Cycle

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) A series of poems, songs or other works of art
 * 5) A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
 * Put the washing in on a warm cycle.
 * 1) A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle; or, motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels, such as a motorbike, motorcycle, motorized tricycle, or motortrike.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1)  A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.

Derived terms

 * cyclic
 * acyclic

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
 * Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
 * 1)  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.

Related terms

 * recycle

Adjectives
irregular; uncharted; business; elemental; repetitious; past; never-failing; comprehensive; pleasant; distinct; imaginary; endless; unvarying; normal.

Verbs
approve —; avert —; complete —; compute —; continue in —; end —; form —; move in —; obviate —; pass through —; recog¬nize —; recur during —; regain during —; resume —; revolve in —; span —; study —; — gauges; — indicates; — possesses; — promises; — represents.

Thesaurus
AC, AF, CPS, DC, EHF, HF, Hz, Indian file, Kekule formula, MF, O, Platonic year, RF, SHF, UHF, VHF, VLF, absorption current, active current, aeon, age, alternate, alternating current, ambit, annular muscle, annulus, annus magnus, areola, array, arsis, articulation, atomic cluster, audio frequency, aureole, bank, be here again, beat, benzene ring, bicycle, bicycle-built-for-two, bike, bout, branched chain, bus, buzz, carrier frequency, catch a train, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chaplet, chauffeur, chopper, circle, circuit, circuiteer, circulate, circumambulate, circumference, circummigrate, circumnavigate, circumvent, circus, close the circle, closed chain, closed circle, come again, come and go, come around, come full circle, come round, come round again, come up again, compass, compound radical, concatenation, conduction current, connection, consecution, continuum, convection current, corona, coronet, course, crown, cycle of indiction, cycles, date, day, delta current, descent, describe a circle, diadem, diastole, dielectric displacement current, direct current, discus, disk, displacement current, downbeat, drive, drone, eddy current, electric current, electric stream, emission current, encircle, encompass, endless belt, endless round, entrain, eternal return, exciting current, extremely high frequency, fairy ring, file, filiation, flank, free alternating current, frequency, frequency spectrum, full circle, galvanic current, gamut, garland, generation, girdle, girdle the globe, glory, go about, go around, go by rail, go round, go the round, gradation, great year, gyre, halo, hertz, heterocycle, high frequency, high-frequency current, homocycle, hum, idle current, indiction, induced current, induction current, intermediate frequency, intermit, ionization current, iron, joyride, juice, kilocycles, kilohertz, lap, lasso, lattice, line, lineage, logical circle, loop, looplet, low frequency, low-frequency current, lower frequencies, magic circle, magnetizing current, make a circuit, make a train, medium frequency, megacycles, megahertz, minibike, molecule, monocycle, monotone, motocycle, motor, motorbike, motorcycle, multiphase current, nexus, noose, orbit, oscillate, pattern, pedal, pedicab, pendulum, periodicity, pig, plenum, powder train, progression, pulsate, pulsating direct current, pulse, queue, radical, radio frequency, radius, range, rank, reactive current, reappear, recur, recurrence, recycle, reoccur, repeat, reticulation, return, revolution, revolve, ride, ring, road-bike, roll around, rondelle, rotary current, rotate, rotation, round, round trip, roundel, rounds, routine, row, run, saucer, scale, scooter, sequel, sequence, series, side chain, sidewalk bike, simple radical, single file, single-phase alternating current, skirt, space-lattice, spark frequency, spectrum, spell, sphincter, spiral, straight chain, stray current, string, succession, superhigh frequency, surround, swath, systole, take a joyride, tandem, taxi, thermionic current, thermoelectric current, thesis, thread, three-phase alternating current, tier, time, tour, trail bike, train, tricycle, trike, turn, two-wheeler, ultrahigh frequency, undulate, upbeat, upper frequencies, velocipede, very high frequency, very low frequency, vicious circle, voltaic current, walk, watt current, wheel, wheel around, windrow, wreath

Etymology
From cyclus:, from  κύκλος:, reduplicated form of a. Cognates include Sanskrit चक्र:, Latin colus:, Old English hweol: (English wheel:), English ancillary:

Noun

 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: cyklus, kredsløb
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ciklo
 * Estonian: tsükkel
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: κύκλος (kyklos or kiklos) (el)
 * Ido: ciklo
 * Irish: timthriall


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 周期
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: cikls
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ciclu, rotație
 * Russian: цикл
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: цикъл
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ciklo
 * Estonian: tsükkel
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: κύκλος (kyklos or kiklos) (el)
 * Hebrew:
 * Ido: ciklo


 * Irish: timthriall
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 周期
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: cikls
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ciclu
 * Russian: цикл
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: цикъл
 * Czech:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:


 * German:
 * Greek: κύκλος (kyklos or kiklos) (el)
 * Romanian: ciclu
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: цикъл
 * Danish: (vaske)-program
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * German:
 * Latvian: cikls
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: cyclo- (only used in compounds: cyclo-sport), rijwiel (usually a bicycle)


 * Finnish: -pyörä, polkupyörä
 * French:
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:

Verb

 * Bulgarian: карам колело
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 騎車, 骑车, 騎自行車, 骑自行车
 * Danish: cykle, køre på cykel
 * Dutch: fietsen, rijden (general)
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ajaa polkupyörällä, pyöräillä, polkupyöräillä


 * French: faire du vélo
 * German:
 * Hebrew: נסע באופניים
 * Japanese: 自転車に乗る
 * Russian: ездить на велосипеде, ехать на велосипеде , кататься на велосипеде
 * Swedish:


 * French: passer par un cycle


 * Danish: tænde for/slå til (turn on), slukke for/slå fra (turn off)


 * Dutch: in- en uitschakelen, aan- en uit-/afzetten

Anagrams

 * leccy

Etymology
From cyclus.

Noun

 * 1) cycle