cycle

Betekenis (Engels)

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. 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.
6. A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.
7. A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
8. A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
9. A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
10. A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
11. A chain whose boundary is zero.
12. An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
13. An age; a long period of time.
14. An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
15. One entire round in a circle or a spire.
16. A discharge of a taser.
17. One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.
18. 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.

Verb

1. To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
2. To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
3. To turn power off and back on
4. 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

Concepten

cyclus

rijwiel

fietsen

fiets

wielrijden

kringloop

programma

rijden

stalen ros

tweewieler

velo

afzetten

in- en uitschakelen

zwijntje

regelmatige reeks

periode

pedaleren

ronddraaien

Met koppelteken als

cyc‧le

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈsaɪ.kəl/

Etymologie (Engels)

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 cyclus and wheel (see there for more).