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Definition: Wheel |
WheelNoun1. 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. 3. A circular helm to control the rudder of a vessel. 4. Game equipment consisting of a rotating wheel with slots that is used for gambling; players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in. 5. An instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims. 6. A cycle that has two wheels; moved by foot pedals. Verb1. Change directions as of 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". 4. Ride a bicycle. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wheel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Computing | Wheel n. [from 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, sense 1.) The traditional name of security group zero in BSD (to which the major system-internal users like root belong) is `wheel'. Some vendors have expanded on this usage, modifying Unix so that only members of group `wheel' can go root. Source: Jargon File. |
Industry | FG. Source: European Union. (references) |
Bible | Wheel (Heb. galgal; rendered "wheel" in Ps. 83:13, and "a rolling thing" in Isa. 17:13; R.V. in both, "whirling dust"). This word has been supposed to mean the wild artichoke, which assumes the form of a globe, and in autumn breaks away from its roots, and is rolled about by the wind in some places in great numbers. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Industry | A usually horizontal disk revolving on a vertical spindle and carrying the clay in the operation of throwing. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A stellate figure resulting from a cone-cut veneer which is used for covering circular table tops. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Wheel Emblematical of St. Catharine, who was put to death on a wheel somewhat resembling a chaff-cutter. St. Donatus bears a wheel set round with lights. St. Euphemia and St. Willigis both carry wheels. St. Quintin is sometimes represented with a broken wheel at his feet. To put one's spoke into another man's wheel. (See under Spoke.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | A rotating set of vanes in a pump, etc. , designed to impel rotation of a mass of fluid; on the peripheral speed of the vane tips depends the head produced and the working pressure of a pump ; the rotating part of a turbomachine; fan, compressor or pump. Source: European Union. (references) |
| That of two gears(gear wheels)running together which has the larger number of teeth. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A circular piece, shaped as a frame or as a solid disk, which is arranged to turn on an axis, as in vehicles, machinery, etc. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A wheel is a disc- or torus-shaped mechanical device, the fundamental operation of which is to transfer linear motion (going along) into rotary motion (going around). It is one of the simple machines.
Mechanics
Wheels can be fastened on a wheel axle, which when fitted to a third object such as a vehicle body, will efficiently impart the energy of the converted linear motion to that body. Since the strongest motions available in nature to pre-industrial humans (exertion of their own muscle, exertion of animal muscle, flowing water, etc.) were linear and horizontal, the wheel/axle/object combination enabled them to leverage these sources in any direction by tilting the wheel (vertically in a horse driven mill wheel, for instance). Expended linear force, instead of being pushed ahead and scattered in unlimited forward space, was now conserved along the compact 360 degree surface of the turning wheel. Compared to a vehicle without wheels, such as a travois, barrow or sled, this compaction of momentum, along with a related reduction in surface friction, allows wheeled vehicles to travel farther even while less push or pull force is applied.
Since a wheel is a rigid object, it will only be non-rotating when all the torques on it are balanced. Since forces produce larger torques when they are closer to the axis, a wheel can be used to transform between large and small forces applied by friction with belts or other wheels. The combination of the wheel with the wedge produced the toothed gear, which was fundamental to the advent of industrial class complex machines. Other variations on wheels produce the pulley and the windlass.
With its cycling/compaction of momentum, reduction of friction and resulting lower amount of work necessary to move items, the wheel is essential in transport. On many wheeled vehicles (for instance, automobiles and motorcycles), a rigid wheel does not come directly in contact with the surface, but instead serves as a mounting point for a flexible tire, usually filled with compressed air. For rail vehicles this is not the case. A development of wheels to allow them to travel through rough terrain is the caterpillar track found on some tractors and armored vehicles. Land vehicles without wheels are the hovercraft, the electro-magnetic monorail, and relying on surface conditions the sled, the snowboard and skis.
History of the Wheel
Most authorities credit the ancient Mesopotamians (Sumerians) with the invention of the wheel at about 4000 BC, with an independent invention in China at around 2800 BC. The Incans and certain other western hemisphere cultures seem to have approached the concept, as wheel-like worked stones have been found on objects identified as children's toys dating to about 1500 BC. The wheel was unknown in Sub-saharan Africa and Australia until relatively recent contacts with Eurasians. While the 4000 BC date for the invention of the wheel may seem ancient, it is curious to note in this context that most anthropologists date the emergence of fully modern human beings (Homo sapiens) to at least 100,000 BC. That people with capacities fully equal to our own walked the earth for 96,000 years before conceiving of the wheel may be surprising at first blush, but it becomes less so when one realizes that populations were extremely small through most of this time and that the wheel, which requires an axle and socket to be truly useful, is not so simple a device as it may seem. Perhaps nothing testifies more to how non-obvious the wheel is than the fact that biological evolution itself, at least on the macro level, did not "invent" it (unless one counts certain species of lizards and spiders that sometimes curl themselves into a rough ball when attacked, attempting to roll to safety). On a micro scale, flagellate bacteria invented the wheel billions of years ago.
