Meaning

5 senses
  1. A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.

    Speiche

    спи́цаspíca

    спи́цяspýcja, шпи́цяšpýcja

    support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim

  2. A projecting handle of a steering wheel.

  3. A rung of a ladder.

    one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder

  4. A stick inserted into the wheel of a vehicle to keep the wheel from turning.

  5. One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.

Examples

9 sentences
  1. One of the spokes on my bicycle is broken.

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  2. Don't put your hands in the spokes.

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  3. One of my bike's spokes has bust.

    deAn meinem Fahrrad ist eine Speiche gerissen.

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  4. She's always putting spokes in other people's wheels.

    ruОна вечно вставляет всем палки в колеса.

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  5. One of the spokes on my bike has gone.

    deAn meinem Fahrrad ist eine Speiche gerissen.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
part of a wheel:
Русский
By meaning 1
part of a wheel:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
part of a wheel:

Origin

From Middle English spoke, from Old English spāca, from Proto-West Germanic *spaikā, from

From Middle English spoke, from Old English spāca, from Proto-West Germanic *spaikā, from Proto-Germanic *spaikō. Compare Scots spaik (“spoke”), Dutch spaak and English spike.

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Forms

plural: spokes
Singularspoke
Pluralspokes

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim:wheel spokeradius
  • one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder:rundlerung

Word family

18 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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