Word Meanings - WHEEL-SHAPED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Expanding into a flat, circular border at top, with scarcely any tube; as, a wheel-shaped corolla. (more info) 1. Shaped like a wheel.
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- CIRCULARLY
In a circular manner. - CIRCULAR
1. A circular letter, or paper, usually printed, copies of which are addressed or given to various persons; as, a business circular. 2. A sleeveless cloak, cut in circular form. - EXPAND
To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. Dryden. - CIRCULARITY
The quality or state of being circular; a circular form. - BORDER
1. To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden. 2. To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region - SHAPE
is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and - WHEELBIRD
The European goatsucker. - WHEEL OF FORTUNE
A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules. - COROLLATE; COROLLATED
Having a corolla or corollas; like a corolla. - WHEELWRIGHT
A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like. - WHEELED
Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four- wheeled carriage. - EXPANDER
Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc. - WHEELBARROW
A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person. - SHAPER
1. One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes. The secret of those old shapers died with them. Lowell. 2. That which shapes; a machine for giving a particular form or outline to an object. Specifically; A kind of planer in which the tool, - WHEELWORK
A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism. - SHAPELY
1. Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical. T. Warton. Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn. Pope. Where the shapely column stood. Couper. 2. Fit; suitable. Shaply for to - WHEELING
1. The act of conveying anything, or traveling, on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle. 2. The act or practice of using a cycle; cycling. 3. Condition of a road or roads, which admits of passing on wheels; as, it is good wheeling, or bad wheeling. - SHAPOO
The oörial. - WHEELBAND
The tire of a wheel. - BORDEREAU
A note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents. - CATHERINE WHEEL
See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her - MISHAPPEN
To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser. - SPINDLE-SHAPED
Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle. - FOUR-WHEELER
A vehicle having four wheels. - DIAMOND-SHAPED
Shaped like a diamond or rhombus. - STRAP-SHAPED
Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla. - IMBORDER
To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton. - PELTON WHEEL
A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity. - AWL-SHAPED
Subulate. See Subulate. Gray. (more info) 1. Shaped like an awl. - SWORD-SHAPED
Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like. - FIDDLE-SHAPED
Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side. Gray. - BREASTWHEEL
A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on - FUDGE WHEEL
A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole. - ARTILLERY WHEEL
A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc. - WHEEL
A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases. The burden or refrain of a song. Note: "This meaning has a low degree of authority, but is supposed from the context in the few cases where the - STREAM WHEEL
A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.