wheel

wheel is part of the Basic English 850.

Pronunciation

• enPR: wēl
• IPA: /wiːl/
• SAMPA: /wi:l/
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Homophones

• weal (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
• we'll (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
• wheal

Noun

Singular wheel

Plural wheels

A wheel

1. A wheel is a round thing (circle) on a cart or carriage or train or other machine that moves. A cart has four wheels that touch the road and turn.

   The cart needs a very smooth road because it has little wheels.