Spray and Wheel

Spray

Spray noun - Water in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall.

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Wheel and spray are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wheel" instead a noun "Spray".

Nearby Words: sprayed, sprayer, spraying

Wheel noun - A rapid turning about on an axis or central point.

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Spray and wheel are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Spray" instead a noun "Wheel".

Nearby Words: wheeled, wheeling, wheeler

old	old spray	old wheel
normal	normal spray	normal wheel
infinite	infinite spray	infinite wheel
single	single spray	single wheel
Other adjectives: open, small, massive, large, huge, little, tiny, new, gigantic, random, giant, red.

And then there's the alien race mentioned which invented the deodorant spray before the wheel, so at least for some time, they'd fit this trope.

Source: Aliens Never Invented the Wheel
Ford reveals the way to defeat Bill, using spray paint to sketch on the floor a familiar symbol; the zodiac wheel seen at the beginning of every episode!

Source: Recap / Gravity Falls S 2 E 20 Weirdmageddon Part 3 Take Back The Falls
The villain of the episode is able to casually spray gasoline everywhere (you can only do this with a diesel pump, which she is not using), and the shutoff valve is a ridiculously hard to turn wheel, instead of the very simple and faster button which all modern stations use.

Source: Series / Warehouse 13

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