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Wheelless
see synonyms of wheellessAdjective
1. wheelless
having no wheels or having no wheeled vehicles
Example Sentences:'dragging a wheelless stoneboat filled with rocks''wheelless societies'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Wheelless
see synonyms of wheellessnoun
1.
a solid disc, or a circular rim joined to a hub by radial or tangential spokes, that is mounted on a shaft about which it can turn, as in vehicles and machines
2.
anything like a wheel in shape or function
3.
a device consisting of or resembling a wheel or having a wheel as its principal component
a steering wheel
a water wheel
4. the wheel
5. short for wheel of fortune, potter's wheel
6.
the act of turning
7.
a pivoting movement of troops, ships, etc
8.
a type of firework coiled to make it rotate when let off
9.
a set of short rhyming lines, usually four or five in number, forming the concluding part of a stanza
Compare bob2 (sense 7)10.
the disc in which the ball is spun in roulette
11. US and Canadian an informal word for bicycle
12. archaic
a refrain
13. informal, mainly US and Canadian
a person of great influence (esp in the phrase big wheel)
14. at the wheel
verb
15. (when intr sometimes foll by about or round)
to turn or cause to turn on or as if on an axis
16.
to move or cause to move on or as if on wheels; roll
17. (transitive)
to perform with or in a circular movement
18. (transitive)
to provide with a wheel or wheels
19. (intransitive; often foll by about)
to change one's mind or opinion
20. wheel and deal
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Wheelless
see synonyms of wheelless noun
1.
a solid or partly solid disk, or a circular frame connected by spokes to a central hub, capable of turning on a central axis and used
as to move vehicles or transmit power in machinery
2.
anything like a wheel in shape, movement, action, etc., as a fireworks device that
revolves while burning
3.
a device or apparatus of which the principal element is a wheel or wheels
; specif.,a.
in the Middle Ages, an instrument of torture consisting of a circular frame on which the victim's limbs were painfully stretched
b.
a wheel with projecting handles for controlling the rudder of a ship
c.
paddle wheel, potter's wheel, spinning wheel, steering wheel, etc.
d.
any of various rotatable disks used for gambling
a roulette wheel
e. US, Informal
a bicycle
f. US; [pl.]; Slang
an automobile
4. [usually pl.]
the moving, propelling, or controlling forces or agencies
the wheels of progress
5.
a turning about; circular, rotating, or revolving movement; specif., a turning movement
as of troops or ships in line, with one end of the line as the pivot; also, any pivoting
movement like this, as of dancers
6. US, Slang
an important, influential, or authoritative person
: also big wheel7. Archaic
the refrain of a song
verb transitive
8.
a.
to move or roll along (something equipped with wheels)
to wheel a baby buggy
b.
to transport in a wheeled vehicle
9.
to cause to turn, revolve, or rotate
10.
to furnish with a wheel or wheels
verb intransitive
11.
to turn on or as on an axis; pivot, rotate, revolve, etc.
12.
to reverse one's course of action, movement, opinion, attitude, etc.
often with about13.
to turn in a swooping, circular motion
said of birds14.
to move or roll along on or as on wheels
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