Definitions for wheels

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wheels wheel

Spelling: [hweel, weel]

IPA: /ʰwil, wil/

Wheels is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in wheels (eehlsw).

Definitions for wheels

noun

1. a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.
2. any machine, apparatus, instrument, etc., shaped like this or having a circular frame, disk, or revolving drum as an essential feature:
3. steering wheel.
4. Nautical. a circular frame with an axle connecting to the rudder of a ship, for steering: a paddle wheel. a propeller.
5. Informal. a bicycle.
6. a round object, decoration, etc.:
7. an old instrument of torture in the form of a circular frame on which the victim was stretched until disjointed.
8. a circular firework that revolves rapidly while burning; pinwheel.
9. a rotating instrument that Fortune is represented as turning in order to bring about changes or reverses in human affairs.
10. wheels. moving, propelling, or animating agencies: Slang. a personal means of transportation, especially a car.
11. a cycle, recurring action, or steady progression:
12. a wheeling or circular movement:
13. (formerly) a movement of troops, ships, etc., drawn up in line, as if turning on a pivot.
14. Informal. someone active and influential, as in business, politics, etc.; an important person:

Idioms

1. at the wheel, at the helm of a ship, the steering wheel of a motor vehicle, etc. in command or control:
2. hell on wheels. hell (def 19).
3. spin one's wheels, Informal. to expend or waste effort to no avail:
4. wheel and deal, Informal. to operate dynamically for one's own profit or benefit.
5. wheels within wheels, an involved interaction of motives or agencies operating to produce the final result:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to turn, rotate, or revolve, as on an axis.
2. to perform (a movement) in a circular or curving direction.
3. to move, roll, or convey on wheels, casters, etc.:
4. to provide (a vehicle, machine, etc.) with wheels.

verb (used without object)

1. to turn on or as on an axis or about a center; revolve, rotate, or pivot.
2. to move in a circular or curving course:
3. to turn so as to face in a different direction (often followed by about or around):
4. to change one's opinion or procedure (often followed by about or around):
5. to roll along on or as on wheels; travel along smoothly:
6. British Military. to turn:

Origin of wheels

before 900; (noun) Middle English whel(e), Old English hwēol, hweohl; cognate with Dutch wiel, Old Norse hjōl; akin to Greek kýklos (see cycle); (v.) Middle English,

Examples for wheels

I am sick in my soul of narrow apartments and wheels and the rush and roar of the city.

She wheels an injured boy out in a shopping cart full of watermelons.

There was something awful, in the heavy rumbling of the wheels.

Will breakfast at Balthazar bring sudden revelations about Millennials and Gen Xers and their taste in wheels?

This day we had completed the repair of the wheels of half the drays.

To run straight, the axes of all the wheels must obviously be parallel.

How did the Inca get giant blocks of stone up mountains 500 years ago without the use of wheels?

It was set a-going, not by wheels and weights like other clocks, but by the dropping of water.

The Model T, which sold tens of millions before it was retired in 1927, put America on wheels.

Apart from his wheels, Hamzat was living with few comforts and little cash.