different between wheels vs axle

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æks?l/
• Rhymes: -æks?l
• Homophones: axel, axil

Etymology 1

From Middle English axel, axle, eaxle, from Old English eaxl (“shoulder, armpit”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahslu (“shoulder”), from Proto-Germanic *ahsl? (“shoulder”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?s-l-eh?, from *h?e?s- (“axis, axle”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian acsle (“shoulder”), Dutch oksel (“armpit”), German Achsel (“armpit”), Swedish axel (“shoulder”), Latin axilla (“armpit”), Latin axis (“axle”),Greek ?????? (áxonas, “axle”), Sanskrit ???? (ák?a, “axle”), Sanskrit ???? (kak?á, “room, armpit”), Russian ??? (os?, “axle”).

Noun

axle (plural axles)

1. (obsolete) Shoulder.

Etymology 2

From Middle English axil, in turn a combination of Old English eax and Old Norse ?xull.

Noun

axle (plural axles)

1. The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.
2. A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.
3. (geometry, astronomy, archaic) An axis.

   the Sun's axle

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• axle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Axle in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Alex, Axel, Lexa, axel

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English eaxl.

Noun

axle

1. Alternative form of axel

Etymology 2

A conflation of Old English eax and Old Norse ?xull.

Noun

axle

1. Alternative form of axil