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Wheels vs Axle - What's the difference?

wheels | axle |

As nouns the difference between wheels and axle

is that wheels is while axle is (obsolete) shoulder or axle can be the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.

As a verb wheels

is (wheel).

wheels

English

Noun

(head) (plural )
  • (by meronymy) An automobile or other vehicle
  • :* Like my new wheels ?
  • :* rolling 18 wheels
  • (bodybuilding, slang) Well-developed thigh muscles.
  • * 1999 March 22, “OB205”, "Re: Freakiest Bodybuilder?", misc.fitness.weights, Usenet
  • Martin: Just for legs, Tom Platz in his heyday has never been approached.
    OB205: I totally agree with this, even to this day no one can beat those WHEELS !
  • * 2004 December 28, Mark Jenkins and Jeff O’Connell, The Jump Off: 60 Days to a Hip-Hop Hard Body , page 76, HarperCollins
  • But Mary J. goes all-out during big leg day, and look at her wheels —toned but very feminine.
  • * 2006 April 30, Jim Stoppani, Encyclopedia of Muscle & Strength , page 131, Human Kinetics Publishers
  • ... try this big wheels program to pack on muscle to your quads and hams.

    See also

    * guns

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wheel)
  • Anagrams

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    axle

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) axle, eaxle, from (etyl) , (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Shoulder.
  • Etymology 2

    A combination of (etyl) eax and (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.
  • A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.
  • An axis; as, the Sun’s axle.
  • See also

    * (wikipedia "axle") *

    Anagrams

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