different between caster vs wheels

English

Alternative forms

• castor (esp. UK)

Etymology

cast +? -er; the wheel sense comes from obsolete cast (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?k??st?(r)/, /?kæst?(r)/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?kæst?r/
• Rhymes: -??st?(r)
• Homophone: castor

Noun

caster (plural casters)

1. Someone or something that casts

2. A wheeled assembly attached to a larger object at its base to facilitate rolling. A caster usually consists of a wheel (which may be plastic, a hard elastomer, or metal), an axle, a mounting provision (usually a stem, flange, or plate), and sometimes a swivel (which allows the caster to rotate for steering).

3. A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling condiments such as sugar, salt, pepper, etc.

4. A stand to hold a set of shakers or cruets.
5. (automotive) The angle of the axis around which a car's front wheels rotate when the steering wheel is turned, with a vertical axis being defined as zero caster.

Derived terms

• spearcaster

Translations

See also

• caster angle
• caster sugar

Verb

caster (third-person singular simple present casters, present participle castering, simple past and past participle castered)

1. To act as a caster

Anagrams

• Cartes, Cestar, acters, carest, carets, cartes, caters, crates, creats, racest, reacts, recast, rescat, reäcts, traces

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?lz, IPA^(key): /wi?lz/
• Homophones: wheals, weals (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

wheels

1. plural of wheel

Noun

wheels pl (plural only)

1. (by meronymy) An automobile or other vehicle; a set of wheels

   • Like my new wheels?
   • rolling 18 wheels

2. (bodybuilding, slang) Well-developed thigh muscles.
   • 1999 March 22, “OB205”, "Re: Freakiest Bodybuilder?", misc.fitness.weights, Usenet

     Martin: Just for legs, Tom Platz in his heyday has never been approached.

     OB205: I totally agree with this, even to this day no one can beat those WHEELS!

   • 2004 December 28, Mark Jenkins and Jeff O’Connell, The Jump Off: 60 Days to a Hip-Hop Hard Body, page 76, HarperCollins

     But Mary J. goes all-out during big leg day, and look at her wheels—toned but very feminine.

   • 2006 April 30, Jim Stoppani, Encyclopedia of Muscle & Strength, page 131, Human Kinetics Publishers

     ...try this big wheels program to pack on muscle to your quads and hams.

See also

• guns

Verb

wheels

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wheel

Anagrams

• Lehews, WelshE, shewel