Whole vs Wheel - What's the difference?
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Entire.
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
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*1939 , (Alfred Edward Housman), Additional Poems , X, lines 5-6
*:Here, with one balm for many fevers found, / Whole of an ancient evil, I sleep sound.
(lb) From which none of its constituents has been removed.
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A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
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# (label) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
# A spinning wheel.
# A potter's wheel.
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#* (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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As nouns the difference between whole and wheel
is that whole is something complete, without any parts missing while wheel is a circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.As an adjective whole
is entire.As an adverb whole
is (colloquial) in entirety; entirely; wholly.As a verb wheel is
(intransitive|or|transitive) to roll along as on wheels.whole
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages.}}
Meronyms
* partDerived terms
* as a whole * go the whole hog * make whole * on the whole * out of whole cloth * the whole nine yards * whole shitting match * whole shooting match * whole ball of wax * whole-hearted * wholemeal * whole number * whole step * wholesome * whole-wheatStatistics
*External links
*All and whole— Linguapress online English grammar
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.
