Cyclic vs Recycle - What's the difference?
cyclic | recycle |
Characterized by, or moving in cycles, or happening at regular intervals
(chemistry) Of a compound having chains of atoms arranged in a ring
(botany) Having parts arranged in a whorl
(mathematics, of a group) being generated by only one element
(geometry, of a polygon) able to be inscribed in a circle
To break down and reuse component materials.
To reuse as a whole.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
To collect or place in a bin for recycling.
(ergative) To be recycled.
As an adjective cyclic
is characterized by, or moving in cycles, or happening at regular intervals.As a verb recycle is
.cyclic
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The weather had a cyclic pattern of rain and sun.
- Benzene and cyclohexane are both cyclic compounds.
Derived terms
* cyclic chorus * cyclic poetrecycle
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Verb
(Recycling) (recycl)- Recycled paper.
- Recycled plastic.
- Jokes are recycled so frequently, it’s as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.
- Sulfur recycles in the sulfur cycle.