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weal | wheel |

As nouns the difference between weal and wheel

is that weal is (obsolete) wealth, riches or weal can be a raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by stroke of rod or whip; a welt while wheel is a circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.

As verbs the difference between weal and wheel

is that weal is to mark with stripes; to wale while wheel is (intransitive|or|transitive) to roll along as on wheels.

weal

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Wealth, riches.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • as we love the weal of our souls and bodies
  • * Milton
    • to him linked in weal or woe
  • Specifically, the general happiness of a community, country etc. (often with qualifying word).
  • * Macaulay
    • Never was there a time when it more concerned the public weal that the character of the Parliament should stand high.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter IV , passage=The austerity of my tone seemed to touch a nerve and kindle the fire that always slept in this vermilion-headed menace to the common weal [...].}}
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 372:
    • Louis could aim to restyle himself the first among citizens, viewing virtuous attachment to the public weal as his most important kingly duty.

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l)
    Related terms
    * in weal or woe

    Etymology 2

    See wale

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by stroke of rod or whip; a welt.
    • Synonyms
    * wheal

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mark with stripes; to wale.

    • Anagrams

    * English terms with homophones

    wheel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
  • # 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
  • Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels .
  • #* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
  • Turn, turn, my wheel ! This earthen jar / A touch can make, a touch can mar.
  • # (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.
    • (Milton)
  • A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
  • * (Robert South) (1634–1716)
    • 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.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
    • [He] throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel .

    Synonyms

    * (instrument of torture) breaking wheel * (wheel rim) rim

    Derived 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 wheel

    See also

    * (wikipedia "wheel")

    References

    * Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive, or, transitive) To roll along as on wheels.
    • Wheel that trolley over here, would you?
  • To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
    • The vulture wheeled above us.
  • * '>citation
  • 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
    • The beetle wheels her droning flight.
  • * Milton
    • Now heaven, in all her glory, shone, and rolled / Her motions, as the great first mover's hand / First wheeled their course.

    Derived terms

    * wheel around * wheel away * word-wheeling