Wheels & Tires

• A solid disk or a rigid circular ring connected by spokes to a hub, designed to turn around an axle passed through the center.
• Something resembling such a disk or ring in appearance or movement or having a wheel as its principal part or characteristic, as:
  • The steering device on a vehicle.
  • A potter's wheel.
  • A water wheel.
  • A spinning wheel.
  • Games A device used in roulette and other games of chance.
  • A firework that rotates while burning.
  • Informal A bicycle.
  • An instrument to which a victim was bound for torture during the Middle Ages.
• wheels Forces that provide energy, movement, or direction: the wheels of commerce.
• The act or process of turning; revolution or rotation.
• A military maneuver executed in order to change the direction of movement of a formation, as of troops or ships, in which the formation is maintained while the outer unit describes an arc and the inner or center unit remains stationary as a pivot.
• Wheels Slang A motor vehicle or access thereto: Do you have wheels tonight?
• Slang A person with a great deal of power or influence: a wheel in state government.
  • v. wheeled, wheel·ing, wheels
  • v.tr.
    • To roll, move, or transport on wheels or a wheel.
    • To cause to turn around or as if around a central axis; revolve or rotate.
    • To provide with wheels or a wheel.
  • v.intr.
    • To turn around or as if around a central axis; revolve or rotate.
    • To roll or move on or as if on wheels or a wheel.
    • To fly in a curving or circular course: A flock of gulls wheeled just above the dock.
    • To turn or whirl around in place; pivot: "The boy wheeled and the fried eggs leaped from his tray" Ivan Gold.
    • To reverse one's opinion or practice: Don't be surprised if the boss wheels about on that idea.

Idioms

• at/behind the wheel
  • Operating the steering mechanism of a vehicle; driving.
  • Directing or controlling; in charge.
• wheel and deal Informal.
• To engage in the advancement of one's own interests, especially in a canny, aggressive, or unscrupulous way.