cycle

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Related terms 1.4.2 Translations 1.5 Anagrams 2 French 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Etymology 2.3 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• Pronunciation: IPA: /saɪkəl/
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• Rhymes: -aɪkəl,

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Noun

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) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player 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

[edit] Derived terms

• cyclic
• acyclic

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[edit] Verb

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.

[edit] Related terms

• recycle

[edit] Translations

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: ccely
• leccy

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[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

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• IPA: /sikl/, SAMPA: /sikl/

[edit] Etymology

From Late Latin cyclus.

[edit] Noun

cycle m. (plural cycles)

1. cycle