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What does wheel mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word wheel? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
    1. (informal, with "the") A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.
    2. (nautical) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
    3. A spinning wheel.
    4. A potter's wheel.
    5. (heraldry) This device used as a heraldic charge, usually with six spokes.
  2. A wheel-like device used as an instrument of torture or punishment.
  3. (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
  4. (poker) The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5.
  5. (automotive) A wheelrim.
  6. A round portion of cheese.
  7. A Catherine wheel firework.
  8. (obsolete) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
  9. A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
  10. (computing) A superuser on certain systems.
Verb
  1. (intransitive or transitive) To roll along on wheels.
  2. (transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
  3. (intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
  4. (transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
  5. (intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
  6. (transitive) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.
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