wheel

名词 n. 动词 v.
/wiːl/|/ʍiːl/    /wil/|/ʍil/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
    — The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
  2. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.; A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle. informal,with-definite-article
    — He fell asleep at the wheel.
  3. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.; The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
    — 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.
  4. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.; A spinning wheel.
  5. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.; A potter's wheel.
    — Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
  6. The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.
  7. A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel. slang
  8. A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.; A superuser on certain systems. dated,slang
  9. The lowest straight in poker: ace-2-3-4-5. slang
  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. slang
  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. obsolete
    — Flashing thick flames , wheel within wheel undrawn
  15. A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
    — [He] throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel.
  16. A recurring or cyclical course of events. figuratively
    — the wheel of life
  17. The control of, or ability to steer, the course of events. figuratively
    — This is the story of how AI changed our world in 2025, in new and exciting and sometimes frightening ways. It is the story of how Huang and other tech titans grabbed the wheel of history, developing technology and making decisions that are reshaping the information landscape, the climate, and our livelihoods.
  18. A dollar. archaic,slang
  19. A crown coin. UK,archaic,slang
  20. A bicycle or tricycle. archaic,informal
    — There was no vehicle of any sort, on land or water, in those days, that could go as fast as a bicycle, except a railroad train. […] Hammondsport and Glenn Curtiss had never even heard of the not yet quite born automobile. But Glenn Curtiss could push his "wheel," with those long legs of his, uphill, downhill or on the level, faster than any other boy in Hammondsport.
  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.
    — The real numbers can be extended to a wheel, as can any commutative ring.
  23. The return to a peculiar rhythm at the end of each stanza.
动词 v.
  1. To roll along on wheels. transitive
    — Wheel that trolley over here, would you?
  2. To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair. transitive
    — The patient was wheeled out of the ER.
  3. To ride a bicycle or tricycle. dated,intransitive
  4. To make a circular movement. intransitive
    — My arms wheeled frantically in the air as I tried to signal for help.
  5. To move smoothly and easily, as if on wheels. intransitive
    — I wheeled through the gathering, making all my appointed stops.
  6. To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around. intransitive
    — 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.
  7. To cause to change direction quickly, turn. transitive
    — […] 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.
  8. To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air. intransitive
    — The vulture wheeled above us.
  9. To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle. transitive
    — Now Heav’n in all her Glorie shon, and rowld Her motions, as the great first-Movers hand First wheeld thir course;
  10. To reload a track; to play a wheel-up. intransitive
    — The crowd wanted to track to be played again, so they shouted out "Wheel it".

词形变化

wheels plural wheels present,singular,third-person wheeling participle,present wheeled participle,past wheeled past

词汇关系

近义词
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衍生词
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wheel drive wheel driving wheel eighteen-wheeler English wheel epicycloidal wheel escape wheel exercise wheel fan-wheel Ferris wheel fifth wheel firewheel fish wheel flicker wheel flutter wheel flywheel follow a wheel footwheel forewheel foundling wheel four-wheel four-wheel drive four-wheel-drive free wheel freewheel freewheeling front wheel front-wheel drive front-wheel skid fudge wheel gear-wheel gearwheel gear wheel Geneva wheel German wheel grease the wheels great spur wheel great wheel grinding wheel guidewheel half-wheel hamster wheel handwheel headwheel heart wheel hell on wheels horsewheel Hot Wheel human roulette wheel idle wheel inwheel jagging wheel joy wheel kick the wheels kick wheel lantern wheel lapidary's wheel leading wheel Leibniz wheel licorice wheel liquorice wheel mag wheel main wheel mani wheel meals on wheels measuring wheel medicine wheel mill wheel millwheel mitre wheel monkey wheel monowheel mortise wheel mouse wheel news wheel North American wheel bug nosewheel observation wheel omni wheel on wheels open wheel open-wheel open-wheel racing paddle wheel pastry wheel pattern wheel Pelton wheel Persian wheel phonic wheel pilot wheel pinwheel pitwheel pizza wheel planet wheel plate wheel poly-wheel poly wheel Poncelet wheel ponce wheel potter's wheel pot wheel pounce wheel power wheel prayer wheel praying wheel press wheel print-wheel printwheel print wheel put a spoke in someone's wheel put one's shoulder to the wheel ratchet wheel reaction wheel reading wheel rear wheel rear-wheel drive reinventing the wheel reinvention of the wheel reinvent the wheel roadwheel rockwheel roll one's wheels roulette wheel scape-wheel scoopwheel scoop wheel scroll wheel set one's shoulder to the wheel set the wheels in motion ship's wheel side-wheel sidewheel sidewheeler sit in the wheels sit on someone's wheel skateboard wheel skew wheel slow wheel snail-wheel snowflake wheel spare wheel spider wheel spinner wheel spinning wheel spin one's wheels spin someone's wheels split wheel sprocket wheel spur-wheel squeaky wheel squeaky wheels get oiled squeaky wheel system squirrel wheel star wheel starwheel steel wheel steering wheel steering wheel becket steering wheel spinner steering wheel spinner knob sternwheel stern-wheeler stream wheel swing wheel tailwheel take the wheel the squeaky wheel gets the grease the squeaky wheel gets the oil the wheel has come full circle the wheels came off the wheels came off the bus the wheels came off the wagon the wheels fall off the wheels fell off the wheels fell off the bus the wheels fell off the wagon the wheel turns third wheel three-wheel three-wheeler throwing wheel thumbwheel thunder-wheel tide wheel tonewheel trackwheel trailing wheel training wheels training wheel trammel wheel treadwheel trundle wheel tub wheel two-wheel drive two-wheeler two-wheel tractor typewheel type wheel ultimate wheel until the wheels fall off unwheel upwheel wagon wheel wagon-wheel effect walking wheel Wartenberg 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wheelstone wheelsuck wheelsucker wheels-up wheelswarf wheeltapper wheel-tapper wheeltapping wheel tax wheel tree wheel truck wheel urchin wheel war wheel wash wheelway wheel well wheelwell wheel window wheelwise wheel within a wheel wheelwoman wheelwork wheelwright wheelwrighting wheely windwheel wire wheel worm and wheel worm wheel Zuppinger wheel wheel around wheel away wheel-up word-wheeling

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂
Proto-Germanic *hweulō
Old English hwēol
Middle English whel
English wheel
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, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish 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, cyclus, and kike.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂
Proto-Germanic *hweulō
Old English hwēol
Middle English whel
English wheel
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, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish 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, cyclus, and kike.
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