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Source Word

wheel

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ʍiːl/

Noun

informal with-definite-article slang dated obsolete figuratively archaic UK

(informal, with "the") A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle. / (nautical) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered. / A spinning wheel. / A potter's wheel.

Japanese Meaning

（車などの）ハンドル、またはステアリングホイール / （船舶の）舵輪 / 紡績車（紡ぐための装置） / ろくろ（陶芸で使用する回転盤）

What is this buttons?

I've got the wheel; trust me to get us there safely.

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私がハンドルを握っているから、安心して目的地まで連れて行くよ。

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Sense（1）

(informal, with "the") A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.

Sense（2）

(nautical) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.

Sense（3）

A spinning wheel.

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A potter's wheel.

Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.

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Sense（5）

The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.

Sense（6）

(slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.

Sense（7）

(computing, dated) A superuser on certain systems.

Sense（8）

(poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Sense（9）

(automotive) A wheelrim.

Sense（10）

A round portion of cheese.

Sense（11）

A Catherine wheel firework.

Sense（12）

(obsolete) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.

Flashing thick flames , wheel within wheel undrawn

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Sense（13）

A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.

[He] throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel.

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Sense（14）

(figuratively) A recurring or cyclical course of events.

the wheel of life

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Sense（15）

(slang, archaic) A dollar.

Sense（16）

(UK, slang, archaic) A crown coin; a "cartwheel".

Sense（17）

(archaic, informal) A bicycle or tricycle.

There was no vehicle of any sort, on land or water, in those days, that could go as fast as a bicycle, except a railroad train. […] Hammondsport and Glenn Curtiss had never even heard of the not yet quite born automobile. But Glenn Curtiss could push his "wheel," with those long legs of his, uphill, downhill or on the level, faster than any other boy in Hammondsport.

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