cycle

Meaning

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

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

Synonyms

bicycle

🚲

bike

🚲

period

round

rotation

loop

➿

circle

⭕

series

circulation

wheel

🛞

turn

revolution

velocipede

motorcycle

🏍️

rotate

rhythm

circulate

hertz

orbit

Hz

oscillation

pedal

circuit

push-bike

duration

frequency

wave

👋

cps

motorbike

🏍️

cycle per second

term

recycle

♻️

walk

🚶

installment

innings

circumvent

group

circumnavigate

go around

pivot

periodicity

faction

era

anniversary

passage

episode

pass

pan

epicycle

orb

Translations

cycle

ciclo

Zyklus

ciclo

cyclus

bicicletta

🚲

ciclo

κύκλος

Kreislauf

➿

bicyclette

🚲

cicle

Periode

ποδήλατο

vélo

🚲

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsaɪ.kəl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: cicle

In summary

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, and wheel (see there for more).

Sentences

Applications include power generation for combined cycle or peak power .