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Concise Oxford Paravia Italian Dictionary © 2009 Pearson Paravia Bruno Mondadori spa e Oxford University Press:
1.wheel /wiːl, AE hwiːl/
  1. n.
    1. (on vehicle) ruota f.;
      (on piece of furniture) rotella f.
    1. (for steering) volante m.; mar. ruota f. del timone;
      to be at o behind the ~ stare al volante;
      to take the ~ (in vehicle) mettersi al volante
    1. (in mechanism) ruota f. dentata
  1. wheels n.pl. colloq. (car) macchina f.sing., auto f.sing.;
    have you got ~s? colloq. sei in macchina?
  1. -wheeled agg. in composti a three-, four-~ed vehicle un veicolo a tre, quattro ruote
locuzioni idiomatiche it’s ~s within ~s è una faccenda complicata.
2. wheel /wiːl, AE hwiːl/
  1. tr. spingere [bicycle, pram];
    they ~ed me into the operating theatre mi hanno portato nella sala operatoria in barella
  1. intr.
    1. (anche ~ round) (circle) [bird] volteggiare
    1. (turn sharply) [person] voltarsi improvvisamente;
      [regiment] compiere una conversione;
      [vehicle] sterzare di colpo;
      [ship] virare
locuzioni idiomatiche to ~ and deal intrallazzare.

Phrasal verbs:
wheel in, wheel out: ~ [sth.] out, ~ out [sth.] tirare fuori [story, excuse].


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wheel: WordReference English-Italiano Dictionary © 2012

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wheel (to wheel someone)spingere qualcuno (sulla sedia a rotelle, sulla bicicletta, etc.) v
wheel (to wheel around)girare intorno v
wheel (to bicycle)andare in bicicletta v
wheel (steering wheel) di autovolante nm
wheel (to pass)passare v
wheelruota nf
wheel (instrument of torture)ruota nf
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wheel: WordReference English-Italiano Dictionary © 2012

Compound Forms/Forme composte
at the wheeladv (driving a vehicle)al volante
 al posto di guida
Ernest was at the wheel when a pine tree fell across the road.
at the wheeladv idiom (in charge, in command)al posto di comando
behind the wheeladv (driving, in control of a vehicle)al volante avv
big wheeln (fairground Ferris wheel)ruota panoramica nf
big wheeln US, informal (sb important, powerful) informalepezzo grosso nm
castor wheeln (roller underneath furniture)rotella nf
catherine wheel arch. Rosonerosone nm
catherine wheel (pyrotechnics)girandola
catherine wheel (ginnastica)ruota
cog in the wheel, cog in the machinen figurative (small part of a large system) figuratouna rotellina dell'ingranaggio
diamond wheelmola diamantata
disk wheelruota a disco
driving wheelruota motrice
escape wheeln (moving part of a timepiece)ruota di scappamento nf
Ferris wheeln (wheel at a fairground)ruota panoramica nf
The London Eye is one of the world's tallest Ferris wheels.
You have a terrific view from the top of a Ferris wheel.
fifth wheelruota di scorta
fly wheelvolano nm
four-wheelquattro ruote adj
four-wheel driven (all four wheels powered by engine) meccanicatrazione integrale nf
front-wheela trazione anteriore
front-wheel driven (car: power to front wheels only)trazione anteriore nf
Her new car with front-wheel drive handled slippery roads much better than the old truck did.
Oggigiorno quasi tutte le automobili sono a trazione anteriore.
gear wheelruota dentata
great wheelingranaggio di un orologio
grinding wheelmola nf
measuring wheeln (device for calculating length)ruota di misurazione nf
nose wheeln (part of a plane's undercarriage) aeronauticacarrello di prua, carrello anteriore nm
paddle wheeln (wheel that propels a paddle boat) navigazioneruota a pale
paddle-wheelpala nf
paddle-wheel boatbarca con ruote a pale nf
potter's wheeltornio (del vasaio)
prayer wheel usato dai buddistiruota della preghiera nf
roulette wheelroulette
spinning wheeln (device for spinning fibre into yarn) per filaretelaio nm
As a child, I had a spinning wheel to make yarn from wool.
Da bambino avevo un telaio per filare la lana.
steering wheeln (control wheel of a vehicle) automobilevolante nm
È una macchina ultra-sportiva con un volante piccolissimo.
tail wheelrotino di coda
the wheelil corso, il ciclo nm
two-wheela due ruote
water wheeln (rotating hydropower machine)mulino ad acqua nm
In the cotton mills a water wheel was often used to generate electricity.
wheel and dealintrallazzare v
wheel baseinterasse nm
wheel controlcomando a volante
wheel lockbloccaggio delle ruote
wheel of fortuneruota della fortuna nm
wheel partsparti della ruota
wheel-mountedmontato su ruote
wheel-trackinterasse
wire wheelruota a raggi di filo d'acciaio
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