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wheel

The English word “wheel” has 31 meanings listed here.

  1. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
  2. A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.
  3. The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
  4. A spinning wheel.
  5. A potter's wheel.
  6. The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.
  7. A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
  8. A superuser on certain systems.
  9. The lowest straight in poker: ace-2-3-4-5.
  10. 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.
  11. A wheelrim.
  12. A round portion of cheese.
  13. A Catherine wheel firework.
  14. A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
  15. A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
  16. A recurring or cyclical course of events.
  17. The control of, or ability to steer, the course of events.
  18. A dollar.
  19. A crown coin.
  20. A bicycle or tricycle.
  21. A maneuver in marching in which the marchers turn in a curving fashion to right or left so that the order of marchers does not change.
  22. A type of algebra where division is always defined, and in particular division by zero is meaningful.
  23. The return to a peculiar rhythm at the end of each stanza.
  24. To roll along on wheels.
  25. To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
  26. To ride a bicycle or tricycle.
  27. To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
  28. To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
  29. To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
  30. To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.
  31. To reload a track; to play a wheel-up.
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