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Rim vs Cycle - What's the difference?

rim | cycle |

As a proper noun rim

is rome (city).

As a noun cycle is

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

As a verb cycle is

to ride a bicycle or other.

rim

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) rim, rym, rime, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • An edge around something, especially when circular.
  • wheelrim
  • See also
    * (wheel rim) mag wheel, alloy wheel

    Verb

    (transitive)
  • To form a rim on.
  • To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit
  • Palm trees rim the beach.
    A walking path rims the island.
  • (label) To roll around a rim.
  • The golf ball rimmed the cup.
    The basketball rimmed in and out.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) rim, rym, ryme, reme, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A membrane.
  • The membrane enclosing the intestines; the peritoneum, hence loosely, the intestines; the lower part of the abdomen; belly.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1599, author=Shakespeare, title=King Henry V, chapter=Act IV, scene IV - Pistol to a captured French soldier from whom he wants a ransom and whom he does not understand
  • , passage=Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys; / Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat / In drops of crimson blood.}}

    Etymology 3

    From a variation of ream.

    Verb

    (rimm)
  • (label) to lick the anus of a partner as part of the sexual act.
  • * 2008 , Lexy Harper, Bedtime Erotica for Freaks (Like Me) , page 216
  • When she started thrusting her hips back against his finger, he turned her over and rimmed her asshole as he fingered her clit.

    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.
  • * {{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.
  • 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.

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