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cycle English

Meaning cycle meaning

What does cycle mean?
Definitions in simple English

cycle Noun

— A cycle is a number of regular things that happen again and again. Right now we are in an upward-moving part of the business cycle. Although women's monthly cycles vary in length from person to person, the average length is about 28 days. Most car engines have a 4-part cycle. — A cycle is a short way of saying bicycle or motorcycle.

cycle Verb

— If you cycle somewhere, you go there by bicycle or motorcycle. The rain was falling harder than ever as I cycled home down the Banbury Road. It took me less than 7 minutes to cycle the whole trail. — If you cycle a machine, you run it through one cycle. The test will cycle the computer through ten start ups.

cycle

— noun an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs the never-ending cycle of the seasons — noun a series of poems or songs on the same theme Schubert's song cycles — noun a periodically repeated sequence of events a cycle of reprisal and retaliation — noun a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons — verb cause to go through a recurring sequence cycle the laundry in this washing program — verb pass through a cycle This machine automatically cycles — noun (= hertz) the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second — verb recur in repeating sequences — verb (= bicycle) ride a bicycle — verb (= motorcycle) ride a motorcycle — noun (= wheel) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals

Synonyms cycle synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as cycle?

cycle English » English

bike bicycle period round rotation loop circle wheel series circulation turn revolution velocipede rotate rhythm motorcycle circulate wave walk term recycle push-bike pedal oscillation orbit motorbike hertz frequency duration cycle per second cps circuit Hz wheeler twist twine turn out time constant tempo take in spread out splay spiral sphere spell span skirt skate over show short-circuit

Topics cycle topics

What do people use cycle to talk about?
Physical actions Move Travel Travel by land

Vehicle
Physical actions Move Move in a direction

Move in a circle
Physical actions Arrange

Organize
States Time Relative time

Order, sequence
States Time Relative time Order, sequence

Alternate
Person

Life
Person Body Internal organs

Female organs

Conjugation cycle conjugation

How do you conjugate cycle?

cycle · verb

Examples cycle examples

How do I use cycle in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I cycle to work.
Sometimes I walk home from work and sometimes I cycle, because I live close to where I work.
I think it'd be fun to cycle around Australia.
Forests regulate the water cycle and take away harmful carbon dioxide.
Usually I cycle or get the bus to work.
Fashion is a vicious cycle.
Cycle lanes are everywhere!
It's a vicious cycle.
Did Tom remember to add fabric softener to the rinse cycle?
A business cycle is a recurring succession of periods of prosperity and periods of depression.
My menstrual cycle is about every four weeks.
This cycle of suspicion and discord must end.
The city government wants to set up special cycle lanes. However, a lot of drivers oppose the idea.
Menopause is when a woman's menstrual cycle stops.
It's a never ending cycle.
A lunar cycle is longer than a month.

Movie subtitles

A foolish vicious cycle.
With an atmosphere of water vapour and carbon dioxide, this cycle kept going and going and the runaway greenhouse effect has left Venus dry, lifeless, and a scorching 480 degrees Celsius.
I'm going to try and tube her again at the end of this cycle.
Let's be ready with adrenaline for after this cycle, please.
We won't be able to do it until the third cycle.
The third cycle?
Look. those enormous rocks have been worn away by the gigantic force of water, in nature's eternal cycle.
They haven't done that since I was a beginner. The cycle's complete.
And then his cycle crawled under your front wheel?
Maybe something hit my cycle.
Why, I should think you'd of gone along. I hear that Vladovich is playing a Beethoven cycle.
If the limbs complete this reproductive cycle, this would have been a jungle of living tendrils.
It's on the last cycle, 80 or 90 minutes.
A ceaseless cycle of unending drudgery.
I prefer cycle racing.
The cycle's complete.
Yeah? And then his cycle crawled under your front wheel?
Maybe something hit my cycle. I don't know what happened.
The third cycle will create a million.
It looks like it's taken about 10 minutes for each cycle.
Cycle all vents.
And because it was safe, and he knew they would never turn on him, he developed a deep but private love for his canaries, as he watched the cycle of love and mating and issuing forth.
Or more simply stated, the evolution of man, the cycle of going from dust to dessert. the metamorphosis from being the ruler of a planet to an ingredient in someone's soup.
But I'm convinced that the cycle of life finishes with death, in the grave.
The only way to end the cycle is to change the way the whole system works. What are you saying?
I didn't know he had a cycle.
My cycle hit a snowdrift.
HE HAS TO CYCLE FROM TARNMOOR.
That started a vengeance cycle that's almost finished up both families.
The nitrogen cycle?
But to actually see one of the miracles of the universe, the engineering of the cycle of a breath.
Four cycle while entering atmosphere.
Six cycle.
All hand phasers must be set on base cycle, stunning force.
Set and locked on base cycle to stun, not to kill.
Sociability, vital cycle, do you understand?
That incredible Vulcan physique hung on till the life-support cycle took over.
The seven-year cycle is biologically inherent in all Vulcans.

News and current affairs

Such a resolution would also include a carrot by guaranteeing Iran access to the non-dangerous parts of the nuclear energy fuel cycle.
It is time for the Security Council to try to internationalize the most dangerous parts of the nuclear fuel cycle.
There have been two eras since World War II when policymakers - American policymakers, at least - believed that they had solved the riddle of the business cycle and had learned how to manage a modern industrial or post-industrial economy.
The second was the decade of successful business-cycle management by Alan Greenspan's independent, apolitical, and technocratic Fed during the 1990s.
Keynes was an optimist in believing that governments could learn to manage the business cycle.
The typical business cycle has a natural cushioning mechanism that wards off unexpected blows.
In northern Ethiopia, as in much of Africa, the rain cycle has changed markedly in recent years.
But it is easier because once those constraints are appropriately targeted, relatively simple policy changes can yield enormous economic payoffs and start a virtuous cycle of growth and institutional reform.
No state would be required to give up the right to develop its own fuel cycle.
The opportunity to put the nuclear fuel cycle under multinational control was missed 60 years ago because of the Cold War.
Even before the crisis, this resulted in divergences in competitiveness and in the business cycle.
Argentina's cycle of crisis is perplexing.
This vicious cycle of coups, constitutions, and elections defined Thai politics for decades.
It is quite right to argue that governments should aim only to balance their budgets over the business cycle, running surpluses during booms and deficits when economic activity is weak.
Its virtue is that it gives policymakers something clear to do, with promised returns that match the political cycle.
This gap has narrowed in the past couple of years, but much of the improvement probably reflects little more than the temporary impact of an unusually tough business cycle.
Over the next year or so, the Fed is likely to enter a tightening cycle, raising interest rates on a steady and sustained basis.
So, without breaking the regular budget cycle, the DPJ will be forced to implement not only the supplementary budget drawn up by the LDP, but will also be stuck with next year's budget, which embodies LDP policies that the DPJ has denounced.
But if the momentum toward better risk management continues, it will be the last real estate cycle in which homeowners are unable to protect themselves.
Can Afghanistan finally escape the cycle of militancy and foreign intervention that has plagued it for more than three decades?
Of all these countries, the United States appears to be the most likely to have reached the end of the cycle.
Italy and Spain are at very different points in the economic cycle now than they were then.

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