What's the difference between heel and wheel?

Heel


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.
  • (n.) The hinder part of the foot; sometimes, the whole foot; -- in man or quadrupeds.
  • (n.) The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe, sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder part of the sole of a boot or shoe.
  • (n.) The latter or remaining part of anything; the closing or concluding part.
  • (n.) Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.
  • (n.) The part of a thing corresponding in position to the human heel; the lower part, or part on which a thing rests
  • (n.) The after end of a ship's keel.
  • (n.) The lower end of a mast, a boom, the bowsprit, the sternpost, etc.
  • (n.) In a small arm, the corner of the but which is upwards in the firing position.
  • (n.) The uppermost part of the blade of a sword, next to the hilt.
  • (n.) The part of any tool next the tang or handle; as, the heel of a scythe.
  • (n.) Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horse understands the heel well.
  • (n.) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
  • (n.) A cyma reversa; -- so called by workmen.
  • (v. t.) To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, and the like.
  • (v. t.) To add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe.
  • (v. t.) To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A distally based posterior tibial artery adipofascial flap with skin graft was used for the reconstruction of soft tissue defects over the Achilles tendon in three cases and over the heel in three cases.
  • (2) Forty heels in 32 patients were reviewed either by a clinical and radiographical examination (35 heels), or by a questionnaire (5 heels) after an average of 6 years (range 1-12 years).
  • (3) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.
  • (4) And I have come to tell you this: the trends for this coming season will be extremely expensive furs, very high-heeled shoes and full-length ballgowns.
  • (5) Resistance was applied in reaction time trials via an electromagnet placed below the subject's heel.
  • (6) Hot on the heels of the secret justice green paper – which seeks to shut claimants out of their own cases against the state to defend the "public interest" – comes a major expansion of powers to monitor the phone calls, emails and website visits of every person in the UK .
  • (7) Computer digitization revealed that distal anastomotic intimal hyperplasia occurred exclusively at the heel and the toe of the graft and the floor of the host artery.
  • (8) In follow-up examination of 71 cases for periods longer than one year, 79 per cent of the patients showed that the UCBL shoe insert and the Helfet heel seat improved the clinical and roentgenographic appearance of the foot.
  • (9) FBI v Apple hearing: 'Apple is in an arms race with criminals and hackers' – live Read more This all comes on the heels of a judge in New York strongly rebuking the FBI and Department of Justice in a court decision on Monday.
  • (10) The tension required for release of the bindings laterally at the toe and vertically at the heel was measured and compared with the values recommended by the International Association for Skiing Safety.
  • (11) But Spurs built up a final head of steam and after Gomes punched clear Trippier’s initial cross, a second fell to Son at the near post and he back-heeled the ball past Gomes.
  • (12) His achilles heel would be reconciling disparate sections of the grassroots party and restoring the fissures in the parliamentary party.
  • (13) Despite the spring-heeled bounce in their hair-raising hardcore storm – and their productive affair with Funkmaster George Clinton – the Peppers’ soul stew remains predominantly, ragingly punky.
  • (14) A second recession hard on the heels of the first gives the (accurate) impression that the economy is a disaster area and makes a downgrade more likely.
  • (15) We self-censure because it would put us all back, it would diminish who we are.” Of course she’s a feminist: “That just means believing that women can do everything men can but backwards in heels with a cherry on top.
  • (16) Warming the heel produced no significant improvement in results.
  • (17) Hot on the heels of the Beijing Olympics, Shanghai’s 2010 Expo was the biggest in history, spread across an area five times the size of Milan’s exposition at a cost of $50bn (£32bn) – a level of ambition that saw 18,000 families forcibly displaced , according to Amnesty International.
  • (18) You will have to offer leadership and a sense of belonging to the civil service's lowly clerks and frontline staff in the Department for Work and Pensions, struggling not just with Iain Duncan Smith's fantasies of benefit rationalisation, but sharp contractors snapping at their heels.
  • (19) The brothers said they were pleased that after “a great deal of dragging of their heels” the Mail and Hopkins had accepted the allegations were false.
  • (20) The patient's main phenotypic features were short-limb dwarfism, craniofacial disproportion with prominent forehead, short neck and trunk with pectus carinatum, and platyspondyly, protuberant abdomen, acromesomelic shortness of limbs, bilateral palm simian crease, short feet with brachydactyly of the 2nd toe, and prominent heels.

