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

The ring gear in turn drives the hub of the driving wheel.
The yoke supports the axle on which the drive wheel is mounted.
Without a freewheel the rear wheel would drive the pedals around.
The diameter of the drive wheel determined the gear of the bicycle.
This meshes with the center wheel pinion and drives the wheel train.
The yarn cooperates with the drive surface so as to drive the wheel.
This is the emergence of the first four wheel drive Nissan Bluebird.
At low water ,the river is sometimes fordable with a good 4 wheel drive.
Horses are hitched to a very lightweight two wheeled cart, called a sulky.
A tumbrel, is a two wheeled cart or wagon typically designed to be hauled by a single horse or ox.