wheel
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Definition
noun (English)
1. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.informalwith-definite-article
2. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.Examples: "I hear the noise about thy keel; I hear the bell struck in the night: I see the cabin-window bright; I see the sailor at the wheel."
3. (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.slang
4. (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.datedslang
5. (poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace-2-3-4-5.slang
6. (poker 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.slang
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To roll along on wheels.Examples: "Wheel that trolley over here, would you?"; "Why should we confine a body of men to making laws, when so many of them might be more usefully employed in wheeling barrows?"; "He […] cleared the table; piled everything on the dumb-waiter; gave us our wine-glasses; and, of his own accord, wheeled the dumb-waiter into the pantry."transitive
2. (transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.Examples: "She wheeled the dung in the wheelbarrow Along a stretch of road; But she always ran away and left Her not-nice load,"; "Bob was wheeling the baby up and down, Mabel watching him, hawk-eyed, as though she suspected him of harboring intentions of tipping the cab over."; "We open in a grimy, fluorescent-lit military base somewhere in rural England, where the girl from the poster, Melanie (Sennia Nanua), is the star student in a class full of children who are wheeled into school—or at least, the nondescript concrete room that serves as a school—with their arms, legs, and foreheads bound to their wheelchairs by leather straps."transitive
3. (intransitive, dated) To ride a bicycle or tricycle.datedintransitive
4. (intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.Examples: "Your daughter, if you have not given her leave, I say again, hath made a gross revolt; Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes In an extravagant and wheeling stranger Of here and every where."; "The dog screamed, and, wheeling in terror, galloped headlong in a new direction."; "The gulls in the river were flying in long, lazy curves, dipping down to the water, skimming it an instant, and then wheeling up again with easy, slanting wings."intransitive
5. (transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn.Examples: "[…] he did as Menelaus had said, and set off running as soon as he had given his armour to a comrade, Laodocus, who was wheeling his horses round, close beside him."; "Then wheeling his black steed suddenly, he raced away before the dazed soldiers could get their wits together to send a shower of arrows after him."transitive
6. (intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.Examples: "The vulture wheeled above us."; "[…] Each aloft Upon his narrowed eminence bore globes Of wheeling suns, or stars, or semblances Of either, showering circular abyss Of radiance."; "The nineteenth Autumn has come upon me / Since I first made my count. / I saw, before I had well finished, / All suddenly mount / And scatter wheeling in great broken rings / Upon their clamorous wings."intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary