A solid disk or a rigid circular ring connected by spokes to a hub, designed to turn around an axle passed through the center.
Something resembling such a disk or ring in appearance or movement or having a wheel as its principal part or characteristic, as:
The steering device on a vehicle.
A potter's wheel.
A water wheel.
A spinning wheel.
Games A device used in roulette and other games of chance.
A firework that rotates while burning.
Informal A bicycle.
An instrument to which a victim was bound for torture during the Middle Ages.
wheels Forces that provide energy, movement, or direction: the wheels of commerce.
The act or process of turning; revolution or rotation.
A military maneuver executed in order to change the direction of movement of a formation, as of troops or ships, in which the formation is maintained while the outer unit describes an arc and the inner or center unit remains stationary as a pivot.
wheelsSlang A motor vehicle or access thereto: Do you have wheels tonight?
Slang A person with a great deal of power or influence: a wheel in state government.
v.
wheeled, wheel·ing, wheels
v.
tr.
To roll, move, or transport on wheels or a wheel.
To cause to turn around or as if around a central axis; revolve or rotate.
To provide with wheels or a wheel.
v.
intr.
To turn around or as if around a central axis; revolve or rotate.
To roll or move on or as if on wheels or a wheel.
To fly in a curving or circular course: A flock of gulls wheeled just above the dock.
To turn or whirl around in place; pivot: "The boy wheeled and the fried eggs leaped from his tray"(Ivan Gold).
To reverse one's opinion or practice: Don't be surprised if the boss wheels about on that idea.
[Middle English, from Old English hwēol; see kwel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
Wheel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wheeled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wheeling.]1. To convey on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle; as, to wheel a load of hay or wood. 2. To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to cause to gyrate; to make or perform in a circle. "The beetle wheels her droning flight." --Gray. Now heaven, in all her glory, shone, and rolled Her motions, as the great first mover's hand First wheeled their course. --Milton.
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