Heel vs Wheel - What's the difference?
heel | wheel |
(anatomy) The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
* Denham
The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel.
The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot.
(firearms) The back upper part of the stock.
The last or lowest part of anything; as, the heel of a mast'' or ''the heel of a vessel .
* A. Trollope
(US, Ireland) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
* Sir Walter Scott
(US) The base of a bun sliced in half lengthwise.
* 1996 , Ester Reiter, Making Fast Food: From the Frying Pan Into the Fryer (page 100)
A contemptible, inconsiderate or thoughtless person.
(slang, professional wrestling) A wrestler whose on-ring persona embodies villainous or reprehensible traits. Contrast with babyface.
* 1992 , Bruce Lincoln, Discourse and the Construction of Society (page 158)
(card games) The cards set aside for later use in a patience or solitaire game.
Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.
(architecture) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. Specifically, (US), the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
(architecture) A cyma reversa; so called by workmen.
(carpentry) the short side of an angled cut
To follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.
To add a heel to, or increase the size of the heel of (a shoe or boot).
To kick with the heel.
To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, etc.
* Shakespeare
To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
The act of inclining or canting from a vertical position; a cant.
A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
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, chapter=5, title= # A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.
# (label) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
# A spinning wheel.
# A potter's wheel.
#* Bible, (w) xviii. 3
#* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
# (heraldiccharge) This device used as a heraldic charge, usually with six spokes.
A wheel-like device used as an instrument of torture or punishment.
(label) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
(label) The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5.
(label) Wheel rim.
A round portion of cheese.
A Catherine wheel firework.
(label) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
* (Robert South) (1634–1716)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(intransitive, or, transitive) To roll along as on wheels.
To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
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To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.
* Gray
* Milton
As a proper noun heel
is a part of maasgouw in the netherlands.As a noun wheel is
a circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.As a verb wheel is
(intransitive|or|transitive) to roll along as on wheels.heel
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) hele, heel, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- He [the stag] calls to mind his strength and then his speed, / His winged heels and then his armed head.
- the heel of a hunt
- the heel of the white loaf
- The bottom half, or the bun heel is placed in the carton, and the pickle slices spread evenly over the meat or cheese.
- Freedman began his analysis by noting two important facts about professional wrestling: First, that heels triumph considerably more often than do babyfaces
- (Gwilt)
Antonyms
* (angled cut in carpentry) toeDerived terms
* Achilles heel * bring someone to heel * cool one's heels * dig in one's heels * down at heel * head over heels * heelside * heel-and-toe * high heels * hot on somebody's heels * kick one's heels * kick up one's heels * kitten heel * Tar Heel * stiletto heel * spike heel * take to one's heels * turn on one's heel * well-heeledVerb
(en verb)- I cannot sing, / Nor heel the high lavolt.
Etymology 2
Alteration of earlier heeld, from (etyl) heelden, from (etyl) hyldan, ). More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- The ship gave a heel to port.
Synonyms
* (l)Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----wheel
English
Noun
(en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
- Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels .
- Turn, turn, my wheel ! This earthen jar / A touch can make, a touch can mar.
- (Milton)
- According to the common vicissitude and wheel of things, the proud and the insolent, after long trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled upon themselves.
- [He] throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel .
Synonyms
* (instrument of torture) breaking wheel * (wheel rim) rimDerived terms
* balance wheel * behind the wheel * big wheel * breaking wheel * break on the wheel * buffing wheel * cartwheel * car wheel * Catherine wheel * click wheel * cog wheel, cogwheel * color wheel, colour wheel * daisy wheel * disk wheel * driving wheel * eighteen-wheeler * escape wheel * Ferris wheel * fifth wheel * flywheel * foundling wheel * four-wheel * four-wheel drive * freewheel * freewheeling * front-wheel drive * gear wheel, gearwheel * Geneva wheel * grease the wheels * hell on wheels * idle wheel * kick wheel * lantern wheel * leading wheel * mag wheel * meals on wheels * mill wheel * motorcycle wheel * paddle wheel * pinwheel * planet wheel * potter's wheel * prayer wheel * print wheel * ratchet wheel * reinvent the wheel * roulette wheel * scoop wheel, scoopwheel * skateboard wheel * spinning wheel * spin one's wheels * sprocket wheel * the squeaky wheel gets the grease * steel wheel * steering wheel * stern-wheeler * take the wheel * the wheel * three-wheeler * tide wheel * trailing wheel * training wheels * two-wheeler * wagon wheel * water wheel * wheel and axle * wheelbarrow * wheelbase * wheel breadth * wheelchair * wheel clamp * wheeled * wheelhouse * wheelie * wheelie bin * the wheels fell off * wheel of Fortune * wheel of life * wheel rim * wheels * wheelspin * wheel within a wheel * wheelwright * wheely * worm wheelSee also
* (wikipedia "wheel")References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
Verb
(en verb)- Wheel that trolley over here, would you?
- The vulture wheeled above us.
- The beetle wheels her droning flight.
- Now heaven, in all her glory, shone, and rolled / Her motions, as the great first mover's hand / First wheeled their course.