In July 2001, the wheel was the object of an innovative, but non-inventive, patent as a "circular transportation facilitation device" [1], [1]. The patent was obtained by John Keogh, a lawyer from Melbourne, Australia, with the declared intention of demonstrating the unfairness and inaccuracy of the modern patenting system.
See also
Reverse rotation effect.
External links
In Buddhism, the wheel is a central conceptual metaphor. Life is said to be an endless cycle of births and rebirths, which one can only escape by achieving enlightenment. Accordingly the wheel to a Buddhist has a meaning akin to that of a cross for a Christian or a crescent for a Muslim, although it is not a symbol of a deity as such. The mandala is a common representation which is based on the wheel's image. The wheel is a form of torture.
- http://www.bms.ed.ac.uk/research/others/smaciver/Cell%20biol.topics/Cell_Locomotion.htm
- http://www.bmb.leeds.ac.uk/mbiology/ug/ugteach/icu8/introduction/bacteria.html#appendages
- http://www.joyofvb.com/Short%20Essays/JVBEssay_Bacteria%20On%20The%20Move.htm
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wheel."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A wheel or bicycle is the poker hand 5-4-3-2-A. In all casino games and nearly all home games, this plays as a five-high straight. Some home games may not recognize this as a valid straight, but this exception to common practice is not recommended.This is also the best possible hand in Ace-to-five low poker.
The origin of the name is unknown, but it is believed to have something to do with the popular bicycle-patterned playing cards issued by the United States Playing Card Company.
- See also : Poker
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wheel (poker)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| whl | English | Wheel | N/A |
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Synonyms: WheelSynonyms: rack (n), roulette wheel (n), steering wheel (n), bicycle (v), bike (v), cycle (v), pedal (v), roll (v), wheel around (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Circuition | Verb: turn, bend, wheel; go about, put about; heel; go round to the right about, turn round to the right about; turn on one's heel; make a circle, make a complete circle, describe a circle, describe a complete circle; go through x, go through x, pass through x, pass through x. |
Circularity | Circle, circlet, ring, areola, hoop, roundlet, annulus, annulet, bracelet, armlet; ringlet; eye, loop, wheel; cycle, orb, orbit, rundle, zone, belt, cordon, band; contrate wheel, crown wheel; hub; nave; sash, girdle, cestus, cincture, baldric, fillet, fascia, wreath, garland; crown, corona, coronet, chaplet, snood, necklace, collar; noose, lasso, lassoo. |
Convexity | Pimple, zit; wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain; boil; (disease); airbubble, blob, papule, verruca. |
Deviation | Stray, straggle; sidle; diverge; tralineate; digress, wander; wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy. |
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. |
Regression | Verb: recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire; retrograde, retrocede; back out; back down; balk; crawfish, crawl; withdraw; rebound; go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern; backwater, put about; backtrack, take the back track; veer round; double, wheel, countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy. |
Rotation | Verb: rotate; roll along; revolve, spin; turn round; circumvolve; circulate; gyre, gyrate, wheel, whirl, pirouette; twirl, trundle, troll, bowl. |
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. | |
Scourge | Triangle, wooden horse, iron maiden, thumbscrew, boot, rack, wheel, iron heel; chinese water torture. |
Vehicle | Truck, tram; cariole, carriole; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen, palanquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel; hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle, bike, two-wheeler; tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | You know, the elderly, although slow, and dangerous behind the wheel, can serve a purpose (Dumb and Dumber; writing credit: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, and Bennett Yellin.) Harry, do you realize it has, in fact, been 10 years since you've been behind the wheel of one of these things (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël) Seats and a steering wheel. (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) Hey y'all see a little Asian dude about this height with a steering wheel on his arm (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf) Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll share my luck with your roulette wheel. (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison) | |
