wheel

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NGSL Rank: 1982
wheel
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Meanings
noun
  • a circular object that revolves on an axle and is fixed below a vehicle or other object to enable it to move easily over the ground.
    E.g. a chair on wheels
  • a machine or structure having a wheel as its essential part.
  • a car.
    E.g. she's got wheels now
  • a thing resembling a wheel, in particular a cheese made in the form of a shallow disc.
    E.g. a small wheel of Brie
  • an instance of wheeling; a turn or rotation.
  • short for big wheel (sense 2).
  • a set of short lines, typically five in number and rhyming, concluding the stanza of a poem.
verb
  • push or pull (a vehicle with wheels).
    E.g. Luke was wheeling a barrow
  • (of a bird or aircraft) fly in a wide circle or curve.
    E.g. the birds wheeled and dived

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