water wheel

water wheel

See also: waterwheel

English

Alternative forms

• waterwheel
• water-wheel

Noun

water wheel (plural water wheels)

1. A wheel, propelled by running or falling water, used to power machinery.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 278:

     "Yes, yes, I'll tell you the road directly, it's it's straight on through the wood till you come to the big water-wheel!"

   • 2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:

     Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.

2. A wheel with buckets used to raise water.

Synonyms

• (wheel with buckets): noria

Translations

wheel propelled by water

Afrikaans: waterwiel Belarusian: вадзяное кола n (vadzjanóje kóla) Bulgarian: водно колело n (vodno kolelo) Catalan: roda hidràulica f Chinese: Mandarin: 水車／水车 (zh) (shuǐchē), 水輪／水轮 (zh) (shuǐlún) Czech: vodní kolo n Danish: møllehjul Dutch: waterrad (nl) Esperanto: akvorado Finnish: vesipyörä (fi) French: roue à aubes (fr) f Galician: rodicio m Georgian: წყლის ბორბალი (c̣q̇lis borbali) German: Wasserrad (de) n Hebrew: גלגל מים‎ Hindi: पनचक्की (hi) (pancakkī) Hunsrik: Wasserraat n Icelandic: vatnshjól Indonesian: kincir air (id) Italian: bindolo (it) m, ruota idraulica f Japanese: 水車 (ja) (すいしゃ, suisha) Korean: 수차 (ko) (sucha) Latvian: ūdensrats Lithuanian: vandens ratas Norwegian: vannhjul Old English: hlædhwēol n, hlædtrendel m Ottoman Turkish: طولاب‎ (dolab) Persian: چرخ آبی‎ Polish: koło wodne (pl) n Portuguese: roda de água f Russian: водяно́е колесо́ (ru) n (vodjanóje kolesó) Serbo-Croatian: vodeničko kolo n Slovak: vodné koleso n Spanish: rueda hidráulica f Swedish: vattenhjul (sv) Tagalog: lagumba Turkish: su çarkı Ukrainian: водяне колесо n (vodjane koleso) Vietnamese: bánh xe nước

wheel to raise water

Azerbaijani: dolab Chinese: Mandarin: 水輪／水轮 (zh) (shuǐlún) Finnish: vesipyörä (fi) Indonesian: kincir air (id) Persian: دولابه‎

See also

• turbine