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cycle

Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ.kəl/

The English word “cycle” has 20 meanings listed here.

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.
  13. One entire round in a circle or a spire.
  14. A discharge of a taser.
  15. One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.
  16. 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.
  17. A hertz; cycle per second.

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

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).

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