wheel: Bedeutung und Definitionen

Something resembling such a disk or ring in appearance or movement or having a wheel as its principal part or characteristic, as:

A solid disk or a rigid circular ring connected by spokes to a hub, designed to turn around an axle passed through the center.

The steering device on a vehicle.

A potter's wheel.

A water wheel.

A spinning wheel.

Games A device used in roulette and other games of chance.

A firework that rotates while burning.

Informal A bicycle.

An instrument to which a victim was bound for torture during the Middle Ages.

Forces that provide energy, movement, or direction: the wheels of commerce.

The act or process of turning; revolution or rotation.

A military maneuver executed in order to change the direction of movement of a formation, as of troops or ships, in which the formation is maintained while the outer unit describes an arc and the inner or center unit remains stationary as a pivot.

Slang A motor vehicle or access thereto: Do you have wheels tonight?

Slang A person with a great deal of power or influence: a wheel in state government.

To roll, move, or transport on wheels or a wheel.

To cause to turn around or as if around a central axis; revolve or rotate.

To provide with wheels or a wheel.

To turn around or as if around a central axis; revolve or rotate.

To roll or move on or as if on wheels or a wheel.

To fly in a curving or circular course: A flock of gulls wheeled just above the dock.

To turn or whirl around in place; pivot: "The boy wheeled and the fried eggs leaped from his tray” ( Ivan Gold).

To reverse one's opinion or practice: Don't be surprised if the boss wheels about on that idea.

at Operating the steering mechanism of a vehicle; driving.

at Directing or controlling; in charge.