CYCLE | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of cycle in English cyclenoun uk /ˈsaɪ.kəl/ us /ˈsaɪ.kəl/

cycle noun (BICYCLE)

Add to word list Add to word list B2 [ C ] UK a bicycle: Cycles cannot be taken on this train. A thousand people took part in the region's biggest-ever cycle race.

• Secure locking for cycles is available here.
• We're looking for a cycle hire shop.

Bicycles

• backie
• balance bike
• bicycling
• bike path
• bike rack
• BMX
• chopper
• fixie
• freight bike
• gear ratio
• handlebar
• keirin
• saddle
• skibob
• stabilizer
• tagalong
• tandem
• training wheels
• trishaw
• wheeler

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cycle noun (SERIES)

B2 [ C ] a series of events that happen in a particular order, one following the other, and are often repeated: cycle of They are trapped in a cycle of violence.break the cycle The charity works with low-income families to give children a good start in life and help break the cycle of inter-generational poverty.complete a cycle Humans generally take about 90 minutes to complete a full cycle of REM and non-REM sleep. The same cycle repeated itself time and time again. See also business cycle the carbon cycle economic cycle election cycle electoral cycle estrous cycle life cycle menstrual cycle news cycle the nitrogen cycle sleep cycle the water cycle [ C ] one in a series of movements that a machine performs: the washing machine's spin cycle

• They train for several months, compete, analyze their performance, then start training again, and the cycle repeats itself.
• You are trapped in an endless cycle where you eat too much because you are unhappy, and are unhappy because you eat too much.
• I'm too tired to see friends, which makes me feel more isolated. Can you help me break this cycle?
• Many Americans feel a sense of relief when they complete a four-year political cycle and elect a new president.

Order and sequence - general words

• alphabetize
• around
• back end
• be a chapter of accidents idiom
• catalogue
• front end
• in chronological order
• inconsecutive
• inline
• ladder
• linear
• linearity
• parade
• penultimate
• penultimately
• precedence
• priority
• procession
• string
• vice versa

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Repeating an action

cycle noun (LITERATURE/MUSIC)

[ C, + sing/pl verb ] a group of plays, poems, songs, etc. written by one person and connected with each other by dealing with the same characters or ideas: It's one in a cycle of plays that are being performed on successive evenings. Types of film, play, book etc.

• action thriller
• adaptation
• Afrofuturism
• allegorical
• anime
• bodice-ripper
• boy-meets-girl
• director's cut
• noir
• non-documentary
• non-literary
• one-shot
• paean
• period piece
• potboiler
• sequel
• stream of consciousness
• tragic
• weepy
• whodunnit

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cycle noun (BASEBALL)

 hit for the cycle In baseball, if a player hits for the cycle, they hit a single (= a hit that allows them to reach first base), a double (= a hit that allows them to reach second base), a triple (= a hit that allows them to reach third base), and a home run (= a hit that allows them to run around all four bases) in the same game: He was the first player in the team's history to hit for the cycle. Baseball & rounders

• 1-2-3 inning
• ahead
• alley
• around the horn idiom
• at bat
• bomb
• curve
• heater
• hit the ball out of the park idiom
• hitting coach
• home plate
• home stand
• horsehide
• sac
• slugging percentage
• solo
• spitter
• split-fingered fastball
• splitter
• stretch

See more results » cycleverb uk /ˈsaɪ.kəl/ us /ˈsaɪ.kəl/

cycle verb (RIDE BIKE)

B1 [ I or T ] mainly UK to ride a bicycle: Most of the kids cycle or walk to school. We have cycled all the way from Scotland. She was so determined to get fit she often cycled eight miles to the nearest swimming pool. Related word cycling

• We cycled through scenic hill country.
• They ski in the winter and cycle in the summer.
• It's too far to cycle.
• He cycled 40 minutes to work every morning and back again in the evening.
• I cycled the 60 miles with a friend and it cost us very little because we slept in a tent.

Bicycles

• backie
• balance bike
• bicycling
• bike path
• bike rack
• BMX
• chopper
• fixie
• freight bike
• gear ratio
• handlebar
• keirin
• saddle
• skibob
• stabilizer
• tagalong
• tandem
• training wheels
• trishaw
• wheeler

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cycle verb (REPEAT)

to go through or repeat a cycle (= a series of events that happen in the same order one after the other, and are often repeated): cycle through The earth cycles through natural heating and cooling trends.cycle between People with bipolar disorder can cycle between depression and mania.cycle in and out of He spent his adult life cycling in and out of prison.

• The festival cycles between the three cities.
• Survivors of addiction have cycled through the criminal justice system and rehabilitation.
• Active in Republican circles, he has cycled in and out of government and the private sector.