Lyrics | You wheel and deal (Wall Street Shuffle; performing artist: 10CC) 3 wheel ride with the tire in da middle (Still Fly; performing artist: Big Tymers) Hit the gas, take the wheel (Everyday; performing artist: Bon Jovi) I'm as helpless as a ship without a wheel (Lost Without Your Love; performing artist: BREAD) Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good (MY HOMETOWN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) | |
Clever | The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Wheel (1973) Samsara: The Wheel of Life and Death (1972) Wheel of Ashes (1968) Bartholomew Versus the Wheel (1964) Donald and the Wheel (1961) | |
Song Titles | Spinning Wheel (performing artist: Sweat and Tears Blood) Potter's Wheel (performing artist: Freyda & Accoustic Attitude) | |
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 | X-2 with Collapsed Nose Wheel. Credit: NASA. |  | Power source for hoisting steel Jack up truck and use "fifth wheel" This could be dangerous - at least one leg broken by getting wrapped up Safety modifications made to system after individual severely injured Triangulation party of Paul A. Smith. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Inside the Clean Air Facility. Normal incidence pyrheliometer with filter wheel. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Recording solar radiation using a normal incidence pyrheliometer with a filter wheel. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Graphic of the TIROS wheel satellite. Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | Crossing of the cultures - Roman Catholic shrine on Yapese money wheel. Credit: Small World. |
 | Wheel line sprinkler irrigation Wallowa, Oregon. Credit: Gary Wilson. |  | Janice Richardson (left), NRCS Soil Conservation Technician, and Amber Bilak, Earth Team Volunteer assess irrigation efficiency on a side wheel roll sprinkler in an alfalfa field near Santaquin, UT. [Slide 97CS3148]. Credit: Ron Nichols. |
 | New orange trees are straightened, staked, and pruned by workers riding only inches above the ground pulled by a slowly moving tractor. The tractor is driven not from the conventional drivers's seat perched high over the rear wheels, but by one of the workers below, using an extra steering wheel and control. Credit: USDA. |  | Large disc pulled by 4 wheel drive tractor near Seminole, Texas. Credit: USDA. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Rail wheel" by Peter Rödström Commentary: "A wheel on a rail raod carriage, taken in the Port of Göteborg, september 2003. If you use it in print please let me know how and where!!." | "Rusty wheel" by Kelli Commentary: "The wheel of my dad's old, broken-down lawn mower cart." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | Roulette wheel spinning and slowing. |
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Aesop | Put your shoulder to the wheel. |
Burton | As dogs in a wheel, or squirrels in a cage, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. |
Confucius | The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, ''I shall today be uppermost.'' |
Francis Bacon | It was prettily devised of Aesop, ''The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! '' |
Henry Wheeler Shaw | The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. |
Herodotus | Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. |
Hervert Von Fritzlar | The cart has no place where a fifth wheel could be used. |
Josephine Pollard | The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round. |
Mario Andretti | No team manager will tell you this; but they all want to see you come walking back into the pits sometimes, carrying the steering wheel. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Nay more, they are reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of history. (reference) |
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | The end of one wheel answers to the side of the opposite wheel |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The wheel in fact was badly damaged |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Tom grabbed the wheel tight and he thrust the brake down to the floor |
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Health | By the time they are in their teens, many are confined to a wheel chair. (references) | |
Voluntary physical activity in mice, such as running in an exercise wheel, increases the number of new neurons in the hippocampus. (references) | ||
Other glia enclose the spinal cord like the rim and spokes of a wheel, providing compartments for the ascending and descending nerve fiber tracts. (references) | ||
