wheelhouse

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noun

Plural noun:

wheelhouseswheel housewheel-house

1.
A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the water wheel of a mill.
2.
(archaeology) A prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland, characteristically including an outer wall within which a circle of stone piers (resembling the spokes of a wheel) form the basis for lintel arches supporting corbelled roofing with a hearth at the hub.
3.
(Canada, US, broadly)(Canada, US, baseball, by extension from sense 1.2) A pitch location which is favourable to the hitter.
The pitch was right in his wheelhouse, and he hit a grand slam.
4.
(Canada, US, figuratively)A person's area of authority or expertise.
Horse viruses are in Pat’s wheelhouse.
Đồng nghĩa: bailiwick, domain
5.
(Canada, US, figuratively)A set of skills necessitated by a situation.
Ever since I started taking antipsychotics, managing my mental health has been a whole different wheelhouse.

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bailiwick domainwheel archwheel wellpilothousepaddle box

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wheel house Sense 3 (“(baseball) a pitch location which is favourable to the hitter”) references the fact that a vessel is controlled from its wheelhouse (sense 1.2), and sense 4 (“a person’s area of authority or expertise”) is a figurative use of sense 3.