cycle

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Etymology

From Late Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kyklos).

Noun

Singular
cycle

Plural
cycles

cycle (plural cycles)

  1. An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
  2. A complete rotation of anything.
  3. A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
  4. A series of poems, songs or other works of art
  5. A programme/program on a washing machine, dishwasher, etc.
    Put the washing in on a warm cycle.
  6. 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).
  7. (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.
  8. (graph theory) a closed (directed) walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed

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Verb

Infinitive
to cycle

Third person singular
cycles

Simple past
cycled

Past participle
cycled

Present participle
cycling

to cycle (third-person singular simple present cycles, present participle cycling, simple past and past participle cycled)

  1. To ride a cycle.
  2. To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
  3. (electronics) To turn power off and back on
    Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
  4. (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.

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Etymology

From Late Latin cyclus.

Noun

cycle m. (plural cycles)

  1. cycle
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