wheelchair

CEFRB1

/ˈwiːlt͡ʃɛə(ɹ)/

noun · verb

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A chair with wheels used by someone who cannot walk easily.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Any device involving wheels designed to assist a non-human animal with locomotion.

Examples

  • They developed a special computer system and fixed it to his wheelchair.

  • Woman in a wheelchair holes up in supermarket.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈ(h)wilt͡ʃɛɹ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Designed for use by wheelchairbound people.

  2. A chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. to move using a wheelchair

More examples

In context

  • To build the wheelchair, Dale Ryder attached wheels from a toy plane to an axle that fits over Mrs. T’s shell.

  • "And there are aspirations that we must rightly meet - people travelling in a wheelchair should be able to get on and off the train."

  • Almost all of them learned wheelchairing and all learned to manage to eat by themselves.

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Origin

noun

From wheel + chair.