Wheel
A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk, whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes or radii, and a central hub or nave, in which is inserted the axle, -- used for supporting and conveying vehicles, in machinery, and for various purposes; as, the wheel of a wagon, of a locomotive, of a mill, of a watch, etc.
Any instrument having the form of, or chiefly consisting of, a wheel.
A spinning wheel. See under Spinning.
An instrument of torture formerly used.
A circular frame having handles on the periphery, and an axle which is so connected with the tiller as to form a means of controlling the rudder for the purpose of steering.
A potter's wheel. See under Potter.
A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases.
The burden or refrain of a song.
A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede.
A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
A turn revolution; rotation; compass.
To convey on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle; as, to wheel a load of hay or wood.
To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to cause to gyrate; to make or perform in a circle.
To turn on an axis, or as on an axis; to revolve; to more about; to rotate; to gyrate.
To change direction, as if revolving upon an axis or pivot; to turn; as, the troops wheeled to the right.
To go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass.
To roll forward.
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Wheel Quotations
The wheel is come full circle.
William Shakespeare
First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we're going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product - the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.
Steve Jobs
The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
Benjamin Franklin
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
Ayn Rand
In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.
Steven Wright
The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
J. K. Rowling
When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
Guillaume Apollinaire
Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
Herodotus
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
E. B. White
There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.
Ray Charles
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
Aldo Leopold
But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to.
Woody Harrelson
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Browning
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
Jack London
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Josh Billings
I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way.
Ryan Gosling
America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
Allen Ginsberg
When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.
Dale Earnhardt
Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
Dale Earnhardt
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
Aesop
Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user.
Pat Sajak
Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars - maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.
Stone Gossard
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.
Dean Kamen
I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.
Charlie Watts
Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.
Morris West
Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.
Dee Hock
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
I love to get behind the wheel and get competitive.
Jason Statham
If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.
Eric Liu
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Wheel Translations
wheel in Afrikaans is wiel
wheel in Danish is hjul
wheel in Dutch is wiel, rad
wheel in French is roue
wheel in German is Rad
wheel in Italian is ruota
wheel in Latin is rota
wheel in Norwegian is hjul
wheel in Portuguese is roda
wheel in Spanish is rueda
wheel in Swedish is hjul, ratt, ring
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