Business | The best prospect for foreign crane manufacturers is for wheel type cranes in Korea. (references) | |
The use of aluminum continues to expand beyond engine and wheel applications to more structural frame, suspension and body panel applications. (references) | ||
Statistical data in this report applies to wheel type cranes, crawler-type cranes, and tower cranes that the Korean industry classifies as construction crane equipment. (references) | ||
Economic History | Kazakhstan | There is no local production of grain harvesting combines, wheel tractors, sprayers, or grain cleaning equipment. (references) |
Australia | Best sales prospects are considered to be wheel loaders, articulated four-wheel drive front-end loaders, hydraulic excavators, and backhoe loaders. (references) | |
Greece | Several small to medium-sized factories supply hospitals with furniture, inexpensive manual wheel chairs, bandages, gauze, and other rudimentary hospital supplies. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Dennis Miller | With the wheel came envy, a lowering of our self-esteem, and greed. |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | The emerging spirit of confidence is precisely what we hoped to achieve when we went to work a generation ago to put our shoulder to the wheel and try to help rebuild Europe. |
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| "Wheel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.23% of the time. "Wheel" is used about 2,597 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.23% | 2,577 | 3,543 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.42% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.35% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,597 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "wheel". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Galal | N/A | Biblical | A wheel |
| Galilee | N/A | Biblical | Wheel |
| Geliloth | N/A | Biblical | Wheel |
| Gilalai | N/A | Biblical | A wheel |
| Gilgal | N/A | Biblical | Wheel |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "wheel": a big wheel ♦ A wheel within a wheel ♦ Archibald wheel ♦ artillery wheel ♦ at the wheel ♦ back wheel ♦ balance wheel ♦ be at the wheel ♦ bevel wheel ♦ bicycle wheel ♦ big wheel ♦ blue flag at starboard side of the wheel house ♦ brake wheel ♦ break a butterfly on wheel ♦ break a fly on the wheel ♦ break on the wheel ♦ break the fly on the wheel ♦ breast wheel ♦ Brush wheel ♦ buff wheel ♦ buffing wheel ♦ Bull wheel ♦ Cam wheel ♦ car wheel ♦ Cardiac wheel ♦ cart wheel ♦ Catharine wheel ♦ catherine wheel ♦ chain wheel ♦ Change wheel ♦ color wheel ♦ Contrate wheel ♦ control wheel ♦ Core wheel ♦ Crank wheel ♦ cross wheel mechanism ♦ crown wheel ♦ Current wheel ♦ daisy print wheel ♦ daisy wheel ♦ daisy wheel printer ♦ dawson wheel ♦ design wheel load ♦ diamond wheel ♦ dog wheel ♦ drive wheel ♦ driven wheel ♦ Driving wheel ♦ Emery wheel ♦ Epicycloidal wheel ♦ equivalent isolated single wheel load ♦ Escape wheel ♦ Face wheel ♦ Fan wheel ♦ Feathering wheel ♦ Feed wheel ♦ ferris wheel ♦ fifth wheel ♦ Flash wheel ♦ Flutter wheel ♦ Fly wheel ♦ four wheel ♦ free wheel ♦ Friction wheel ♦ front wheel ♦ front wheel drive ♦ Fudge wheel ♦ Gauge wheel ♦ gear wheel ♦ Geneva wheel ♦ Gin wheel ♦ Girdle wheel ♦ grinding wheel ♦ Ground wheel ♦ Heart wheel ♦ hind wheel ♦ Horizontal water wheel ♦ idle wheel ♦ idler wheel ♦ improved water wheel ♦ injection wheel ♦ keep one's shoulder to the wheel ♦ lantern wheel ♦ Lapidary's wheel ♦ Leading wheel ♦ lottery wheel ♦ man at the wheel ♦ Mangle wheel ♦ match wheel ♦ Measuring wheel ♦ mill wheel ♦ monkey wheel ♦ mortise wheel ♦ mutilated wheel ♦ nave of a wheel ♦ nose wheel ♦ nose wheel door ♦ nosegear wheel ♦ notched wheel ♦ or wheel ♦ outrigger wheel. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "wheel": wheel-arch, wheel-arches, wheel-arrangements, wheel-back, wheel-barrow, wheel-barrows, wheel-base, wheel-based, wheel-buckler, wheel-cages, wheel-carriages, wheel-chair, wheel-chaired, wheel-clamp, wheel-clamped, wheel-clamping, wheel-cutting, wheel-deal, wheel-drive, wheel-driven, wheel-drops, wheel-horse team, wheel-house, wheel-less, wheel-lock, wheel-locks, wheel-made, wheel-marks, wheel-nuts, wheel-pen, wheel-pit, wheel-platform, wheel-power, wheel-rims, wheel-ruts, wheel-screeching, wheel-sets, wheel-shape, wheel-shaped, wheel-spin, wheel-spun, wheel-throwing, wheel-thrown, wheel-to-wheel, wheel-tracks, wheel-turned, wheel-twirling, wheel-type, wheel-worked, Wheel-worn, wheel-wrestling, wheel-wright, wheel-wrights. | |
Ending with "wheel": front-wheel, mill-wheel, nose-wheel, rear-wheel, six-wheel, spinning-wheel, steering-wheel, tail-wheel, three-wheel, two-wheel, water-wheel. | |
