a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.
2.
any machine, apparatus, instrument, etc., shaped like this or having a circular frame, disk, or revolving drum as an essential feature: a potter's wheel; roulette wheel; spinning wheel.
spin one's wheels, Informal. to expend or waste effort to no avail: He spun his wheels on that project for two years.
28.
wheel and deal, Informal. to operate dynamically for one's own profit or benefit.
29.
wheels within wheels, an involved interaction of motives or agencies operating to produce the final result: Government agencies are a study of wheels within wheels.
[Origin: bef. 900; (n.) ME whel(e), OE hwéol, hweohl; c. D wiel, ON hjōl; akin to Gk kýklos (see cycle); (v.) ME, deriv. of the n.]
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.]
O.E. hweol, hweogol, from P.Gmc. *khwekhwlan, *khwegwlan (cf. O.N. hvel, O.Swed. hiughl, O.Fris. hwel, M.Du. weel), from PIE *k(w)e-k(w)lo- "wheel, circle" (cf. O.C.S. kolo "wheel"), a reduplicated form from base *k(w)el- "to go round" (see cycle). Figurative sense is early 14c. The verb meaning "to turn like a wheel" is attested from c.1225; trans. sense attested from c.1374. Slang wheels "a car" is recorded from 1959. Wheeler-dealer is from 1950s, a rhyming elaboration of dealer; wheelie is from 1966. Wheelchair first recorded c.1700.
a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines)
2.
a handwheel that is used for steering [syn: steering wheel]
3.
forces that provide energy and direction; "the wheels of government began to turn"
4.
a circular helm to control the rudder of a vessel
5.
game equipment consisting of a wheel with slots that is used for gambling; the wheel rotates horizontally and players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in [syn: roulette wheel]
6.
an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims [syn: rack]
7.
a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals [syn: bicycle]
verb
1.
change directions as if revolving on a pivot; "They wheeled their horses around and left"
2.
wheel somebody or something
3.
move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle; "The President's convoy rolled past the crowds"
a circular frame or disc turning on a rod or axle, on which vehicles etc move along the ground Example: A bicycle has two wheels, a tricycle three, and most cars four; a cartwheel
Arabic:
دولاب، عَجَل
Chinese (Simplified):
轮，车轮
Chinese (Traditional):
輪，車輪
Czech:
kolo
Danish:
hjul; -hjul
Dutch:
wiel
Estonian:
ratas
Finnish:
pyörä
French:
roue
German:
das Rad
Greek:
τροχός, ρόδα
Hungarian:
kerék
Icelandic:
hjól
Indonesian:
roda
Italian:
ruota
Japanese:
車輪
Korean:
바퀴
Latvian:
ritenis
Lithuanian:
ratas
Norwegian:
hjul
Polish:
koło
Portuguese (Brazil):
roda
Portuguese (Portugal):
roda
Romanian:
roată; volan
Russian:
колесо
Slovak:
koleso
Slovenian:
kolo
Spanish:
rueda
Swedish:
hjul
Turkish:
tekerlek
wheel2[wiːl]noun
any of several things similar in shape and action Example: a potter's wheel; He was found drunk at the wheel (= steering-wheel) of his car.
Arabic:
دولاب القِيادَه
Chinese (Simplified):
旋盘
Chinese (Traditional):
旋盤
Czech:
kruh, volant
Danish:
(dreje-)skive; rat
Dutch:
rad, wiel, stuur
Estonian:
rool, keder
Finnish:
pyörä
French:
tour, volant
German:
die Scheibe, das Steuer
Greek:
τροχός, τιμόνι
Hungarian:
volán
Icelandic:
hjól; leirkerahjól, stÿri
Indonesian:
setir
Italian:
ruota; volante
Japanese:
ハンドル
Korean:
바퀴의 형태·기능을 갖춘 장치
Latvian:
rats; virpa; stūre
Lithuanian:
ratas
Norwegian:
hjul, skive, ratt, ror, rokk
Polish:
koło, kierownica
Portuguese (Portugal):
volante
Romanian:
roată
Russian:
руль
Slovak:
kruh, volant
Slovenian:
kolovrat; volan
Spanish:
volante
Swedish:
hjul, skiva, trissa, ratt
Turkish:
tekerlek cinsi şeyler
wheel1[wiːl]verb
to cause to move on wheels Example: He wheeled his bicycle along the path.
