wheelful

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The amount a wheel can hold.
    — The external boundary is surface enough for communication between the organelles of a single cell with their minuscule volumes. But the surface of a wheel as large as a human foot could not provision the wheelful of organic matter within.
形容词 adj.
  1. Full of, or bearing, wheels; wheeled.
    — The Wheelman for June has just reached us, and we can only say that it seems to be rolling all around the country, and that it is the most wheelful, as well as the wheeliest periodical we ever saw.

词形变化

more wheelful comparative most wheelful superlative wheelfuls plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂
Proto-Germanic *hweulō
Old English hwēol
Middle English whel
English wheel
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós
Proto-Germanic *fullaz
Proto-Germanic *-fullaz
Old English -ful
Middle English -ful
English -ful
English wheelful
From wheel + -ful.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂
Proto-Germanic *hweulō
Old English hwēol
Middle English whel
English wheel
English -ful
English wheelful
From wheel + -ful. Compare handful.
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