cycle

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

cycles

1.
An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
the cycle of the seasons, or of the year
2.
A complete rotation of anything.
3.
A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
electoral cycle menstrual cycle news cycle
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.
The Ring of the Nibelung is a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner.
6.
A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
Put the washing in on a warm cycle.
the spin cycle
7.
(baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
Jones hit for the cycle in the game.
8.
(graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
9.
(topology, algebraic topology) 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.

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verb

V_es/s

cycles

V_ing/Gerund

cycling

V_ed/pp

cycled

1.
To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
2.
(electronics) To turn power off and back on
Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
3.
(ice hockey) 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.
4.
To ride a bicycle or other cycle.

Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English cicle (fixed length period of years), from cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (circle), from *kúklos, *kʷókʷlos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (circle, wheel).