Rim vs Cycle - What's the difference?
rim | cycle |
To form a rim on.
To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit
(label) To roll around a rim.
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.}}
(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
An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
* Burke
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= 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.
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.
An age; a long period of time.
* Tennyson
An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
* Evelyn
(botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.
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
(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
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) .See also
* (wheel rim) mag wheel, alloy wheelVerb
(transitive)- Palm trees rim the beach.
- A walking path rims the island.
- 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)Etymology 3
From a variation of ream.Verb
(rimm)- 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)- the cycle of the seasons, or of the year
- Wages to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years.
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- the spin cycle
- (Milton)
- (Burke)
- Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
- We present our gardeners with a complete cycle of what is requisite to be done throughout every month of the year.
- 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 * acyclicVerb
(cycl)- Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
- They have their cycling game going tonight.