Wheel

  • 91Wheel-barrowing — is a problem that may occur when an aircraft pilot places excessive forward pressure on the elevator control of a nose wheel equipped aeroplane during the takeoff or landing phase of flight. Forward pressure on the flight controls places an up… …

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  • 92Wheel-shaped — a. [1913 Webster] 1. Shaped like a wheel. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) Expanding into a flat, circular border at top, with scarcely any tube; as, a wheel shaped corolla. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 93Wheel slide protection — Wheel Slide Protection, and Wheel slip protection, are railway terms used to describe an automatic system which is used to detect prevent wheel slide during braking or wheel spin during acceleration. Analogous to ABS and Traction control systems… …

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  • 94Wheel in Motion — is a 1991 live concert video by the scottish folk rock band Runrig.Showing footage from the 1991 Loch Lomond concert and various other concerts from the 1991 tour.Originally released on VHS in 1992 it was remastered onto DVD in 2003# Always the… …

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  • 95Wheel 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …

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  • 96Wheel-worn — a. Worn by the action of wheels; as, a wheel worn road. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 97Wheel of Fortune — (jeu télévisé américain) Wheel of Fortune est un jeu télévisé américain animé par Pat Sajak depuis 1981. Il est diffusé sur un réseau de télévision appelé Local 4. Deux adaptations, en France et au Québec La Roue de la fortune (France) et La Roue …

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  • 98Wheel of Fortune (jeu télévisé américain) — Wheel of Fortune Titre original Wheel of Fortune Genre Jeu télévisé Création Merv Griffin Réalisation Dick Carson (1983 2000) Mark Corwin (2000 present) Présentation Pat Sajak, Vanna White Pays …

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  • 99wheel clamp — also clamp n a metal object that is fastened to the wheel of an illegally parked car so that it cannot be driven away American Equivalent: denver boot >wheel clamp v [T] …

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  • 100wheel and axle — wheel′ and ax′le n. mac a simple machine consisting typically of a cylindrical drum to which a concentric wheel is firmly fastened: ropes are so applied that as one rope unwinds from the wheel, another is wound onto the drum • Etymology: 1765–75 …

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