CYCLE

bicycle, bike, wheel, cycle

(noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals

cycle, oscillation

(noun) a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon; “a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons”

cycle

(noun) a periodically repeated sequence of events; “a cycle of reprisal and retaliation”

cycle

(noun) a series of poems or songs on the same theme; “Schubert’s song cycles”

hertz, Hz, cycle per second, cycles, second, cps, cycle

(noun) the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz)

cycle, rhythm, round

(noun) an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs; “the never-ending cycle of the seasons”

cycle

(verb) recur in repeating sequences

bicycle, cycle, bike, pedal, wheel

(verb) ride a bicycle

motorbike, motorcycle, cycle

(verb) ride a motorcycle

cycle

(verb) pass through a cycle; “This machine automatically cycles”

cycle

(verb) cause to go through a recurring sequence; “cycle the laundry in this washing program”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

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.

The members of the sequence formed by such a process.

(music) In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class.

A series of poems, songs or other works of art.

A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.

A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.

Hyponyms: motorbike, motorcycle, unicycle, bicycle, tricycle, motortrike

(baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.

(graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.

(topology, algebraic topology) A chain whose boundary is zero.

An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.

An age; a long period of time.

An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.

(botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.

(weaponry) A discharge of a taser.

Usage notes

• (aviation sense): One take-off and landing of an aircraft is a cycle, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.

• (baseball sense): As in the example sentence, one is usually said to hit for the cycle. However, other uses also occur, such as hit a cycle and complete the cycle.

Verb

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

To ride a bicycle or other cycle.

To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.

(electronics) To turn power off and back on

(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

Anagrams

• leccy

Source: Wiktionary

Cy"cle (s"k'l), n. Etym: [F. ycle, LL. cyclus, fr. Gr. cakra wheel, circle. See Wheel.]

1. An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres. Milton.

2. An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cucle of the seasons, or of the year. Wages . . . bear a full proportion . . . to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years. Burke.

3. An age; a long period of time. Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Tennyson.

4. An orderly list for a given time; a calendar. [Obs.] We . . . present our gardeners with a complete cycle of what is requisite to be done throughout every month of the year. Evelyn.

5. The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have severed as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend aof Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins.

6. (Bot.)

Definition: One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves. Gray.

7. A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede. Calippic cycle, a period of 76 years, or four Metonic cycles; -- so called from Calippus, who proposed it as an improvement on the Metonic cycle.

– Cycle of eclipses, a priod of about 6,586 days, the time of revolution of the moon's node; -- called Saros by the Chaldeans.

– Cycle of indiction, a period of 15 years, employed in Roman and ecclesiastical chronology, not founded on any astronomical period, but having reference to certain judicial acts which took place at stated epochs under the Greek emperors.

– Cycle of the moon, or Metonic cycle, a period of 19 years, after the lapse of which the new and full moon returns to the same day of the year; -- so called from Meton, who first proposed it.

– Cycle of the sun, Solar cycle, a period of 28 years, at the end of which time the days of the month return to the same days of the week. The dominical or Sunday letter follows the same order; hence the solar cycle is also called the cycle of the Sunday letter. In the Gregorian calendar the solar cycle is in general interrupted at the end of the century.

Cy"cle (s"k'l), v. i. [imp. & p.p. Cycled. (-k'ld); p.pr. & vb. n. Cycling (-kl.]

1. To pass through a cycle of changes; to recur in cycles. Tennyson. Darwin.

2. To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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