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# wheel

«wheel» in Mova's school dictionary: **a round thing that turns on a rod so a car, bike or cart…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (wheel, wheels); verb (wheel, wheels, wheeled, wheeling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A wheel is a round thing that turns on a rod so a car, bike or cart can move. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheel/#m1)

2) A steering wheel is the wheel a driver turns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheel/#m2)

3) To wheel something is to push it along on wheels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheel/#m3)

4) A wheel is also any turning round part, like a Ferris wheel or a water wheel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheel/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: wheels counted per vehicle (bicycle 2, tricycle 3, car 4); wheel puzzles; turns of a wheel and distance. In science: the wheel and axle is a simple machine; the wheel is one of the oldest inventions. In everyday life: a flat tyre on a wheel, a wheelchair, a Ferris wheel. Phrases: «behind the wheel» (driving), «on wheels», «reinvent the wheel».

### examples

- A car has 4 wheels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheel/#x1)
- There are 5 bikes and 2 cars. How many wheels? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheel/#x2)
- A tricycle has 3 wheels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheel/#x3)
- The wheel turns 10 times a minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheel/#x4)
- She wheeled her bike into the shed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheel/#x5)
- Mum is behind the wheel today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheel/#x6)
- We rode the big wheel at the fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheel/#x7)
- The invention of the wheel changed how people moved goods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheel/#x8)

### note

Countable: «a wheel», «wheels». Maths: a bicycle has 2 wheels, a tricycle has 3 wheels, a car has 4 wheels. Wheels per vehicle hide a rate; multiply and add. Trap: the problem may not say how many wheels each has — you must know it.

### In the corpora

- [The caravan was «shining with newness, painted a canary-yellow picked out with green, and red wheels».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart/25/)
- [With half a turn of the wheel it crashes through a hedge into a muddy horse-pond.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/64-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond/6/)
- [Read it aloud and the quick beat sounds like wheels rushing on rails.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/9/)
- [A trolley, a cart or wheels can move heavy things without lifting them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/12/)
- [A hamster wheel must be big enough for its back to stay straight, or it can hurt its spine.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wheel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.