cycle
nounEtymology
From Middle English cicle (“fixed length period of years”), from Late Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”), from Proto-Hellenic *kúklos, *kʷókʷlos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“circle, wheel”). Doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, chukker, cyclus, kike, and wheel (see there for more).
- derived from *kʷékʷlos✻
- derived from κύκλος
- derived from cyclus
Definitions
An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
- the cycle of the seasons, or of the year
- VVages have been tvvice raiſed in my time, and they bear a full proportion, or even a greater than formerly, to the medium of proviſion during the laſt bad cycle of tvventy years.
A complete rotation of anything.
A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
- electoral cycle menstrual cycle news cycle
- Ice is one of a slate of young, idealistic candidates for Move Forward who have joined mainstream politics in the hope that this election allows Thailand to break the cycle of military coups […]
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The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.
- The Ring of the Nibelung is a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner.
A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
- Put the washing in on a warm cycle.
- the spin cycle
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.
A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
A chain whose boundary is zero.
An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens
An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
- With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb
- There appears to be no absolute cycle in the universe; all is change and progression. No planet ever revolves twice precisely in the same orbit.
An age
An age; a long period of time.
- Thro' the shadow of the world we sweep into the younger day: / Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
An orderly list for a given time
An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
- [H]ere we endeavour to preſent our Gard'ners with a compleat Cycle of what is requiſite to be done throughout every Moneth of the Year: […]
One entire round in a circle or a spire.
- a cycle or set of leaves
A discharge of a taser.
- Officers have made the mistake of applying many Taser cycles, expecting the suspect to relent.
One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places…
One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.
A scheduled period of time of weeks or months wherein a performance-enhancing substance…
A scheduled period of time of weeks or months wherein a performance-enhancing substance or, by extension, supplement is applied, to be followed by another one where it is not or the dosage is lower.
- The deterioration of his physique may be a result of his being off cycle.
A hertz
A hertz; cycle per second.
To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
- When my wife and I heard a plaintive whinny from our laundry room the other day, we knew that our old dryer had cycled its last load.
To turn power off and back on
- Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing…
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.
A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle…
A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
- Sometimes I would cycle over to Beckenham to watch the boat trains and Kent Coast expresses of the London, Chatham & Dover Railway, which seemed very superior to its future partner.
- I cycled the three miles each morning between hedges draped with spangled cobwebs and berried bryony.
- Well, during our short staycation at Humberston Fitties, just south of Cleethorpes, we cycled through the very unspoilt Lincolnshire Wolds, which are by no means flat and boring as conventional wisdom about the county suggests.
The neighborhood
- neighborbicycle
- neighborcycle clip
- neighborcycle lane
- neighborcycle path
- neighborcycle rack
- neighborcycle rickshaw
- neighborcycle track
- neighborcycleway
- neighbormotorcycle
- neighborquadricycle
- neighbortricycle
- neighborunicycle
Derived
acyclic, cyclase, cyclecar, cycle chord, cycledom, cycle group, cycleman, cyclene, cycle of fifths, cycle per second, cycle polo, cycle shorts, cycle sort, cycle sport, cycle threshold, cycle time, cyclewear, cyclic, cyclin, cyclism, cyclize, cyclogaine, cyclol, decycle, downcycle, in cycle, intercycle, intracycle, monocycle, motor-cycle, multicycle, outcycle, oxacycle, pentacycle, pericycle, photocycle, polycycle, power-cycle, push-cycle, sixty cycle hum · +11 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at cycle. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at cycle. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at cycle
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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