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Cycle   /sˈaɪkəl/   Listen
Cycle

noun
1.
An interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs.  Synonyms: rhythm, round.
2.
A series of poems or songs on the same theme.
3.
A periodically repeated sequence of events.
4.
The unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second.  Synonyms: cps, cycle per second, cycles/second, hertz, Hz.
5.
A single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon.  Synonym: oscillation.
6.
A wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals.  Synonyms: bicycle, bike, wheel.
verb
(past & past part. cycled; pres. part. cycling)
1.
Cause to go through a recurring sequence.
2.
Pass through a cycle.
3.
Ride a motorcycle.  Synonyms: motorbike, motorcycle.
4.
Ride a bicycle.  Synonyms: bicycle, bike, pedal, wheel.
5.
Recur in repeating sequences.



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"Cycle" Quotes from Famous Books



... repair shop," said Harry, with a laugh. The need of prompt and efficient action pulled him together. He forgot his wonder at finding Graves, the pain of his ankle, everything but the instant need of being busy. He had to get that cycle going and be off in pursuit; that was ...
— Facing the German Foe • Colonel James Fiske
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... delight, with whatever ingenious preciosity, we go through its process. Only as an image of beauty mated in some strange hermaphroditic ecstasy is that possible. I mean only as a dream projected into a hypothetical, a real heaven. But on earth we cannot complete the cycle in consciousness that would give us the freedom of an image in which two identities mysteriously realize their separate unities by the absorption of a third thing, the constructive rhythm of a work of art. It is thus that Tristan ...
— Lysistrata • Aristophanes
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... north side of the Market Place, next to what is now Mr. Cammack's cycle depot, was the Queen's Head Inn, now gone; and at the north-east corner of the Market Place, one door removed from St. Lawrence Street, was the Nelson Inn, still existing; while at the south-east corner stood the large George Inn, no longer existing; and near the churchyard, ...
— A History of Horncastle - from the earliest period to the present time • James Conway Walter
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... sorry to miss it myself," said a voice which Jacqueline recognized, behind the headlight. "Better one night of Kentucky than a cycle of Cathay." ...
— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly
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... ascends by these infirm steps to loftier heights than ever before, and the scene in which he represents Doctor Dolliver seated at night before the fire in his chamber after Pansie had been put to bed, is the noblest passage in the whole cycle of Hawthorne's art; one of those rare passages written in moments of gifted insight, when it seems as if a higher power guided the writer's hand. It is given here entire, for to subtract a word from it ...
— The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne • Frank Preston Stearns
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