different between wheel vs splasher

English

Etymology

From Middle English whele, from Old English hw?ogol, hw?ol, from Proto-Germanic *hwehwl?, *hweul? (compare West Frisian tsjil, Dutch wiel, Danish hjul), from Proto-Indo-European *k?ek?lóm, *k?ék?los, *k?ék?léh? (compare Tocharian B kokale (“cart, wagon”), Ancient Greek ?????? (kúklos, “cycle, wheel”), Avestan ????????????????????? (caxra), Sanskrit ???? (cakrá)), reduplication of *k?el- (“to turn”) and a suffix (literally "(the thing that) turns and turns"; compare Latin col? (“to till, cultivate”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B käl- (“to bear; bring”), Ancient Greek ???? (pél?, “to come into existence, become”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (kolo, “wheel”), Albanian sjell (“to bring, carry, turn around”), Avestan ????????????????????????????? (caraⁱti, “it circulates”), Sanskrit ???? (cárati, “it moves, wanders”)). Doublet of charkha, Ku Klux Klan, cycle, and chakra.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: w?l, IPA^(key): /?i?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?il/, /wil/
• Rhymes: -i?l
• Homophones: wheal, weal (in accents with the wine-whine merger), we'll (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

wheel (plural wheels)

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.

      • Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.

      • 1878, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kéramos

        Turn, turn, my wheel! This earthen jar / A touch can make, a touch can mar.

2. The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.
3. (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
   1. (computing, dated) A superuser on certain systems.
4. (poker slang) 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. (figuratively) A recurring or cyclical course of events.

    the wheel of life

    • According to the common vicissitude and wheel of things, the proud and the insolent, after long trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled upon themselves.

11. (slang, archaic) A dollar.
12. (Britain, slang, archaic) A crown coin; a "cartwheel".
13. (archaic, informal) A bicycle or tricycle.
    • 1927 March, Popular Science (page 22)

      There was no vehicle of any sort, on land or water, in those days, that could go as fast as a bicycle, except a railroad train. […] Hammondsport and Glenn Curtiss had never even heard of the not yet quite born automobile. But Glenn Curtiss could push his "wheel," with those long legs of his, uphill, downhill or on the level, faster than any other boy in Hammondsport.

Synonyms

• (instrument of torture): breaking wheel
• (wheel rim): rim

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Translations

See also

• wheel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN

Verb

wheel (third-person singular simple present wheels, present participle wheeling, simple past and past participle wheeled)

1. (transitive) To roll along on wheels.

   Wheel that trolley over here, would you?

   • 1841, “Parliamentary Masons.—Parliamentary Pictures,” Punch, Volume I, p. 162,^[1]

     Why should we confine a body of men to making laws, when so many of them might be more usefully employed in wheeling barrows?

   • 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapter 28,^[2]

     He […] cleared the table; piled everything on the dumb-waiter; gave us our wine-glasses; and, of his own accord, wheeled the dumb-waiter into the pantry.

   • 1916, H. G. Wells, Mr. Britling Sees It Through, Book I, Chapter 1, § 9,^[3]

     But two cheerful women servants appeared from what was presumably the kitchen direction, wheeling a curious wicker erection, which his small guide informed him was called Aunt Clatter—manifestly deservedly—and which bore on its shelves the substance of the meal.

2. (transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
   • 1916, Robert Frost, “A Girl’s Garden” in Mountain Interval, New York: Henry Holt & Co., p. 61,^[4]

     She wheeled the dung in the wheelbarrow

     Along a stretch of road;

     But she always ran away and left

     Her not-nice load,

   • 1924, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Mother Mason, Chapter 3,^[5]

     Bob was wheeling the baby up and down, Mabel watching him, hawk-eyed, as though she suspected him of harboring intentions of tipping the cab over.
3. (intransitive, dated) To ride a bicycle or tricycle.
4. (intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I, Scene 1,^[7]

     Your daughter, if you have not given her leave,

     I say again, hath made a gross revolt;

     Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes

     In an extravagant and wheeling stranger

     Of here and every where.

   • 1898, Stephen Crane, “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”^[8]

     The dog screamed, and, wheeling in terror, galloped headlong in a new direction.

   • 1912, James Stephens, The Charwoman’s Daughter, Chapter 8,^[9]

     The gulls in the river were flying in long, lazy curves, dipping down to the water, skimming it an instant, and then wheeling up again with easy, slanting wings.

   • 1917, A. E. W. Mason, The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel, Chapter 3,^[10]

     But before he could move a step a taxi-cab turned into the Adelphi from the Strand, and wheeling in front of their faces, stopped at Calladine's door.

   • 1922, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Introduction, Chapter 5,^[11]

     Enver, Jemal and Feisal watched the troops wheeling and turning in the dusty plain outside the city gate, rushing up and down in mimic camel-battle, or spurring their horses in the javelin game after immemorial Arab fashion.

5. (transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
   • 1898, Samuel Butler, The Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Prose, Book 17,^[12]

     […] he did as Menelaus had said, and set off running as soon as he had given his armour to a comrade, Laodocus, who was wheeling his horses round, close beside him.

   • 1931, Robert E. Howard, Hawks of Outremer, Chapter 2,^[13]

     Then wheeling his black steed suddenly, he raced away before the dazed soldiers could get their wits together to send a shower of arrows after him.

6. (intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.

   The vulture wheeled above us.

   • 1829, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Timbuctoo,” lines 63-67,^[14]

     […] Each aloft

     Upon his narrowed eminence bore globes

     Of wheeling suns, or stars, or semblances

     Of either, showering circular abyss

     Of radiance.

   • 1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet, Part II, Chapter 8,^[15]

     We could see the poor brute in the bottom, as the vultures came wheeling down like baroque aeroplanes; its ribs were already bare.
7. (transitive) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 7, lines 499-501,^[17]

     Now Heav’n in all her Glorie shon, and rowld

     Her motions, as the great first-Movers hand

     First wheeld thir course;

   • 1751, Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, lines 5-8,^[18]

     Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,

     And all the air a solemn stillness holds,

     Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,

     And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds:

   • 1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Sunrise on the Hills,”^[19]

     […] upward, in the mellow blush of day,

     The noisy bittern wheeled his spiral way.

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Anagrams

• Lehew

Middle English

Noun

wheel

1. Alternative form of whele (“wheel”)

English

Etymology

splash +? -er

Noun

splasher (plural splashers)

1. Someone who splashes.
2. (dated) A guard to keep off splashes from anything; especially, one of the guards over the wheels of a carriage, locomotive, etc.

References

Anagrams

• Sharples, harpless, pre-slash