wheel

Betekenis (English)

Noun

1. (informal) A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
2. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
3. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
4. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
5. The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.
6. (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
7. (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
8. (slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace-2-3-4-5.
9. (slang) The best low hand in Lowball or High-low split poker: either ace-2-3-4-5 or 2-3-4-5-7, depending on the variant.
10. A wheelrim.
11. A round portion of cheese.
12. A Catherine wheel firework.
13. (obsolete) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
14. A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
15. A recurring or cyclical course of events.
16. (slang) A dollar.
17. (slang) A crown coin; a "cartwheel".
18. (informal) A bicycle or tricycle.
19. A manoeuvre in marching in which the marchers turn in a curving fashion to right or left so that the order of marchers does not change.

Verb

1. To roll along on wheels.
2. To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
3. To ride a bicycle or tricycle.
4. To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
5. To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
6. To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
7. To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.
8. To reload a track; to play a wheel-up.

Synonyms

circle

⭕

steering wheel

roll

disc

cycle

wheel around

bike

🚲

bicycle

🚲

ring

💍

trundle

disk

turn

whirl

wheel-shaped

roller

rotate

disc

discus

helm

tyre

veer

disk

roulette wheel

caster

swerve

pulley

on wheels

castor

take in

cheat

tire

revolve

rim

trolley

turn around

hoop

hover

rowel

wheeled

wheels

rack

leg

🦵

bilk

drive

cartwheel

pedal

foot

🦶

gear

⚙️

slew

slue

spin

spinning wheel

spiral

spiry

straight

swing about

swivel

take

throw

tilt

toy

tramp

travel

trick

turn away

turn back

turn in

turn off

twiddle

walk

🚶

weave

windlass

change course

corn soup

N

N

translate

one flower

serpentuate

Catherine-wheel

circumrotate

make a turn

swoop about

toothed gear wheel

wheel in

change state

swing around

running wheel

turn aside

automobile

backtrack

bend

block

bogie wheel

buzz

clay pigeon

cockpit

compass

🧭

convert

convolve

cross

decline

deflect

deviate

do

draw

driving wheel

go

go around

go forward

grindstone

ice hockey

🏒

idler gear

impeller

induce

influence

lead

loop

➿

mush

paving stone

persuade

propagate

puck

range

ratchet

reel

ride

roll in

rotation

rudder

run

rundle

runner

🏃

saucer

shift

skid

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ʍiːl/

Etimologie (English)

Inherited from Middle English: whel

Inherited from Old English: hwēol

Cognate with Fries: tsjil

Cognate with Nederlands: wiel

Cognate with Deens: hjul

Cognate with Tokharian B: kokale

Cognate with Antieke Grieks: κύκλος

Cognate with Avestan: 𐬗𐬀𐬑𐬭𐬀

Cognate with Sanskrit: चक्र

Cognate with Latyn: colō

Cognate with Tokharian A: -

Cognate with Tokharian B: käl-

Cognate with Antieke Grieks: πέλω

Cognate with Kerkslawies: коло

Cognate with Albanees: sjell

Cognate with Avestan: 𐬗𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌

Cognate with Sanskrit: चरति

In summary

From Middle English whel, from Old English hwēol, from Proto-West Germanic *hwehwl, from Proto-Germanic *hwehwlą, *hweulō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷlóm, *kʷékʷlos, *kʷékʷléh₂, reduplication of *kʷel- (“to turn”) and a suffix (literally "(the thing that) turns and turns." See also West Frisian tsjil, Dutch wiel, Danish hjul; also Tocharian B kokale (“cart, wagon”), Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “cycle, wheel”), Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬑𐬭𐬀 (caxra), Sanskrit चक्र (cakrá)); and Latin colō (“to till, cultivate”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B käl- (“to bear; bring”), Ancient Greek πέλω (pélō, “to come into existence, become”), Old Church Slavonic коло (kolo, “wheel”), Albanian sjell (“to bring, carry, turn around”), Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (caraⁱti, “it circulates”), Sanskrit चरति (cárati, “it moves, wanders”)). Doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, chukker, cycle, and cyclus.

Sinne

Eddy current brakes are not suitable for locking a wheel .