Containing "wheel": four-wheel-drive, front-wheel-drive. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
wheel of fortune | 8,519 | wheel of fortune online | 320 |
wheel chair | 2,700 | wheel balancer | 283 |
color wheel | 2,443 | wheel horse | 270 |
wheel | 1,317 | all wheel drive | 269 |
wagon wheel | 1,008 | steering wheel | 261 |
the wheel of time | 947 | wheel adapter | 255 |
fortune.com wheel | 867 | motorized wheel chair | 247 |
ferris wheel | 824 | medicine wheel | 247 |
electric wheel chair | 576 | play wheel of fortune | 239 |
wheel of fortune game | 515 | english wheel | 232 |
4 wheel part | 506 | wheel spacers | 229 |
5th wheel | 473 | play wheel of fortune online | 226 |
wheel cover | 454 | the wheel of life | 200 |
wheel chair lift | 442 | wheel alignment | 183 |
tire and wheel package | 426 | wheel bearing | 180 |
wheel chair ramp | 422 | rent wheel | 178 |
steering wheel cover | 418 | four wheel part | 177 |
power wheel chair | 330 | wheel chair accessory | 166 |
fifth wheel | 327 | big wheel | 166 |
national tire and wheel | 324 | roulette wheel | 165 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "wheel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | wiel. (various references) | |
Albanian | vërtitem (circle, dance, flitter, flutter, gyrate, loiter, mill, mooch, move, move about, Potter, revolve, roll, turn, turn round, whirl round), vë rrota, timon (beam, handlebar, helm rudder, pole, rudder, shaft, steering wheel, turnstile), shtyj karron, rrotullohem (bowl along, circle, mill, revolve, slew, turn, turn about, turn over), rrotullim (circumgyration, cycle, gyration, revolution, rotation, spin, torsion, traverse, turn, turning, twirl, whirlabout), rrotë e torturës, rrotë (boob, dope, moron, rack, rag-wheel, spool), mekanizëm (action, clockwork, device, gear, machine, machinery, mechanism, work), kthesë (bend, bow, circumvolution, crook, curve, elbow, flexure, jar, offset, oxbow, sinuosity, slew, switch, turn, turn round, turnabout, twist, volte-face, wheeling, wind), kthehem (backtrack, bend, come back, flounce, get back, go back, lurch, move back, redound, rejoin, return, set, slew, start back, take turns, turn aside, turn back, turn over, turn round, veer), karusel (carrousel, go round, merry go round, whirligig), eci me biçikletë. (various references) | |
Arabic | نقل بعربة (drive), نجز على نحو دائري, قوة موجهة (vector), عجلة دولاب, عجلة (expedition, haste, hurry, promptitude, quickness, urgency), جعله ينعطف, جعله يدور, إنعطف (deflect, detour, turn, turn around, turn the corner, wind), إندفع في دراجة, دفع (actuate, anticipate, bleed, boost, carry, crowd, dig, disburse, drive, eject, encourage, flog, galvanize, give, impulse, instigate, jog, jostle, motivate, nuzzle, pay, pay down, payment, plank, press, prompt, propel, propulsion, push, remit, render up, repulsion, roll, rouse, shove, spur, sweep, thrust, thrusting, waft), دولاب النار ضرب من الألعاب, دولاب (gear, trundle), دوران (circuit, circumvolution, facing, gyration, revolution, rotation, roundness, turning, turnover, twirl, whirl), دار (circle, come round, dwelling, go, gyrate, hand round, home, house, operate, orb, orbit, pan, parlor, parlour, residence, revolve, rotate, round, screw, spin, spun, swing, swing round, swirl, swivel, turn over, twiddle, twirl, up and about, whirl, wind). (various references) | |
Basque | gurpil. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | грънчарско колело (lathe, throw), превозвам (bear, convey, freight, put across, ship, transport), прекарвам (convey, have, lead, pass, pass away, pilot, reside, run, spend, spin out, take over), пътувам с кола, огнено колело (catherine wheel), вия се (coil, creep, curl, entwine, ramp, run, serpentine, twist, weave, wind, wound, wreathe, writhe), влиятелна личност, важна личност (grand seigneur, mogul, nibs, shot), велосипед (bicycle, bike, cycle, pushbicycle), волан (flounce, frill, furbelow, ruffle, skirt, steering wheel), поставям на колела, въртя се (circle, fidget, flutter, hover, pivot, reel, shuffle, swirl, whirl), рефрен (refrain), карам (auto, cart, cause, drive, get along, have, impel, keep, lead, make, move, oar, occasion, pilot, propel, render, roll along, run, sail, serve, set, set off, start, urge on), карам велосипед (bike, pedal), карам с голяма скорост, колело (cart wheel, hoop), колело за изтезания, кормило (helm, rudder, steering wheel), тегля (drag, draw, haul, have a rough time, lug, pluck, pull, rouse, scale, strike, weigh out), фойерверк (fireworks, pinwheel, sparkler), чекрък (spinning wheel, wheel and axle, winch), щурвал (helm, steering wheel), въртене (circuit, circumgyration, circumvolution, gyration, revolution, rotation, running, spin, swirl, turn, turning, twiddle, wag, whirl, wiggle, wriggle). (various references) | |
