Слово англійською: wheel
Дієслово
Переклад wheel українською: вертіти, котити, кружляти, котитися
Детальний опис
move something/somebody with wheels
- [transitive] wheel something (+ adv./prep.) to push or pull something that has wheels
- She wheeled her bicycle across the road.
- [transitive] wheel somebody/something (+ adv./prep.) to move somebody/something that is in or on something that has wheels
- The nurse wheeled him along the corridor.
move in circle
- [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) to move or fly in a circle
- Birds wheeled above us in the sky.
turn quickly
- [intransitive, transitive] to turn quickly or suddenly and face the opposite direction; to make somebody/something do this
- (+ adv./prep.) She wheeled around and started running.
- Jim wheeled back to face me.
- wheel somebody/something (+ adv./prep.) He wheeled his horse back to the gate.
- He wheeled his horse around.
Word OriginOld English hwēol (noun), of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit cakra ‘wheel, circle’ and Greek kuklos ‘circle’.
Idioms - (usually used in the progressive tenses) (often disapproving) to do a lot of complicated deals in business or politics, often in a dishonest way
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