Arabic:
يَدْفَع ، يُحَرِّك العَجَلات
Chinese (Simplified):
驾车前进
Chinese (Traditional):
駕車前進
Czech:
vést
Danish:
trække; trille; skubbe
Dutch:
duwen
Estonian:
veeretama, rattaga sõitma
Finnish:
lykätä
French:
(faire) rouler, pousser
German:
schieben, rollen
Hungarian:
hajt
Icelandic:
rúlla, ÿta, aka (á undan sér)
Indonesian:
menjalankan
Italian:
pedalare
Japanese:
動かす
Korean:
…을 바퀴로 움직이다
Latvian:
stumt; vadīt; stūrēt
Lithuanian:
stumti, ritinti, važiuoti (kuo)
Norwegian:
trille, kjøre, gå og leie
Polish:
pchać, jechać na, toczyć
Portuguese (Brazil):
rolar, girar
Portuguese (Portugal):
rodar
Romanian:
a merge cu bicicleta
Russian:
катить; везти
Slovak:
viesť
Slovenian:
voziti
Spanish:
conducir; girar
Swedish:
rulla, cykla
Turkish:
iterek, *çekerek götürmek
wheel2[wiːl]verb
to (cause to) turn quickly Example: He wheeled round and slapped me.
wheel [slang "big wheel" for a powerful person] A person who has an active wheel bit. "We need to find a wheel to unwedge the hung tape drives." (See wedged). [The Jargon File]
Cy"cle\ (s?"k'l), n. [F. ycle, LL. cyclus, fr. Gr. ky`klos ring or circle, cycle; akin to Skr. cakra wheel, circle. See Wheel.]1. An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres. --Milton. 2. An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year. Wages . . . bear a full proportion . . . to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years. --Burke. 3. An age; a long period of time. Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. --Tennyson. 4. An orderly list for a given time; a calendar. [Obs.] We . . . present our gardeners with a complete cycle of what is requisite to be done throughout every month of the year. --Evelyn. 5. The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins. 6. (Bot.) One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves. --Gray. 7. A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede. Calippic cycle, a period of 76 years, or four Metonic cycles; -- so called from Calippus, who proposed it as an improvement on the Metonic cycle. Cycle of eclipses, a period of about 6,586 days, the time of revolution of the moon's node; -- called Saros by the Chaldeans. Cycle of indiction, a period of 15 years, employed in Roman and ecclesiastical chronology, not founded on any astronomical period, but having reference to certain judicial acts which took place at stated epochs under the Greek emperors. Cycle of the moon, or Metonic cycle, a period of 19 years, after the lapse of which the new and full moon returns to the same day of the year; -- so called from Meton, who first proposed it. Cycle of the sun, Solar cycle, a period of 28 years, at the end of which time the days of the month return to the same days of the week. The dominical or Sunday letter follows the same order; hence the solar cycle is also called the cycle of the Sunday letter. In the Gregorian calendar the solar cycle is in general interrupted at the end of the century.
Rose\, n. [AS. rose, L. rosa, probably akin to Gr. ?, Armor. vard, OPer. vareda; and perhaps to E. wort: cf. F. rose, from the Latin. Cf. Copperas, Rhododendron.]1. A flower and shrub of any species of the genus Rosa, of which there are many species, mostly found in the morthern hemispere Note: Roses are shrubs with pinnate leaves and usually prickly stems. The flowers are large, and in the wild state have five petals of a color varying from deep pink to white, or sometimes yellow. By cultivation and hybridizing the number of petals is greatly increased and the natural perfume enhanced. In this way many distinct classes of roses have been formed, as the Banksia, Baurbon, Boursalt, China, Noisette, hybrid perpetual, etc., with multitudes of varieties in nearly every class. 2. A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe. --Sha. 3. (Arch.) A rose window. See Rose window, below. 4. A perforated nozzle, as of a pipe, spout, etc., for delivering water in fine jets; a rosehead; also, a strainer at the foot of a pump. 5. (Med.) The erysipelas. --Dunglison. 6. The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card with radiating lines, used in other instruments. 7. The color of a rose; rose-red; pink. 8. A diamond. See Rose diamond, below. Cabbage rose, China rose, etc. See under Cabbage, China, etc. Corn rose (Bot.) See Corn poppy, under Corn. Infantile rose (Med.), a variety of roseola. Jamaica rose. (Bot.) See under Jamaica. Rose acacia (Bot.), a low American leguminous shrub (Robinia hispida) with handsome clusters of rose-colored blossoms. Rose aniline. (Chem.) Same as Rosaniline. Rose apple (Bot.), the fruit of the tropical myrtaceous tree Eugenia Jambos. It is an edible berry an inch or more in diameter, and is said to have a very strong roselike perfume. Rose beetle. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A small yellowish or buff longlegged beetle (Macrodactylus subspinosus), which eats the leaves of various plants, and is often very injurious to rosebushes, apple trees, grapevines, etc. Called also rose bug, and rose chafer. (b) The European chafer. Rose bug. (Zo["o]l.) same as Rose beetle, Rose chafer. Rose burner, a kind of gas-burner producing a rose-shaped flame. Rose camphor (Chem.), a solid odorless substance which separates from rose oil. Rose campion. (Bot.) See under Campion. Rose catarrh (Med.), rose cold. Rose chafer. