wheel
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(verb) move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle |
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Synonyms: roll |
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Related Words: bowl, go, locomote, move, travel, troll |
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(verb) change directions as of revolving on a pivot; "They wheeled their horses around and left" |
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Synonyms: wheel around |
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Related Words: cartwheel, go around, revolve, rotate |
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(verb) wheel somebody or something |
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Synonyms: wheel around |
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Related Words: transport |
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(noun) 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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Related Words: balance wheel, bicycle wheel, buffing wheel, car wheel, cartwheel, caster, castor, cogwheel, daisy print wheel, daisy wheel, driving wheel, emery wheel, gear, gear wheel, grinding wheel, handwheel, machine, nosewheel, paddle wheel, paddlewheel, potter's wheel, roulette, rowel, simple machine, sprocket, sprocket wheel, toothed wheel, trundle, wagon wheel, water wheel, waterwheel |
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(noun) a wheel used to control the rudder of a vessel |
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Related Words: helm |
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(noun) stretches, disjoints or mutilates victims |
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Synonyms: rack |
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Related Words: instrument of torture |
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(noun) a rotating wheel with slots that is used for gambling; players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in |
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Synonyms: roulette wheel |
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Related Words: game equipment |
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(noun) a handwheel that is used for steering |
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Synonyms: steering wheel |
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Related Words: handwheel |
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(noun) has two wheels; moved by foot pedals |
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Synonyms: bicycle, bike |
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Related Words: all-terrain bike, cycle, mountain bike, off-roader, ordinary, ordinary bicycle, push-bike, safety bicycle, safety bike, velocipede |
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(verb) ride a bicycle |
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Synonyms: bicycle, bike, cycle, pedal |
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Related Words: backpedal, ride |
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