wheelhouse

Senso (Inglese)

  1. A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the water wheel of a mill.
  2. A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the water wheel of a mill.
  3. A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the water wheel of a mill.
  4. A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the water wheel of a mill.
  5. A prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland, characteristically including an outer wall within which a circle of stone piers (resembling the spokes of a wheel) form the basis for lintel arches supporting corbelled roofing with a hearth at the hub.
  6. (Canada, US, broadly) A pitch location which is favourable to the hitter.
  7. (Canada, US, figuratively) A person's area of authority or expertise.
  8. (Canada, US, figuratively) A set of skills necessitated by a situation.

sinonimi

steering room

operator’s compartment

roller box

operator cabin

Traduzioni

cabina del timoner

puente de gobierno

غرفة القيادة

gemide dümen köşkü

Frequenza

29k
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈʍiːlˌhaʊs/
Etimologia (Inglese)

From wheel + house. Sense 3 (“(baseball) a pitch location which is favourable to the hitter”) references the fact that a vessel is controlled from its wheelhouse (sense 1.2), and sense 4 (“a person’s area of authority or expertise”) is a figurative use of sense 3.

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