cycle
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English
Pronunciation
- Pronunciation: /saikl/
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- Rhymes: -aɪkəl,
Etymology
From Late Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kyklos).
Noun
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Plural |
cycle (plural cycles)
- An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
- A complete rotation of anything.
- A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
- A series of poems, songs or other works of art
- A programme/program on a washing machine, dishwasher, etc.
- Put the washing in on a warm cycle.
- A generic term for a pedal-powered vehicle (unicycles, bicycles and tricycles), or motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels (motorbike, motorcycle, motorized tricycle, motortrike).
- (baseball) When a batter hits a single, a double, a triple, and a homer in the same game
- Jones hit for the cycle in the game.
- (graph theory) a closed (directed) walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed
Derived terms
Translations
complete rotation
process
series of poems etc.
program on a washing machine
vehicle
Verb
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Third person singular |
Simple past |
Past participle |
Present participle |
to cycle (third-person singular simple present cycles, present participle cycling, simple past and past participle cycled)
- To ride a cycle.
- To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
- (electronics) To turn power off and back on
- Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
- (ice hockey) To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal
- They have their cycling game going tonight.
Related terms
Translations
to ride a cycle
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to go through a cycle or to put through a cycle
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to turn power off and back on
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French
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Late Latin cyclus.
Noun
cycle m. (plural cycles)
