guide vs wheel

guide

noun
  • A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest. 

  • Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain. 

  • A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery. 

  • A sign that guides people; guidepost. 

  • A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel. 

  • A spirit believed to speak through a medium. 

  • A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook. 

  • Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference. 

verb
  • to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path. 

  • to act as a guide. 

  • to exert control or influence over someone or something. 

  • to supervise the education or training of someone. 

  • to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot. 

wheel

noun
  • A manoeuvre in marching in which the marchers turn in a curving fashion to right or left so that the order of marchers does not change. 

  • A wheelrim. 

  • A potter's wheel. 

  • A round portion of cheese. 

  • The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5. 

  • A Catherine wheel firework. 

  • A recurring or cyclical course of events. 

  • A turn or revolution; rotation; compass. 

  • The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered. 

  • A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel. 

  • The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture. 

  • A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines. 

  • A spinning wheel. 

  • A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle. 

verb
  • To roll along on wheels. 

  • To cause to change direction quickly, turn. 

  • To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air. 

  • To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle. 

  • To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair. 

  • To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around. 

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