three-wheeled
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- adjective
- /θriː wiːld/
:
de tres ruedas
- For example, two years ago, three-wheeled racing wheelchairs were an uncommon sight; today they represent a significant portion of the racing wheelchair market.
- three-wheeled wheelchair
Examples
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The small three-wheeled scooter is perfect for navigating through crowded streets.
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The tottering vehicle weaves through streets teeming with bicycles, three-wheeled cyclos, motorbikes, and an occasional car.
Fiction book (2000) -
The experimental wheelchair is a three-wheeled prototype.
Academic text (1997) -
A TV camera pans over to his lightweight, three-wheeled racing chair.
Fiction book (2002) -
At the playground gate, a small three-wheeled vehicle propelled by a rear engine overtook him.
Fiction book (2002) -
It has become a tour de force as students design, fabricate, test drive, and improve Electrathon America three-wheeled vehicles that enter competition.
Academic text (2010) -
The only other movement on the block was the mailman in a blue pith helmet pushing his three-wheeled cart down the sidewalk.
Fiction book (1994) -
He pointed to Straightgut's three-wheeled ORV with its fat tires parked nearby.
Fiction book (1993) -
The platform sat atop a three-wheeled robot from MobileRobots of Amherst, N.H.
Academic text (2011) -
There was a boy dribbling a basketball as he walked, a woman in a wheelchair, and a man on a three-wheeled bike towing a pug in a wooden cart.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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Having three wheels like a tricycle or scooter
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Etymology
Three-wheeled is made from the words three and wheel, and the -ed part means 'having'. Think of a tricycle or a three-wheel scooter: three-wheeled simply means a vehicle 'having' three wheels, which helps you picture its shape and balance.