Signification (Anglais)
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- (informal) A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
- A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
- A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
- A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
- The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.
- (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
- (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
- (slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace-2-3-4-5.
- (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.
- A wheelrim.
- A round portion of cheese.
- A Catherine wheel firework.
- (obsolete) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
- A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
- A recurring or cyclical course of events.
- (slang) A dollar.
- (slang) A crown coin; a "cartwheel".
- (informal) A bicycle or tricycle.
- 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.
Concepts
Synonymes
wheel-shaped
swing about
turn off
change course
corn soup
one flower
serpentuate
Catherine-wheel
make a turn
swoop about
toothed gear wheel
wheel in
change state
swing around
running wheel
turn aside
bogie wheel
go forward
idler gear
rundle
Fréquence
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ʍiːl/
Étymologie (Anglais)
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.
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