cycle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
algebraic-topology
aviation
ball-games
baseball
biology
botany
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
games
government
graph-theory
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
sciences
skating
sports
tools
topology
war
weaponry
Etymology: 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).
Inflected forms:
form: cycles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cycles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cycling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cycled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cycled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A complete rotation of anything.
pos: noun
gloss: A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
pos: noun
examples: electoral cycle    menstrual cycle    news cycle
No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.
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 […]
gloss: The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
pos: noun
gloss: A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.
pos: noun
examples: The Ring of the Nibelung is a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner.
gloss: A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
pos: noun
examples: Put the washing in on a warm cycle.
the spin cycle
gloss: A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
pos: noun
examples: Jones hit for the cycle in the game.
gloss: A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
pos: noun
gloss: A chain whose boundary is zero.
pos: noun
gloss: An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An age; a long period of time.
pos: noun
examples: Thro' the shadow of the world we sweep into the younger day: / Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
gloss: An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
pos: noun
examples: [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: […]
gloss: One entire round in a circle or a spire.
pos: noun
examples: a cycle or set of leaves
gloss: A discharge of a taser.
pos: noun
examples: Officers have made the mistake of applying many Taser cycles, expecting the suspect to relent.
gloss: One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: The deterioration of his physique may be a result of his being off cycle.
gloss: A hertz; cycle per second.
pos: noun
tags: plural
usually
examples: […] the Plan incorporates in proper combination every available modern technique, including extensive electrification on the new standard high-voltage a.c. system at a frequency of 50 cycles; main-line diesel traction as a half-way house to electrification; lightweight diesel trains for secondary and branch services; and a smaller wagon fleet doing more work by the use of continuous brakes in conjunction with modernised terminals and marshalling yards.
gloss: To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To turn power off and back on
pos: verb
examples: Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
gloss: 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
pos: verb
examples: They have their cycling game going tonight.
Related words: bicycle
cycle clip
cycle lane
cycle path
cycle rack
cycle rickshaw
cycle track
cycleway
motorcycle
quadricycle
tricycle
unicycle
recycle
Derived words: 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
skycycle
two-cycle
up-cycle
cyclability
cyclable
cycle off
e-cycle
precycle
upcycle
Translations: