Usually means: Circular component that enables rotation.
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We found 58 dictionaries that define the word wheel:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. wheel: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wheel, the wheel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wheel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wheel, the wheel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wheel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wheel, wheel: Wordnik
  7. wheel, the wheel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Wheel, Wheel, Wheel, Wheel, Wheel, Wheel: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. wheel: Wiktionary
  10. wheel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wheel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wheel: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Wheel, wheel: Dictionary.com
  14. wheel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. wheel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Wheel (Mad Men episode), The Wheel (Rosanne Cash album), The Wheel (album), The Wheel (band), The Wheel (song), The Wheel, The wheel (torture device), The wheel, Wheel (Laura Stevenson album), Wheel (Unix term), Wheel (album), Wheel (computing), Wheel (detergent), Wheel (disambiguation), Wheel (poker), Wheel (route), Wheel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Wheel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. wheel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. wheel: Rhymezone
  20. wheel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. wheel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Wheel: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. wheel: Free Dictionary
  24. wheel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. wheel: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. wheel: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Wheel: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Wheel: Legal dictionary
  3. Wheel: Radio Programming and Production

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. wheel: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. wheel: CCI Computer
  3. wheel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wheel: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. wheel: Sound Alike Words
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. wheel: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. WHEEL: Acronym Finder
  2. wheel: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wheel: Easton Bible

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. DRAGONFLY TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Wheel: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wheel, wheel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. wheel, the wheel: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wheel: Dan's Poker
  2. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Wheel: Bicycle Glossary
  5. Wheel: Poker Terms

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. wheel: Master Mariner
  3. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Wheel: Pottery Studio

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
noun:  (informal, with "the") A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.
noun:  (nautical) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
noun:  A spinning wheel.
noun:  A potter's wheel.
noun:  The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.
noun:  (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
noun:  (computing, dated) A superuser on certain systems.
noun:  (poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace-2-3-4-5.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (automotive) A wheelrim.
noun:  A round portion of cheese.
noun:  A Catherine wheel firework.
noun:  (obsolete) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
noun:  A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
noun:  (figurative) A recurring or cyclical course of events.
noun:  (slang, archaic) A dollar.
noun:  (UK, slang, archaic) A crown coin; a "cartwheel".
noun:  (archaic, informal) A bicycle or tricycle.
noun:  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.
verb:  (transitive) To roll along on wheels.
verb:  (transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To ride a bicycle or tricycle.
verb:  (intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
verb:  (intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
verb:  (transitive) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.
verb:  (intransitive, grime music) To reload a track; to play a wheel-up.

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