Chinese | 轮子 (wheels), 轂 (hub of wheel), 輪子 , 輪 (gear, rotate, turn), 軱 . (various references) | |
Czech | kolo (bicycle, bike, bout, coil, cycle, hoop, round). (various references) | |
Danish | hjul (cart wheel shape, cheese loaf, drum cheese, gear, gear wheel, loaf cheese, sprocket). (various references) | |
Dutch | wiel (gear wheel, pulley), rad (impeller, rad, rotor). (various references) | |
Esperanto | rado. (various references) | |
Faeroese | hjól. (various references) | |
Farsi | چرخیدن (Pivot, Reel, Revolve, Rollup, Rotate, Swing, Trill, Troll, Trundle, Turquoise, Twirl, Whirl, Windmill, Wry), چرخش (Evolution, Gyration, Revolution, Roll, Swirl, Troll, Tumble, Turquoise, Twirl, Whirl, Wrench, Wrest), چرخ (Axle, Cart, Cycle, Loop, Rhomb, Turquoise), گرداندن (Inflect, Manage, Operate, Operation, Turquoise, Wrest), رل ماشین , دور (Aloof, Around, Away, Circuit, Distant, Meander, Orbit, Race, Remote, Yonder). (various references) | |
Finnish | pyörä (bicycle). (various references) | |
French | roue (gear wheel). (various references) | |
Frisian | tsjil. (various references) | |
German | Rad (bicycle, bike, cartwheel, Castor, cycle, gearwheel), Steuerrad (control wheel, joystick, steering wheel, steering-wheel). (various references) | |
Greek | ρόδα (Catherine wheel, roller, tyre), τροχός (bobbin, gear). (various references) | |
Hebrew | גלגל (cycle, helm, hoop, orb, pulley, sphere). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kormány (administration, authorities, cabinet, caretaker government, government), kerék (cart-wheel, cobs, tyre). (various references) | |
Icelandic | hjól. (various references) | |
Indonesian | roda, gelinding. (various references) | |
Irish | roth. (various references) | |
Italian | ruota (castor, gear, gear wheel, runner). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 車輪 , 車 (car, vehicle), 環 (circle, hoop, link, loop, ring), ホーミング魚雷 (family doctor, family physician, get home, goal reached, HA, hall, Hands up!, HI, hold, Hold up!, holding, hole, hole in one, hole out, Holmes, home, home automation, home banking, home bar, home comedy, home cooking, home drama, home economics, home electronics, home freezing, home game, home ground, home helper, home improvement, home page, home plate, home reservation, home run, home run derby, home security system, home shopping, home team, home terminal, home trade, home-directory, homemade, homemaker, homeroom, homesick, homespun, homestay, homestretch, homework, homing torpedo, horn, house dress, party, plain dress for everyday wear, platform, service that goes to clients' homes to give beauty treatments, soap opera, stealing home in baseball, wheel cap, whip, whipped cream, whistle). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ホイール , しゃりん, くるま (car, jinrikisha, rickshaw, vehicle), わ (circle, counter for birds, counter for bundles, counter for rabbits, harmony, hoop, link, loop, peace, ring, sum). (various references) | |
Korean | 기구 (Apparatus, Apparatuses, Appliance, framework, wheels). (various references) | |
Malay | roda. (various references) | |
Manx | stiur (rudder), queeyllaghey (bind, bowl, bowl as hoop, roll, rotate, whirl), queeyl. (various references) | |
Maya | haxab (spinning wheel). (various references) | |
Norwegian | hjul. (various references) | |
Occitan | ròda. (various references) | |
Papiamen | wil, rim. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eelwhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | roda (circle, coterie, impeller, round, shout). (various references) | |
Romanian | roatã (circle, rack, ring, spinning wheel), învârti (brandish, dance, grind, manipulate, revolve, roll, rotate, spin, turn, turn round, twiddle, twirl, twist, whirl, wield, wind), învârtire (spin, swirl, turn, whirl, whirling), bicicletã (bicycle, bike, cycle, machine, push bicycle, racer, roadster), descrie un cerc, face sã se roteascã, merge cu bicicletã (cycle, pedal), mişcare circularã (circuit, circulation), ocol (bounds, compass, courtyard, detour, enclosure, grounds, round, roundabout, surrounding, surroundings, tour, turn), împinge pe roţi, roata cârmei, volan (flounce, flyer, frill, furbelow), rotaţie (revolution, roll, rotation, spin, spire, turn), roti (revolve, roll, rotate, spin, swing, turn, whirl), rotiţã (caster, Castor, roller), rotilã, rotire (gyration, spin, sweep, turn, whirl), se mişca pe roţi, se rãsuci (convolve, curl, curl up, spin, swirl, wind, wriggle, wriggle oneself), timonã, ocolire (dodge, elusion, evasion, round, rounding). (various references) | |
Romany | kololàs. (various references) | |
