Dictionary Definition
cycle
Noun
1 an interval during which a recurring sequence
of events occurs; "the neverending cycle of the seasons" [syn:
rhythm, round]
2 a series of poems or songs on the same theme;
"schubert's song cycles"
3 a periodically repeated sequence of events; "a
cycle of reprisal and retaliation"
4 the unit of frequency; one Hertz has a periodic
interval of one second [syn: Hertz, Hz, cycle per
second, cycles/second,
cps]
5 a single complete execution of a periodically
repeated phenomenon; "a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons"
[syn: oscillation]
Verb
1 cause to go through a recurring sequence;
"cycle thge laundry in this washing program"
2 pass through a cycle; "This machine
automatically cycles"
3 ride a motorcycle [syn: motorcycle]
5 recur in repeating sequences
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Pronunciation: /saikl/
- Rhymes: -aɪkəl,
Noun
- 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.
- A series of poems, songs or other works of art
- A programme/program on a washing machine, dishwasher, etc.
- Put the washing in on a warm cycle.
- 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).
- 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.
- a closed (directed) walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed
Translations
complete rotation
process
series of poems etc.
program on a washing machine
vehicle
- Danish: cykel
- Dutch: cyclo- (only used in compounds: cyclo-sport), rijwiel (usually a bicycle)
- Finnish: -pyörä (in compounds), polkupyörä
- French: cycle
- Swedish: cykel
graph theory: closed (directed) walk or path
- Czech: cyklus
Verb
- To ride a cycle.
- To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
- 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 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.
Related terms
Translations
to ride a cycle
- Danish: cykle, køre på cykel
- Dutch: fietsen, rijden (general)
- Finnish: ajaa polkupyörällä, pyöräillä, polkupyöräillä
- Hebrew: לנסוע באופניים [linsoa beofanaim]
- Swedish: cykla
to go through a cycle or to put through a cycle
- French: passer par un cycle
to turn power off and back on
- Danish: tænde for/slå til (turn on), slukke for/slå fra (turn off)
- Dutch: in- en uitschakelen, aan- en uit-/afzetten
French
Pronunciation
- /sikl/
- SAMPA: /sikl/
Etymology
From cyclus.Noun
fr-noun mExtensive Definition
Cycle or Cyclic may refer to:
- Motorcycle
- Bicycle
- Cycling, the act of riding a bicycle
- -cycle, a suffix in the English language
In music:
- Cycle (music), a section of a piece that is repeated or repeatable
- Cyclic form, a technique of construction involving multiple sections or movements
- Cycles (The Doobie Brothers album)
- Cycles (Frank Sinatra album)
In other uses:
- Cycle (mathematics), into which any permutation may be decomposed
- Cycle (graph theory)
- Cycle (baseball), a single, double, triple, and home run in a single game of baseball
- Cycle (film), a 2008 Malayalam film
- Cyclic compound, a chemical compound in which a series of carbon atoms form a loop
- Epic Cycle, a set of ancient Greek epic poems about the Trojan War
- Menstrual cycle, a 28 day long cycle of physiologic changes that occurs in reproductive-age females
- Fenian Cycle
See also
- Hodge cycle, a particular kind of homology class in algebra
- Duty cycle in electronics and telecommunication
- Instruction cycle, in computers
cycle in Czech: Cyklus
cycle in German: Kreislauf
cycle in French: Cycle
cycle in Hungarian: Ciklus
cycle in Japanese: サイクル
cycle in Polish: Cykl
cycle in Russian: Цикл
cycle in Simple English: Cycle
cycle in Slovak: Cyklus
cycle in Ukrainian: Цикл
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
AC,
AF, CPS, DC, EHF, HF, Hz, Indian file, Kekule formula,
MF, O, Platonic year, RF, SHF, UHF, VHF, VLF, absorption current, active
current, aeon, age, alternate, alternating
current, ambit, annular
muscle, annulus, annus
magnus, areola, array, arsis, articulation, atomic
cluster, audio frequency, aureole, bank, be here again, beat, benzene ring, bicycle, bicycle-built-for-two,
bike, bout, branched chain, bus, buzz, carrier frequency, catch a
train, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chaplet, chauffeur, chopper, circle, circuit, circuiteer, circulate, circumambulate, circumference, circummigrate, circumnavigate, circumvent, circus, close the circle, closed
chain, closed circle, come again, come and go, come around, come
full circle, come round, come round again, come up again, compass, compound radical,
concatenation,
conduction current, connection, consecution, continuum, convection current,
corona, coronet, course, crown, cycle of indiction,
cycles, date, day, delta current, descent, describe a circle,
diadem, diastole, dielectric
displacement current, direct current, discus, disk, displacement current,
downbeat, drive, drone, eddy current, electric
current, electric stream, emission current, encircle, encompass, endless belt,
endless round, entrain,
eternal return, exciting current, extremely high frequency, fairy
ring, file, filiation, flank, free alternating current,
frequency, frequency
spectrum, full circle, galvanic current, gamut, garland, generation, girdle, girdle the globe,
glory, go about, go
around, go by rail, go round, go the round, gradation, great year,
gyre, halo, hertz, heterocycle, high frequency,
high-frequency current, homocycle, hum, idle current, indiction, induced current,
induction current, intermediate frequency, intermit, ionization current,
iron, joyride, juice, kilocycles, kilohertz, lap, lasso, lattice, line, lineage, logical circle,
loop, looplet, low frequency,
low-frequency current, lower frequencies, magic circle, magnetizing
current, make a circuit, make a train, medium frequency, megacycles, megahertz, minibike, molecule, monocycle, monotone, motocycle, motor, motorbike, motorcycle, multiphase
current, nexus, noose, orbit, oscillate, pattern, pedal, pedicab, pendulum, periodicity, pig, plenum, powder train, progression, pulsate, pulsating direct
current, pulse, queue, radical, radio frequency,
radius, range, rank, reactive current, reappear, recur, recurrence, recycle, reoccur, repeat, reticulation, return, revolution, revolve, ride, ring, road-bike, roll around,
rondelle, rotary
current, rotate, rotation, round, round trip, roundel, rounds, routine, row, run, saucer, scale, scooter, sequel, sequence, series, side chain, sidewalk
bike, simple radical, single file, single-phase alternating
current, skirt,
space-lattice, spark frequency, spectrum, spell, sphincter, spiral, straight chain, stray
current, string, succession, superhigh
frequency, surround,
swath, systole, take a joyride,
tandem, taxi, thermionic current,
thermoelectric current, thesis, thread, three-phase alternating
current, tier, time, tour, trail bike, train, tricycle, trike, turn, two-wheeler, ultrahigh
frequency, undulate,
upbeat, upper
frequencies, velocipede, very high
frequency, very low frequency, vicious circle, voltaic current,
walk, watt current,
wheel, wheel around,
windrow, wreath