wheel

IPA: wˈiɫ

A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
(informal, with "the") A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.
(nautical) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
A spinning wheel.
A potter's wheel.
The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.
(slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
(computing, dated) A superuser on certain systems.
(poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace-2-3-4-5.
(poker slang) The best low hand in Lowball or High-low split poker: either ace-2-3-4-5 or 2-3-4-5-7, depending on the variant.
(automotive) A wheelrim.
A round portion of cheese.
A Catherine wheel firework.
(obsolete) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
(figurative) A recurring or cyclical course of events.
(slang, archaic) A dollar.
(UK, slang, archaic) A crown coin; a "cartwheel".
(archaic, informal) A bicycle or tricycle.
A manoeuvre in marching in which the marchers turn in a curving fashion to right or left so that the order of marchers does not change.

(transitive) To roll along on wheels.
(transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
(intransitive, dated) To ride a bicycle or tricycle.
(intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
(transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
(intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
(transitive) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.
(intransitive, grime music) To reload a track; to play a wheel-up.

Examples of "wheel" in Sentences

Not trying to rebuild the wheel is a wise thing to do.
The wheel of Fortune is not the _wheel_ of a _housewife_.
Because the word wheel no longer applied to a single, proprietary product.
The term wheel is used because the Buddha's teachings explain the cycle or circle of existence.
Heah come a wheel -- two wheels -- three wheels; fetch one mo '; heah, a odd wheel; de train's a-saggin' down lop-sided fur _one mo 'wheel_!
And the wheel is about to hit the road again, I believe, as those who are now adolescents and pre-teens face realities that have nothing to do with sex or personal style.
There is no necessity of our seeing one another in the business, but I do want to put my shoulder to the wheel -- _wheel_ of Fortune, eh? ha, ha! "and he rubbed his large hands gleefully till they fairly glowed.
Often a wheel, sometimes a cart-wheel or even a spinning-wheel, formed part of the mechanism; in Aberdeenshire it was called the muckle wheel; in the island of Mull the wheel was turned from east to west over nine spindles of oak-wood.