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| Domain | Definitions |
Energy | A wheel that is designed to use the weight and/or force of moving water to turn it, primarily to operate machinery or grind grain. (references) |
Mining | A wheel so arranged with floats, buckets, etc., that it may be turned by flowing water; used to drive machinery, raise water, etc. The overshot and undershot water wheel, the breast wheel, and the tub wheel are now largelydiscarded in favor of the turbine. (references) |
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Synonym: Water WheelSynonym: waterwheel (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Instrument | Mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow, crowbar; handspike, gavelock, jemmy, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan; (lift); wheel; (rotation); inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut, heald, heddle, jenny, parbuckle, sprag, water wheel. |
Rotation | Carousel, merry-go-round; Ferris wheel; top, dreidel,teetotum; gyroscope; turntable, lazy suzan; screw, whirligig, rollingstone, water wheel, windmill; wheel, pulley wheel, roulette wheel, potter's wheel, pinwheel, gear; roller; flywheel; jack; caster; centrifuge, ultracentrifuge, bench centrifuge, refrigerated centrifuge, gas centrifuge, microfuge; drill, augur, oil rig; wagon wheel, wheel, tire, tyre. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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 | Rogue River - Water Wheel.Credit: Unknown. |  | Caption: Edison, Harvey Firestone Jr., R.J.H. Deloach, John Burroughs, Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone on Water Wheel at Old Evans Mill; Bolar Springs, VA; August 23, 1918; {14.475/119} (jpg). |
 | Ruins of the water wheel in Gallego Flour Mills, Richmond, Va.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Expressions using "water wheel": Horizontal water wheel ♦ improved water wheel. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
water wheel | 155 |
plan water wheel | 27 |
build water wheel | 17 |
mill water wheel | 11 |
free plan water wheel | 7 |
make water wheel | 5 |
generator water wheel | 4 |
lodge silver water wheel | 4 |
silver water wheel | 4 |
power water wheel | 4 |
design water wheel | 3 |
garden water wheel | 3 |
pattern water wheel | 3 |
picture water wheel | 3 |
pic water wheel | 3 |
motion perpetual water wheel | 2 |
building water wheel | 2 |
pelton water wheel | 2 |
water wheel fountain | 2 |
stone water wheel | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "water wheel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrotë hidraulike. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | водно колело (pedalo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vodní kolo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | wandhjul. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | waterwiel, waterrad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | paranneltu vesiratas (improved water wheel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | roue hydraulique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wasserrad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υδραυλικός τροχός, υδροκίνητοσ τροχόσ (overshot wheel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אנטליה (noria, sakia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vízikerék (paddle, paddle wheel, paddle-wheel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ruota idraulica. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 水車 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | すいしゃ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aterway eelwhay roda hidráulica. (various references) водяное колесо (water-wheel). (various references) vodenično kolo. (various references) rueda hidraulica. (various references) vattenhjul, skovelhjul (paddle wheel). (various references) dolap (cabal, cabinet, cheating, closet, collusion, cuddy, cupboard, dodge, dope, doubling, flimflam, frame up, game, hutch, imposture, intrigue, jiggery pokery, machination, machinations, maneuver, manoeuvre, ramp, repository, ruse, sell, trap, wardrobe, wile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: waterwheel. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-h-l-r-t-w-w" | |
-2 letters: ethereal. | |
-3 letters: haltere, leather, weather, wetware, wheeler, whereat, wreathe. | |
-4 letters: aether, elater, halter, healer, heater, heeler, hereat, lather, reheat, reheel, relate, thaler, thawer, wealth, welter, wether, whaler, wreath. | |
-5 letters: alert, alter, arete, artel, earth, eater, elate, ether, etwee, haler, hater, heart, hewer, laree, later, lathe, lethe, ratel, rathe, relet, rewet, taler, tawer, telae, there. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-h-l-r-t-w-w" | |
+1 letter: waterwheels. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 74 65 72 57 68 65 65 6C |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01010111 01101000 01100101 01100101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W a t e r   W h e e l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0061 0074 0065 0072 0057 0068 0065 0065 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)576786718425774717178 |
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