cycles

/หˆsaษชkษ™lz/

IPA: /S AY1 K AH0 L Z/

noun
  1. 1

    An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.

    โ€œthe cycle of the seasons, or of the yearโ€

  2. 2

    A complete rotation of anything.

  3. 3

    A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.

    โ€œelectoral cycleโ€

  4. 4

    The members of the sequence formed by such a process.

  5. 5

    In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class.

    โ€œThe interval cycle C4 consists of the pitch classes 0, 4 and 8; when starting on E, it is realised as the pitches E, G# and C.โ€

  6. 6

    A series of poems, songs or other works of art.

    โ€œThe "Ring of the Nibelung" is a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner.โ€

  7. 7

    A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.

    โ€œPut the washing in on a warm cycle.โ€

  8. 8

    A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.

  9. 9

    A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.

    โ€œJones hit for the cycle in the game.โ€

  10. 10

    A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.

  11. 11

    (algebraic topology) A chain whose boundary is zero.

  12. 12

    An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.

  13. 13

    An age; a long period of time.

  14. 14

    An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.

  15. 15

    One entire round in a circle or a spire.

    โ€œa cycle or set of leavesโ€

  16. 16

    A discharge of a taser.

verb
  1. 1

    To ride a bicycle or other cycle.

  2. 2

    To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.

  3. 3

    To turn power off and back on

    โ€œAvoid cycling the device unnecessarily.โ€

  4. 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

    โ€œThey have their cycling game going tonight.โ€

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cycle, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cycles