Noun
The car's rear wheels started to spin on the icy road.
the wheels of a train
a suitcase with wheels on the bottom
a wheel of cheddar cheese Verb
Doctors wheeled the patient into the operating room.
He wheeled his motorcycle into the garage.
Our waiter wheeled out a small dessert cart.
She wheeled around in her chair when I entered the room.
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Noun
Make sure the tires reconnect with the road - During the skid, wait until the tires reconnect with the road and then gently straighten the wheels to regain control.—Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 May 2025 More importantly, Espinal saw the Guardians running the wheel play, with the first baseman and third baseman crashing in from the corners and the shortstop and second baseman moving to cover third base and first base, respectively.—C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Verb
Curry-Winchell relayed her concerns to the nurse who had wheeled her into the delivery room.—Adrianna Rodriguez, USA Today, 8 May 2025 In the evenings, an elderly husband and wife from Eastern Europe, who must be in their nineties, are wheeled out by their Caribbean aides to watch people stroll past.—Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 5 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for wheel
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Old English hweogol, hwēol; akin to Old Norse hvēl wheel, Greek kyklos circle, wheel, Skt cakra, Latin colere to cultivate, inhabit, Sanskrit carati he moves, wanders
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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