Russian | колесо. (various references) | |
Scottish | roth (a wheel), roithlean (a wheel), cuibhle, cuibhill (a wheel), cuibhill (va. wheel). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | volan (flounce, steering wheel), velika zverka (big wheel, bigwig), valjati (be good, fuller, laminate, ought, roll), točak (cart wheel, cartwheel), obrtati se (pivot, rotate, whirl), kotur (coil, poppet, pulley, roll, sheave), kotrljati (roll, trundle), kolo, gurati (hustle, jostle, push, shove, thrust). (various references) | |
Spanish | rueda (roller, runner). (various references) | |
Sranan | wiri. (various references) | |
Swedish | hjul (caster, Castor), ring (circle, coil, collar, collet, halo, ring, tyre, wreath), ratt (handwheel, knob, steering wheel). (various references) | |
Tagalog | gulóng. (various references) | |
Thai | ล้มเหลว (asleep at the wheel, cave in, fail, flop, fold up). (various references) | |
Turkish | dişli (cogged, cogwheel, dentate, denticulated, dontic, formidable, gear, gearwheel, hustling, indented, jagged, notched, threaded, toothed), çark etme, çark etmek (circle, pivot, swing, turn), araba (auto, autocar, automobile, car, carriage, cart, gharry, motor, motorcar), araba ile götürmek, bisiklet (bicycle, bike, cycle, push bicycle, push-bike, roadster, Velocipede), döndürmek (deflect, return, reverse, revolve, roll, rotate, round off, slew, slew round, slue, slue round, spin, swerve, swing, turn, turn aside, turn inside out, turn over, turn round, twiddle, twirl, veer, veer round, whip, whirl, wind, wind up), dönme (apostasy, circumvolution, conversion, convert, cycle, deflection, deflexion, facing, gyration, loop, proselyte, renegade, rotation, spin, swing, torsion, tumble, turn, turning, twist, veer, whirligig, winding), çark (barrel, cogwheel, flywheel, handwheel, rotor, runner), dümen (cabal, cheat, dope, helm, rig, rudder, steering wheel, trick), yuvarlanmak (bowl, roll, roll over, roll up, shoot, trickle, trundle, trundle along, tumble, wallow, welter), direksiyon (draglink, steering wheel), el arabasıyla götürmek, işkence çarkı, pedal çevirmek (cycle, pedal), teker, tekerlek (roller, tire, truckle, trundle, tyre), tekerlekli birşeyi itmek, dönmek (abjure, apostatize, bear, budge from, call back, change one's mind, chop about, chop round, circle, come back, come home, deflect, face, front, get round, go back, go back on, gyrate, pivot, put about, recall, recant, reel, regress, renege, repass, return, return to, revert, revolve, rotate, round, screw, sheer from, slew, slue, spin, swallow, swerve, swim, swing, switch, switch to, tumble, turn, turn back, turn one's coat, turn over, turn round, turn up, twist, veer, veer round, wheel about, wheel around, whirl). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tigirlemek (drive, roll), tigir (bobbin, spool), sьяpent (handle bar, rudder), зarh (spinning wheel). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | коліща, обертати (revolve, rotate, slew, swivel, turn), обертатися (circle, circuit, encircle, encompass, pivot, revolve, rotate, slew, turn, turn about, turn around, turn round, whirl), важна персона (bigwig, pumpkin, somebody), велосипед (bicycle, cycle, push-bike), вертіти (jib, roll, swing, twiddle, twirl, whirl), гончарний круг, прядка (distaff, spinning wheel), коло (anear, anigh, aside, by, circle, circuit, circumference, circus, near, on, orb, ring, round, verge), рульове колесо, котити (bowl, roll, trundle), котитися (roll, trundle), кружляння (spin, whirling), кружляти (circle, dance, go around, go round, mill about, mill around, waltz, whirl), шестірня (cog-wheel, gear, gear wheel), штурвал, фортуна (fortune), колесо. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trôi chy, tay lái sự quay tròn, sự xoay (slue), bọn quyền cao chức trọng chạy. (various references) | |
Welsh | troell (spinning-wheel), rhod (ecliptic, orb), powlio (roll, trundle), olwyno (cycle), olwyn. (various references) | |
Zulu | isondo, ilisondo. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | umbin. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | kyklos, trokhos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | rota. (various references) |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | trendle. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 19 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | TouV phceiV authV ekteinei epi ta sumferonta taV de ceiraV authV ereidei eiV atrakton |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ioth manum suam misit ad fortia et digiti eius adprehenderunt fusum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Joth. Hir hond she putte to stronge thingus, and hir fingris cayten the spindle. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | She puts her hands to the cloth-working rod, and her fingers take the wheel. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 19 |
