What's the difference between shimmy and wheel?

Shimmy


Definition:

  • (n.) A chemise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Having given his marker the slip, Sturridge picked up the ball on the edge of the penalty area, turned Antonio Luna inside-out, then somehow shimmied his way around Brad Guzan and fired the ball high into the roof of the net in order to avoid two defenders who'd rushed back to man the line.
  • (2) 14 min: Zabaleta gets on the end of a beautifully angled David Silva pass on the right-hand side of the Dortmund penalty area and tries to shimmy and wriggle his way towards goal from the goal-line.
  • (3) Pape Souaré’s substitution at half-time was presumably so Palace’s left-back could have his neck iced, so many times did he find himself whirling around in a funk trying to work out exactly where Mahrez had shimmied off to now.
  • (4) 3.34pm BST 34 mins: Brilliant build up play by Suarez outside the box, as he drops a shoulder to create some space, then shimmies past one defender, but his left-footed shot is scuffed and straight to Krul for an easy save.
  • (5) The cerebral midfielder shimmies this way and that, hoping to prise United open somehow, but the red line holds firm.
  • (6) The man whose idea of small talk was once endogenous growth theory shimmied round the dance floor, swayed his hips and ran his hands up and down his (strangely non-shrinking) body, mouthing the words: “Oooooooooooh, sexy laaaydeee …” We all had high hopes for Balls on Strictly, but none of us could have ever predicted these dizzying highs – not even his wife Yvette Cooper , who watches every week with the expression of a mother watching her over-enthusiastic toddler at a dancing display.
  • (7) He dinks into Vargas, who looks to shimmy a yard of space, but Javi Martinez's tackle bobbles a foot or so wide.
  • (8) 65 min: Di Maria dances, shimmies, shakes and makes other disco-friendly movements down the right, before cutting inside, romping into the area, and whacking a low shot goalwards.
  • (9) Trochowski shimmies down the left and lifts a cross into the centre for Klose, who sidefoots a dropping ball into the bottom-left corner.
  • (10) ET21: Shimmying down the left, Kaka tries to muscle his way around the the back of the Bayern Munich defence.
  • (11) As Kalaba had a free-kick glance just wide off Cheik Tioté, there were shimmies and shuffles all over, almost as though they were determined to rile Ivory Coast.
  • (12) I can see myself speaking – it’s humiliating.” With that, she shimmies away to the far end of the couch.
  • (13) His songs were the soundtrack to my life: a quavering New York voice with little range singing songs of alienation and despair, with flashes of impossible hope and of those tiny, perfect days and nights we want to last for ever, important because they are so finite and so few; songs filled with people, some named, some anonymous, who strut and stagger and flit and shimmy and hitch-hike into the limelight and out again.
  • (14) They came in all different price points and in all different styles: round elephants reminiscent of French cartoons from the 1960s, and strange pseudo-sexual shimmies, and with 1920s straw boater hats leading parades.
  • (15) Those pre-ordering now get an instant download of the excellent Almost Like the Blues , a sombre lyric full of suffering set to a classy shimmy.
  • (16) A shirtless young man shimmied down a lamppost after scrawling "Leave you murderer" across a billboard of the president's face.
  • (17) Hey, nothing says "rave" quite like the CEO of Barclaycard shimmying around a chocolate teardrop in black tie get-up.
  • (18) No problem – depression, sexual frustration, genocide – it seemed, was so big that it couldn't be solved by a spontaneous shimmy.
  • (19) Anyone who missed a cinema ad in which a glass of Baileys gloop is transformed into scores of shimmying beauties, so as "to celebrate the spirit of modern womanhood", can still catch its festive promotion, "spend time with the girls this Christmas", in which three modern women, discovering that they prefer the beverage to any amount of testosterone, illustrate how positive action can be cute and fun.
  • (20) Backed up by a few handheld cameras and 22 radio mikes, they capture the ups and downs of academic life, from the maths teacher singing One Direction to himself as he shimmies down the corridor, to the lies told by a year 11 pupil as she successfully pins the blame on another pupil for a fight she had a hand in starting.

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.