| Meaning | A simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines). |
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| Part of | wheeled vehicle | A vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people |
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| Parts | felloe, felly | rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted |
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| rim | The outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached |
| Narrower | balance wheel, balance | A wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine |
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| bicycle wheel | The wheel of a bicycle |
| buffing wheel | A wheel that is covered with soft material |
| car wheel | A wheel that has a tire and rim and hubcap |
| cartwheel | A wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim |
| daisy print wheel, daisy wheel | A wheel around which is a set of print characters that make a typing impression on paper |
| driving wheel | A wheel that drives a motor vehicle (transforms torque into a tractive force) |
| gear, gear wheel, geared wheel, cogwheel | A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion |
| grinding wheel, emery wheel | A wheel composed of abrasive material |
| handwheel | A wheel worked by hand |
| nosewheel | A wheel located under the nose of an airplane that is part of the plane's landing gear |
| paddlewheel, paddle wheel | A large wheel fitted with paddles and driven by an engine in order to propel a boat |
| pinwheel | A wheel that has numerous pins that are set at right angles to its rim |
| potter's wheel | A horizontal rotating wheel holding the clay being shaped by a potter |
| ratchet wheel | toothed wheel held in place by a pawl or detent and turned by a lever |
| roller | A small wheel without spokes (as on a roller skate) |
| roulette, toothed wheel | A wheel with teeth for making a row of perforations |
| rowel | A small spiked wheel at the end of a spur |
| sprocket, sprocket wheel | Thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain |
| trundle | small wheel or roller |
| wagon wheel | A wheel of a wagon |
| waterwheel, water wheel | A wheel that rotates by direct action of water |
| waterwheel, water wheel | A wheel with buckets attached to its rim |
| Broader | machine, simple machine | A device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point |
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| Spanish | rueda |
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| Catalan | roda |
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| Adjectives | four-wheel, four-wheeled | of or relating to vehicles with four wheels |
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| three-wheel, three-wheeled | of or relating to vehicles having three wheels |
| two-wheel, two-wheeled | of or relating to vehicles with two wheels |
| Verbs | wheel | move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle |
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| wheel | wheel somebody or something |
| wheel | ride a bicycle |