| Cebuano | Ginabutang niya ang iyang mga kamot sa bilikan, Ug ang mga kamot nagapugong sa kalinyasan. |
| Chinese | 他 手 拿 撚 線 竿 ． 手 把 紡 線 車 ． |
| Croatian | Rukama se maša preslice i prstima drži vreteno. |
| Danish | Hun rækker sine Hænder mod Rokken, Fingrene tager om Tenen. |
| Dutch | Jod. Zij steekt haar handen uit naar de spil, en haar handpalmen vatten den spinrok. |
| Finnish | Hän ojentaa kätensä kehrävarteen ja käyttelee värttinää kämmenissään. |
| French | Elle met la main à la quenouille, Et ses doigts tiennent le fuseau. |
| German | Sie streckt ihre Hand nach dem Rocken, und ihre Finger fassen die Spindel. |
| Haitian Creole | Li file koton, li koud rad li. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Benang dipintalnya dan kain ditenunnya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka dicapainya dengan tangannya kepada kisi-kisi dan tapak tangannyapun ada memegang rahat. |
| Italian | Stende la sua mano alla conocchia e mena il fuso con le dita. |
| Maori | Ka totoro atu ona ringa ki te mea takai miro, ka pupuri ona ringa ki te pou muka. |
| Norwegian | Hun legger sine hender på rokken, og hennes fingrer tar fatt på tenen. |
| Portuguese | Iode. Estende as mãos ao fuso, e as suas mãos pegam na roca. |
| Rumanian | Ea pune mkna pe furcq, wi degetele ei yin fusul. |
| Russian | рТПФСЗЙЧБЕФ ТХЛЙ УЧПЙ Л РТСМЛЕ, Й РЕТУФЩ ЕЕ ВЕТХФУС ЪБ ЧЕТЕФЕОП. |
| Spanish | Su mano aplica a la rueca, y sus dedos toman el huso. |
| Swedish | Till spinnrocken griper hon med sina händer, och hennes fingrar fatta om sländan. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wheel": wheelbarrow, wheelbarrowed, wheelbarrowing, wheelbarrows, wheelbase, wheelbases, wheelchair, wheelchairs, wheeled, wheeler, wheelers, wheelhorse, wheelhorses, wheelhouse, wheelhouses, wheelie, wheelies, wheeling, wheelings, wheelless, wheelman, wheelmen, wheels, wheelsman, wheelsmen, wheelwork, wheelworks, wheelwright, wheelwrights. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "wheel": cartwheel, chainwheel, cogwheel, enwheel, flywheel, freewheel, gearwheel, handwheel, nosewheel, pinwheel, thumbwheel, waterwheel. (additional references) | |
Words containing "wheel": cartwheeled, cartwheeler, cartwheelers, cartwheeling, cartwheels, chainwheels, cogwheels, enwheeled, enwheeling, enwheels, flywheels, freewheeled, freewheeler, freewheelers, freewheeling, freewheelingly, freewheels, gearwheels, handwheels, nosewheels, pinwheeled, pinwheeling, pinwheels, thumbwheels, waterwheels. (additional references) | |
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"Wheel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gheel, hwel, rheel, theel, wehele, whail, whe, Whec, whee, wheed, wheeg, wheen, wheep, wheet, whei, wheil, wheld, whele, whelg, whell, wheve, whewel, wheyey, whieh, whoal, whoall, Whyld, wreel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wheel" (pronounced wē"l or hwē"l) |
| 3 | w ē" l | squeal. |
| 2 | -ē" l | abele, anneal, appeal, conceal, congeal, corneal, creel, deal, diel, eel, feel, genteel, heal, heel, ideal, spiel, steal, steel, surreal, teal, teel, keel, kneel, Leal, meal, ordeal, peal, Peel, puerile, real, reel, repeal, reseal, reveal, riel, seal, Seel, Shiel, unreal, unseal, veal, zeal. |
| 3 | -w ē" l | squeal. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-l-w" | |
-1 letter: heel, weel, whee. | |
-2 letters: eel, ewe, hew, lee, wee. | |
-3 letters: eh, el, he, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-l-w" | |
+1 letter: lechwe, wheels. | |
+2 letters: enwheel, hewable, lechwes, welched, welcher, welches, welshed, welsher, welshes, wheedle, wheeled, wheeler, wheelie, wheeple, whelmed, whelped. | |
+3 letters: behowled, chewable, clerihew, cogwheel, enwheels, erewhile, eschewal, flywheel, pinwheel, thewless, welchers, wellhead, wellhole, welshers, whalemen, wheedled, wheedler, wheedles, wheelers, wheelies, wheeling, wheelman, wheelmen, wheepled, wheeples, wheezily, whelkier, wheylike. | |
+4 letters: cartwheel, clerihews, cogwheels, elsewhere, enwheeled, erewhiles, erstwhile, eschewals, flywheels, freewheel, gearwheel, handwheel, hawsehole, meanwhile, nosewheel, overwhelm, pewholder, pinwheels, shrewlike, swellhead, wealthier, weatherly, weighable, wellheads, wellholes, whalebone, whalelike, wheedlers, wheedling, wheelbase, wheelings, wheelless, wheelsman, wheelsmen, wheelwork, wheepling, whelkiest, wholeness, wholesale, wholesome. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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