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Wheel vs Awheel - What's the difference?

wheel | awheel |

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 to roll along as on wheels.

As an adjective awheel is

riding a bicycle.

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.
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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
    • 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

    awheel

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (dated) Riding a bicycle.
  • :* {{quote-web
    • , date=2009-02-16 , year= , first= , last= , author= , authorlink= , title=Keeping it Reeled In , site=Bike Snob NYC citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-08-26 , passage=Originally we were supposed to conduct the interview on bikes (or "awheel " as the British say) … }}
  • travelling by a wheeled vehicle; mobile
  • :* {{quote-magazine
    • , date=1927-10-01 , year= , month= , first= , last= , author=Johnson , coauthors= , title=Talk of the Town , volume= , issue= , page= , magazine=New Yorker , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage=... an observer at large who chanced to be at the corner of Fourteenth Street and Seventh Avenue late one night when the traffic signals brought to a halt the few taxis that were awheel then. }}
  • circling, moving in the shape of a wheel
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1983 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Poul Anderson , title=Time Patrolman , chapter=The Sorrow of Odin the Goth , url= , genre=Sci-fi , publisher=Tom Doherty , isbn=9780812530766 , page= , passage=Its light glimmered on the river and on the wings of carrion fowl awheel overhead. }}