bicycle wheel
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- noun
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rueda de bicicleta
- There are padded blankets, like the kind movers use, tied to the roof rack, as well as a folded lawn chair and a single bicycle wheel, which has a bent rim.
It had four bicycle wheels, hence quadricycle.
- It had four bicycle wheels, hence quadricycle.
Examples
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Bicycle wheels spinning along the bike path, tiny as gears in a watch, throw off faint metallic sparks of light.
Fiction book (1994) -
A boy of about nine is wheeling an old bicycle wheel across the grass.
Blog text (13) -
Real objects that contain circles need to be present for pupils to observe, such as bicycle wheels.
Academic text (1999) -
The rest of the class is seated in team rows radiating from the monitor like spokes on a bicycle wheel.
Academic text (2000) -
The bicycle wheel broke during our ride, making it impossible to continue.
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He replaced the flat tire with a new bicycle wheel before the race.
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She admired the shiny spokes of the bicycle wheel as it spun slowly.
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Morphology
The meaning 'the wheel that is part of a bicycle' is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents 'bicycle' and 'wheel' as a straightforward part-of compound. This literal, cross-linguistically common noun compound follows standard English compounding patterns and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Bicycle wheel comes from a simple picture: it is the wheel on a bicycle, a round frame with spokes that turns to make the bike move. So it means 'the wheel that is part of a bicycle'.