the") A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.
   2. (nautical) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
   3. A spinning wheel.
   4. A potter's wheel.
   5. (heraldry) This device used as a heraldic charge, usually with six spokes.
2. The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.
3. (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
4. (poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5.
5. (automotive) A wheelrim.
6. A round portion of cheese.
7. A Catherine wheel firework.
8. (obsolete) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
9. A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
10. (computing, dated) A superuser on certain systems.

Verb

wheel (third-person singular simple present wheels, present participle wheeling, simple past and past participle wheeled)

1. (intransitive or transitive) To roll along on wheels.
2. (transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
3. (intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
4. (transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
5. (intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
6. (transitive) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.

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