wheel
[ hweel, weel ]
/ ʰwil, wil /
noun
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
Idioms for wheel
Origin of wheel
before 900; (noun) Middle English
whel(e), Old English
hwēol, hweohl; cognate with Dutch
wiel, Old Norse
hjōl; akin to Greek
kýklos (see
cycle); (v.) Middle English, derivative of the noun
OTHER WORDS FROM wheel
wheel·less, adjective un·der·wheel, noun un·wheel, verb (used with object)Words nearby wheel
British Dictionary definitions for wheels within wheels
wheel
/ (wiːl) /
noun
verb
See also
wheels
Derived forms of wheel
wheel-less, adjectiveWord Origin for wheel
Old English
hweol, hweowol; related to Old Norse
hvēl, Greek
kuklos, Middle Low German
wēl, Dutch
wiel
Idioms and Phrases with wheels within wheels (1 of 2)
wheels within wheels
Complex interacting processes, agents, or motives, as in It's difficult to find out just which government agency is responsible; there are wheels within wheels. This term, which now evokes the complex interaction of gears, may derive from a scene in the Bible (Ezekiel 1:16): “Their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.” [c. 1600]
Idioms and Phrases with wheels within wheels (2 of 2)
wheel