wheel

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

wheels

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

wheel

past (v2)

wheeled

past participle (v3)

wheeled

present participle

wheeling

3rd person singular

wheels

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.

   • Turn, turn, my wheel! This earthen jar / A touch can make, a touch can mar.
   • Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
   • He fell asleep at the wheel.

2. 2.The lowest straight in poker: ace-2-3-4-5.(slang)

3. 3.The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.

4. 4.A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.(slang)

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To make a circular movement.

   • My arms wheeled frantically in the air as I tried to signal for help.

2. 2.To roll along on wheels.

   • Wheel that trolley over here, would you?
   • I had to wheel my bicycle up a steep hill.
   • Why should we confine a body of men to making laws, when so many of them might be more usefully employed in wheeling barrows?

3. 3.To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.

   • The patient was wheeled out of the ER.
   • Bob was wheeling the baby up and down, Mabel watching him, hawk-eyed, as though she suspected him of harboring intentions of tipping the cab over.

4. 4.To move smoothly and easily, as if on wheels.

   • I wheeled through the gathering, making all my appointed stops.

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