different between wheels vs axel
wheels
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?lz, IPA(key): /wi?lz/
- Homophones: wheals, weals (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Noun
wheels
- plural of wheel
Noun
wheels pl (plural only)
- (by meronymy) An automobile or other vehicle; a set of wheels
- Like my new wheels?
- rolling 18 wheels
- (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.
- 1999 March 22, “OB205”, "Re: Freakiest Bodybuilder?", misc.fitness.weights, Usenet
See also
- guns
Verb
wheels
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wheel
Anagrams
- Lehews, WelshE, shewel
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axel
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æk.s?l/
- Rhymes: -æks?l
- Homophone: axle
Etymology 1
Named after Norwegian skater Axel Paulsen (1855–1938), who in 1882 became the first to perform the jump.
Noun
axel (plural axels)
- (figure skating) A jump that includes one (or more than one) complete turn and a half turn while in the air.
- Synonym: axel jump
- 1991, Harvard Magazine, Volume 94, page 44,
- Wylie, however, landed his Olympic axels beautifully and electrified the crowd as he capped a skating career that began at age three in Aspen, Colorado, when he followed two older sisters onto the ice.
- 1997, Beverley Smith, A Year in Figure Skating, page 115,
- Men had to do triple Axels or at least attempt them with tenacity.
- 2005, Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology, Volume 30, page 746,
- […] King et al. (1994) and King (1997) compared single, double, and triple axels of junior and senior level skaters; Albert and Miller (1996) compared single and double axels of “good” figure skaters; […] .
Derived terms
- double axel
- triple axel
See also
- loop jump
- lutz
- quadruple jump
- sulchow
- waltz jump
Further reading
- Axel jump on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
Noun
axel
- Misspelling of axle.
- 1755, "A Country Gentleman", A New System of Agriculture; Or, A Plain, Easy, and Demon?trative Method of ?peedily growing Rich, page 177,
- This end of the Axel is to be fa?ten'd into a Wheel, exactly like tho?e, which are us'd in many Places, for the roa?ting Meat.
- 1900, Municipal Reports of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, page 85,
- Ten 4-wheel hose wagons, three with ballbearing axels and one with roller-bearing axels, all manufactured in the city.
- 1944, Private and Local Acts Passed by the Legislature of Wisconsin, Publisher not identified, page 627,
- The gross weight on any 2 or more axels shall not exceed 26,000 pounds plus 1,000 pounds for each foot of distance measured longitudinally to the nearest foot between the foremost and rearmost of the axels under consideration.
- 1755, "A Country Gentleman", A New System of Agriculture; Or, A Plain, Easy, and Demon?trative Method of ?peedily growing Rich, page 177,
Anagrams
- Alex, Lexa, axle
Middle English
Alternative forms
- axle, eaxle, æxle, exle
Etymology
From Old English eaxl, from Proto-West Germanic *ahslu, from Proto-Germanic *ahsl?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?aks?l/, /??ks?l/
Noun
axel (plural axeles)
- shoulder
Descendants
- English: axle (obsolete)
- Scots: aixle, exle
References
- “axel, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.
Swedish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Swedish axl, from Old Norse ?xl, from Proto-Germanic *ahsl?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?s-.
Noun
axel c
- (anatomy) a shoulder; a body part
Declension
Related terms
- axelvadd
- axla
Etymology 2
From Old Swedish axul, from Old Norse ?xull. Related to Latin axis.
Noun
axel c
- an axis; an imagined line about which something rotates
- an axle; a rod around which a wheel turns
- a driveshaft; a rotating rod which transfers torque from a motor to a place where it can be applied
- (mathematics) an axis; as in coordinate axis
- Den reella axeln
- The real axis
- Den reella axeln
- a jump in figure skating with one (or more) and a half turns in the air.
Declension
Related terms
- axelmakt
- axeltapp
- koordinataxel
- rotationsaxel
- vevaxel
Anagrams
- Alex
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