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four-wheeled

four-wheeled

1 3.2
A thing that has four wheels, like a car or cart
  • adjective
  • /fɔr-wild/
translation icon : de cuatro ruedas
  • The park's maintenance team uses a four-wheeled truck to transport supplies.
  • four-wheeled vehicles
  • four-wheeled cart
  • four-wheeled all-terrain

Examples

  • We use padded four-wheeled dollies to move upright pianos and piano boards to move baby grand pianos.

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  • He drove a sturdy four-wheeled vehicle across the rugged terrain.

  • Now in its 4th year, Refuel 2012 offers anyone with an electric vehicle, be it two, three, or four-wheeled, the chance to drive it around a real race course to see what it can do.

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  • And the point at which you solve real world AI for a car, which is really a robot on four wheels, you can then generalize that to a robot on legs as well.

  • A close visual inspection of several sites showed artifacts like encased sheets of colorful cloth and even crude four-wheeled vehicles.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • This four-wheeled 1,500 lb monster goes from 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds with a top speed above 300 mph.

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  • Now he plodded wearily alongside a four-wheeled cart that was pulled just as wearily by a cuddly, small-but-sturdy four-legged mountain animal.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • She picked me up in a four-wheeled, two-seated, open-top surrey that glistened with varnish, although it must have been sitting in the barn behind the Peak house for 60 years.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • "Ch'klorb watched moving pictures of a small group of laughing bipeds emerging from a four-wheeled transport device, then go tripping merrily along a path of crystalline silicon dioxide beside a vast body of liquid water.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • The family bought a new, red, four-wheeled car to take on their road trip.

Synonyms

four-wheel
vsfour-wheeled
18 2.0

A vehicle that has four wheels

is mainly an adjective used to describe things with four wheels especially vehicles

How Many

four-wheeled
1 3.2
two-wheeled
1 2.8
wheeled
1 2.5
wheelless
5.2

Surface Forms

four-wheeled positive

Morphology

four-wheeled = four-wheel (transparent) = four + wheel + ed

The meaning is directly derived from 'four-wheel' to 'four-wheeled', indicating a characteristic of having four wheels.

Etymology

The word four-wheeled comes from the parts four ('four') and wheel ('a round part that turns'), and the -ed ending that makes it describe something. So four-wheeled simply means 'having four wheels', which is easy to see in most cars and toy vehicles.