reinvent the wheel
To do work unnecessarily when it has already been done satisfactorily by others; to attempt to devise a solution to a problem when a solution already exists.
The trading of information so that people need not reinvent the wheel.
noun
A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
I hear the noise about thy keel; I hear the bell struck in the night: I see the cabin-window bright; I see the sailor at the wheel.
A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
Turn, turn, my wheel! This earthen jar / A touch can make, a touch can mar.
verb
To roll along on wheels.
Wheel that trolley over here, would you?
Why should we confine a body of men to making laws, when so many of them might be more usefully employed in wheeling barrows?
To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
She wheeled the dung in the wheelbarrow Along a stretch of road; But she always ran away and left Her not-nice load,
Bob was wheeling the baby up and down, Mabel watching him, hawk-eyed, as though she suspected him of harboring intentions of tipping the cab over.
To ride a bicycle or tricycle.
To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
Your daughter, if you have not given her leave, I say again, hath made a gross revolt; Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes In an extravagant and wheeling stranger Of here and every where.
The dog screamed, and, wheeling in terror, galloped headlong in a new direction.
To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
[…] he did as Menelaus had said, and set off running as soon as he had given his armour to a comrade, Laodocus, who was wheeling his horses round, close beside him.
Then wheeling his black steed suddenly, he raced away before the dazed soldiers could get their wits together to send a shower of arrows after him.