Wheel


Definition:

  • (n.) A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk, whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes or radii, and a central hub or nave, in which is inserted the axle, -- used for supporting and conveying vehicles, in machinery, and for various purposes; as, the wheel of a wagon, of a locomotive, of a mill, of a watch, etc.
  • (n.) Any instrument having the form of, or chiefly consisting of, a wheel.
  • (n.) A spinning wheel. See under Spinning.
  • (n.) An instrument of torture formerly used.
  • (n.) A circular frame having handles on the periphery, and an axle which is so connected with the tiller as to form a means of controlling the rudder for the purpose of steering.
  • (n.) A potter's wheel. See under Potter.
  • (n.) A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases.
  • (n.) The burden or refrain of a song.
  • (n.) A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede.
  • (n.) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
  • (n.) A turn revolution; rotation; compass.
  • (v. t.) To convey on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle; as, to wheel a load of hay or wood.
  • (v. t.) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to cause to gyrate; to make or perform in a circle.
  • (v. i.) To turn on an axis, or as on an axis; to revolve; to more about; to rotate; to gyrate.
  • (v. i.) To change direction, as if revolving upon an axis or pivot; to turn; as, the troops wheeled to the right.
  • (v. i.) To go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass.
  • (v. i.) To roll forward.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
  • (2) From the standpoint of breakeven facts and resource efficiency the minicenter and clinic-on-wheels were similar and superior to the other two.
  • (3) Among the improved patients, eight became ambulatory and independent in activities of daily living (ADL), eight became independent from a wheel-chair level, and eight returned home or to the community.
  • (4) This is where he would infuriate the neighbours by kicking the football over his house into their garden; this is Old Street, where his friends would wait in their car to whisk him off to basketball without his parents knowing; Pragel Street, where physiotherapists spotted him being wheeled in a Tesco shopping trolley by friends and suggested he took up basketball; the Housing Options Centre, where he sent a letter forged in his father's name saying he had thrown 16-year-old Ade out and he needed social housing.
  • (5) The chicks were individually placed in running wheels for 2 x 1 hr, 24 hr before testing.
  • (6) A total of 60 male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned at 6 weeks of age to a sedentary control group (n = 22) or to a group with unlimited access to a running wheel (n = 38).
  • (7) The relatively conservative behavior of these mice in selecting between multiple sources of food and water and different types of activity wheels suggests the need for careful experimental design in free-choice studies with inexperienced animals.
  • (8) Of course, if the wheels are falling off the regime, people will try to find a way out, but it is much more likely that they will simply defect, rather than try to pull off a coup and then negotiate a deal for the regime.
  • (9) The pressure sore resulted from the commonly practised habit of grasping the upright of the wheel chair with the upper arm in order to gain stability.
  • (10) Blinded female reats were placed in running-wheel cages to monitor the phase of their activity cycle.
  • (11) Cells have been injected iontophoretically with the calcium sensitive metallochromic dye arsenazo III and changes in differential absorbance have been measured using a spinning wheel microspectrophotometer.
  • (12) Motor vehicle occupants may suffer severe cervical airway injuries as the result of impaction with the steering wheel, dashboard, windshield, backseat, and seat belt.
  • (13) The 2008 financial crisis saw countries adopt extreme measures to keep the economic wheels turning, for example by reducing interest rates to record lows , pumping billions into the system through quantitative easing in the US, Japan, the UK and the euro-area, and striking trade deals to open markets further.
  • (14) The causes of barotrauma were: 1) Undue length of the tube pressed by machine's wheel which connect the ventilator to the anesthesia machine.
  • (15) The role of steering wheel design in maxillofacial trauma is discussed and new solutions briefly reviewed.
  • (16) For US allies, trying to follow Washington’s lead over the past four months has been akin to trying to drive in convoy behind a car swerving violently at high speed, as the competing factions inside lunge for the steering wheel.
  • (17) Last month, neighbours watched in silence as her bloodstained body was wheeled out of the front door of the small house she shared with her two daughters on the outskirts of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.
  • (18) This tends to push buyers behind the wheel of a diesel, which usually produces less CO2 than an equivalent petrol.
  • (19) Towards the end, as entire eras wheeled past in a blur, I realised the programme itself would outlive me, and began desperately scrawling notes that described the broadcast's initial few centuries for the benefit of any descendants hoping to pick up from where I left off.
  • (20) But it also succeeded by elevating the likes of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo to the kind of status usually reserved for totemic superheroes such as Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, characters destined to be wheeled out time and time again in different big screen iterations.