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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Legal highs: A new prescription
, passage=No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.}}
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.
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A series of poems, songs or other works of art.
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A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
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- 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.
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(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.
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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
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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
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episode Noun
( en noun)
An incident or action standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.
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* {{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, chapter=10/6, title= The Norwich Victims
, passage=The Attorney-General, however, had used this episode , which Martin in retrospect had felt to be a blot on the scutcheon, merely to emphasise the intelligence and resource of the prisoner.}}
An installment of a drama told in parts, as in a TV series.
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*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 20, author=Nathan Rabin
, title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)
, work=The Onion AV Club
, passage=We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.}}
Derived terms
* episodic
* episodical
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