cycle
Forms
- Plural
- cycles
- present (v1)
- cycle
- past (v2)
- cycled
- past participle (v3)
- cycled
- present participle
- cycling
- 3rd person singular
- cycles
Definitions
1.An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
- We're going to cycle to the lake tomorrow.
2.A complete rotation of anything.
- We're going to cycle to the lake tomorrow.
3.A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
- We're going to cycle to the lake tomorrow.
4.The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
- We're going to cycle to the lake tomorrow.
1.To turn power off and back on
- Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
2.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.
3.To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
- When my wife and I heard a plaintive whinny from our laundry room the other day, we knew that our old dryer had cycled its last load.
4.To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
- I cycled the three miles each morning between hedges draped with spangled cobwebs and berried bryony.
- Sometimes I would cycle over to Beckenham to watch the boat trains and Kent Coast expresses of the London, Chatham & Dover Railway, which seemed very superior to its future partner.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2124
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Synonyms
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”).