Wheel vs Nom - What's the difference?
wheel | nom |
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 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.
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* Milton
Nomination.
* 2000 May 30, "Webmaster -- Kevin Stroud" (username), "
* 2001 July 17, "William Tunstall-Pedoe" (username), "
* 2010 February 13, "Juan F. Lara" (username), "
Nominator.
Nominee.
to nominate
* 1998 , "blaque" (username), "
* 2001 , "William Tunstall-Pedoe" (username), "
* 2007 , Variety staff, "
(label) to eat
As nouns the difference between wheel and nom
is that wheel is a circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines while nom is sino-vietnamese.As a verb wheel
is (intransitive|or|transitive) to roll along as on wheels.As an adjective nom is
prose-like, simple, easy to understand or nom can be sino-vietnamese.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.
Derived terms
* wheel around * wheel away * word-wheelingnom
English
Etymology 1
Shortened from (nomination), (nominee), and so on.Noun
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Verb
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