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cycled | cycler |

As a verb cycled

is past tense of cycle.

As a noun cycler is

anything with a cyclic (repetitious) behaviour. Something that cycles between different states.

cycled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (cycle)

    • cycle

    English

    (wikipedia cycle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
  • * Burke
    • Wages to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years.
  • A complete rotation of anything.
  • A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
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  • The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
  • (music) 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.
  • A series of poems, songs or other works of art.
  • A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
    • the spin cycle
  • 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.
  • (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
  • (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
  • An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
    • (Milton)
    (Burke)
  • An age; a long period of time.
  • * Tennyson
    • Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
  • An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
  • * Evelyn
    • We present our gardeners with a complete cycle of what is requisite to be done throughout every month of the year.
  • (botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.
    • a cycle or set of leaves
    (Gray)

    Usage notes

    * (aviation sense) One take-off and landing of an aircraft is a (term), referring to a (term) which places stresses on the fuselage. * (baseball sense) As in the example sentence, one is usually said to (term). However, other uses also occur, such as (term) and (term).

    Derived terms

    * cycle path * cyclic * acyclic

    Verb

    (cycl)
  • To ride a bicycle or other .
  • To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
  • (electronics) To turn power off and back on
    • Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
  • (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.

    Related terms

    * recycle

    Anagrams

    * ----

    cycler

    English

    Etymology 1

    From ;

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything with a cyclic (repetitious) behaviour. Something that s between different states.
    • The battery cycler allows us to switch between batteries as each one runs out.
  • (astronomy) An orbit that approaches two astronomical bodies on a regular basis.
    • The Earth-Mars cycler s could potentially be used for transporting people between the two planets.
  • (by extension) A, usually man-made, object that follows such an orbit.
    • If we had more than one cycler then the length of time between the outbound and inbound journeys could be reduced to a few months.
  • (psychology, euphemistic) a person with bipolar disorder, often used when comparing the speed of mood swings.
    • My son's a fast cycler which is much harder for people to understand.
  • (medicine) A device for performing dialysis; for mechanically purifying blood
    • The only issue I have had with my cycler was when the cat started chewing on the connecting line.
  • (biochemistry) a thermal cycler; a machine for creating multiple copies of DNA sequences.
    • We took samples from the tubes in the cycler at regular intervals
  • (computing) a task in a cycle of tasks where the status of being active task is passed around the loop.
    • When the last cycler has run for 200ms we pass control back to the first one and begin again.

    Etymology 2

    From ; someone that uses a cycle (or bicycle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) cyclist
    • There is nothing more annoying than a rogue cycler ignoring the other road users.

    External links

    * ("cycler" on Wikipedia)