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A common European beetle (Cetonia aurata) which is often very injurious to rosebushes; -- called also rose beetle, and rose fly. (b) The rose beetle (a) . Rose cold (Med.), a variety of hay fever, sometimes attributed to the inhalation of the effluvia of roses. See Hay fever, under Hay. Rose color, the color of a rose; pink; hence, a beautiful hue or appearance; fancied beauty, attractiveness, or promise. Rose de Pompadour, Rose du Barry, names succesively given to a delicate rose color used on S[`e]vres porcelain. Rose diamond, a diamond, one side of which is flat, and the other cut into twenty-four triangular facets in two ranges which form a convex face pointed at the top. Cf. Brilliant, n. Rose ear. See under Ear. Rose elder (Bot.), the Guelder-rose. Rose engine, a machine, or an appendage to a turning lathe, by which a surface or wood, metal, etc., is engraved with a variety of curved lines. --Craig. Rose family (Bot.) the Rosece[ae]. See Rosaceous. Rose fever (Med.), rose cold. Rose fly (Zo["o]l.), a rose betle, or rose chafer. Rose gall (Zo["o]l.), any gall found on rosebushes. See Bedeguar. Rose knot, a ribbon, or other pliade band plaited so as to resemble a rose; a rosette. Rose lake, Rose madder, a rich tint prepared from lac and madder precipitated on an earthy basis. --Fairholt. Rose mallow. (Bot.) (a) A name of several malvaceous plants of the genus Hibiscus, with large rose-colored flowers. (b) the hollyhock. Rose nail, a nail with a convex, faceted head. Rose noble, an ancient English gold coin, stamped with the figure of a rose, first struck in the reign of Edward III., and current at 6s. 8d. --Sir W. Scott. Rose of China. (Bot.) See China rose (b), under China. Rose of Jericho (Bot.), a Syrian cruciferous plant (Anastatica Hierochuntica) which rolls up when dry, and expands again when moistened; -- called also resurrection plant. Rose of Sharon (Bot.), an ornamental malvaceous shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus). In the Bible the name is used for some flower not yet identified, perhaps a Narcissus, or possibly the great lotus flower. Rose oil (Chem.), the yellow essential oil extracted from various species of rose blossoms, and forming the chief part of attar of roses. Rose pink, a pigment of a rose color, made by dyeing chalk or whiting with a decoction of Brazil wood and alum; also, the color of the pigment. Rose quartz (Min.), a variety of quartz which is rose-red. Rose rash. (Med.) Same as Roseola. Rose slug (Zo["o]l.), the small green larva of a black sawfly (Selandria ros[ae]). These larv[ae] feed in groups on the parenchyma of the leaves of rosebushes, and are often abundant and very destructive. Rose window (Arch.), a circular window filled with ornamental tracery. Called also Catherine wheel, and marigold window. Cf. wheel window, under Wheel. Summer rose (Med.), a variety of roseola. See Roseola. Under the rose [a translation of L. sub rosa], in secret; privately; in a manner that forbids disclosure; -- the rose being among the ancients the symbol of secrecy, and hung up at entertainments as a token that nothing there said was to be divulged. Wars of the Roses (Eng. Hist.), feuds between the Houses of York and Lancaster, the white rose being the badge of the House of York, and the red rose of the House of Lancaster.
Steel\, n. [AS. st[=e]l, st[=y]l, st[=y]le; akin to D. staal, G. stahl, OHG. stahal, Icel. st[=a]l, Dan. staal, Sw. st[*a]l, Old Prussian stakla.]1. (Metal) A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon. 2. An instrument or implement made of steel; as: (a) A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc. "Brave Macbeth . . . with his brandished steel." --Shak. While doubting thus he stood, Received the steel bathed in his brother's blood. --Dryden. (b) An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives. (c) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint. 3. Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor. "Heads of steel." --Johnson. "Manhood's heart of steel." --Byron. 4. (Med.) A chalybeate medicine. --Dunglison. Note: Steel is often used in the formation of compounds, generally of obvious meaning; as, steel-clad, steel-girt, steel-hearted, steel-plated, steel-pointed, etc. Bessemer steel (Metal.) See in the Vocabulary. Blister steel. (Metal.) See under Blister. Cast steel (Metal.), a fine variety of steel, originally made by smelting blister or cementation steel; hence, ordinarily, steel of any process of production when remelted and cast. Cromium steel (Metal.), a hard, tenacious variety containing a little cromium, and somewhat resembling tungsten steel. Mild steel (Metal.), a kind of steel having a lower proportion of carbon than ordinary steel, rendering it softer and more malleable. Puddled steel (Metal.), a variety of steel produced from cast iron by the puddling process. Steel duck (Zo["o]l.), the goosander, or merganser. [Prov. Eng.] Steel mill. (a) (Firearms) See Wheel lock, under Wheel. (b) A mill which has steel grinding surfaces. (c) A mill where steel is manufactured. Steel trap, a trap for catching wild animals. It consists of two iron jaws, which close by means of a powerful steel spring when the animal disturbs the catch, or tongue, by which they are kept open. Steel wine, wine, usually sherry, in which steel filings have been placed for a considerable time, -- used as a medicine. Tincture of steel (Med.), an alcoholic solution of the chloride of iron. Tungsten steel (Metal.), a variety of steel containing a small amount of tungsten, and noted for its tenacity and hardness, as well as for its malleability and tempering qualities. It is also noted for its magnetic properties.
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