What does ruota in Italian mean?

What is the meaning of the word ruota in Italian? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use ruota in Italian.

The word ruota in Italian means wheel, cartwheel, rotate, turn, revolve, rotate, rotate, alternate, in full flow, arrive just behind someone, be no one, do a cartwheel, spin the wheel, speak off the cuff, front wheel, flat tyre, punctured tyre, baby hatch, lotto wheel, mill wheel, ship's wheel, potter's wheel, wheel of fortune, cogwheel, spare wheel, spare tyre, hydraulic wheel, Ferris wheel, big wheel, follow on the heels of, drafting, Catherine wheel, breaking wheel. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word ruota

wheel

sostantivo femminile (elemento di veicolo)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Le ruote non devono essere oltre le linee che delimitano il parcheggio.
The wheels must not go beyond the lines marking each parking spot.

cartwheel

sostantivo femminile (movimento circolare)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
L'insegnante di ginnastica ci ha insegnato a fare la ruota.
The gymnastics teacher taught us to do cartwheels.

rotate, turn

verbo transitivo o transitivo pronominale (girare, far girare)

(transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.")
Andrea ruotò il telescopio di 180 gradi.
Andrea rotated the telescope 180 degrees.

revolve, rotate

verbo intransitivo (girare intorno)

(intransitive verb: Verb not taking a direct object--for example, "She jokes." "He has arrived.")
La luna ruota intorno alla terra.
The moon revolves around the Earth.

rotate, alternate

verbo transitivo o transitivo pronominale (avvicendare, sostituire)

(transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.")
Bisogna ruotare i giocatori per evitare gli infortuni.
It's important to rotate players so that no one gets injured.

in full flow

locuzione avverbiale (parlare: senza logica, senza fermarsi) (idiomatic)

(adverb: Describes a verb, adjective, adverb, or clause--for example, "come quickly," "very rare," "happening now," "fall down.")

arrive just behind someone

be no one

do a cartwheel

spin the wheel

speak off the cuff

(improvise)

(expression: Prepositional phrase, adverbial phrase, or other phrase or expression--for example, "behind the times," "on your own.")

front wheel

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

flat tyre, punctured tyre

sostantivo femminile (veicoli: gomma forata) (UK)

Quando ho visto la ruota bucata della mia macchina ho capito subito che si trattava della bravata di qualche ragazzino.
When I saw the flat tyre on my car I immediately realised this had been the deed of some teenager.

baby hatch

lotto wheel

mill wheel

ship's wheel

potter's wheel

wheel of fortune

cogwheel

spare wheel, spare tyre

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Ci ritrovammo con l'auto in panne e senza ruota di scorta.
We got stuck with the car broken down and no spare tyre.

hydraulic wheel

Ferris wheel, big wheel

sostantivo femminile (di luna park, ecc.)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

follow on the heels of

(figurative)

(verbal expression: Phrase with special meaning functioning as verb--for example, "put their heads together," "come to an end.")
Dopo il primo figlio, gli altri due seguirono a ruota.

drafting

(cycling)

Catherine wheel, breaking wheel

(torture)

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