English Explanatory Dictionary

cycle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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. The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
  5. A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.
  6. A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
  7. A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
  8. A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
  9. A chain whose boundary is zero.
  10. An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
  11. An age; a long period of time.
  12. An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
verb
  1. To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
  2. To turn power off and back on
  3. 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
noun
  1. A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
  2. A bicycle.
verb
  1. To ride a bicycle or other cycle.

Pronunciation

/ˈsaɪ.kəl/ [ˈsaɪ.kɫ̩] [ˈsʌɪ.kəl] En-us-cycle.ogg /ˈsɑe.kəl/ [ˈsɑe.kɫ̩] [ˈsɑe̯.ko] [ˈsɑe̯.kʊ]

Word forms

cycle cycles cycling cycled

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).

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 cycler cyclist
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