Repeating an action

• be at it again idiom
• be/sound like a broken record idiom
• binge-watch
• bingeable
• blitz
• déjà vu
• here we go (again) idiom
• iteration
• iterative
• iteratively
• keep on doing something phrasal verb
• keep your eye in idiom
• repetitive
• replicable
• reprise
• reproduce
• reproducible
• reproducibly
• reread
• rewrite

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Order and sequence - general words (Definition of cycle from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

cycle | American Dictionary

cyclenoun [ C ] us /ˈsɑɪ·kəl/

cycle noun [C] (BICYCLE)

Add to word list Add to word list short form ofbicycle

cycle noun [C] (SERIES)

a complete set of events that repeat themselves regularly in the same order, or a regularly repeated period of time: Some economists predict the business cycle will turn downward. (Definition of cycle from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

cycle | Business English

cyclenoun [ C ] uk /ˈsaɪkl/ us Add to word list Add to word list a group of events that happen in a particular order, one following the other, and often repeated: Interest rates tend to move in cycles. Spending quickly becomes a vicious cycle - the more you have the more you spend. ECONOMICS a pattern of successful periods followed by less successful periods that often happens in an industry, a market, a business, etc.: Normally, the business has cycles, and every 10 years it peaks. If you sell goods in a seasonal industry, then cycles of consumer demand are an important dimension of your environment.boom-and-bust/market cycles Security prices tend to move up and down over various market cycles and logic says to invest when prices are low. The company's markets had passed the bottom of the cycle and were slowly growing again. ECONOMICS a single successful period, period of failure, etc. that is part of a regular series: a boom/down cycle The country is still in a boom cycle. The market is still in its growth cycle.a cycle of debt/poverty The Credit Union tries to wean borrowers off the cycle of debt by offering financial counseling and payment plans. a regular period of time during which an activity, job, etc. is done: a two-year/3-month/annual, etc. cycle a budget/planning/sales cycleproduct/product-development cycles They work to shorten product-development cycles and to boost manufacturing productivity.

See also

the accounting cycle billing cycle business cycle family life cycle job cycle Kondratieff cycle life cycle (Definition of cycle from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of cycle

cycle We will use the efficient rabbit strategy for cycles as a subroutine on graphs with arbitrary diameter. From the Cambridge English Corpus We pack the cycles written with 3s only first. From the Cambridge English Corpus To reduce the number of colours required, we perform a preprocessing step of 3colouring the vertices in all short cycles in the graph. From the Cambridge English Corpus Our general hunter strategy is based on a hunter strategy for cycles which is then simulated on general graphs. From the Cambridge English Corpus We are interested in knowing to what extent the lack of cycles of a fixed length implies 3-degeneracy. From the Cambridge English Corpus We need to arrange the cycles and the packings so that the last four cycles finish simultaneously. From the Cambridge English Corpus By using at most four cycles of length > 72, we can ensure that all cycles of length less than 72 are used. From the Cambridge English Corpus Our strategy is to pack cycles into sequences of linked octahedra. From the Cambridge English Corpus In this way, is decomposed into an ordered product of cycles. From the Cambridge English Corpus A semicomplete digraph without cycles of length two is a tournament. From the Cambridge English Corpus However, the value of c is less easy to determine for graphs with short cycles. From the Cambridge English Corpus Long-term trials are very expensive and three to four cycles of a rotation trial represent a sizeable commitment of resources. From the Cambridge English Corpus In the context of a landleasing system, farmers are not too concerned about productivity beyond the current plantation cycles. From the Cambridge English Corpus Not surprisingly, such coercive cycles between parent and child are related to the child's overt aggression and antisocial behavior both at home and at school. From the Cambridge English Corpus A population size of a minimum of about 2000 to a maximum of more than 6000 plants was maintained in the cycles of random mating. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of cycle These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of cycle?

Translations of cycle

in Chinese (Traditional) 單車／腳踏車／自行車, 腳踏車，單車，自行車, 連續… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 自行车, 自行车，脚踏车, 连续… See more in Spanish bicicleta, ir en bici, ciclo [masculine]… See more in Portuguese bicicleta, ciclo, andar de bicicleta… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Russian in Telugu in Arabic in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian सायकल, चक्र, घटनाचक्र - ठरावीक क्रमाने… See more 自転車に乗る, 循環（じゅんかん）, 自転車（じてんしゃ）に乗（の）る… See more dizi, demet, bir seri olaylar zinciri… See more cycle [masculine], faire de la bicyclette, aller à/en bicyclette… See more anar amb bicicleta… See more fietsen, fiets, cyclus… See more ஒரு மிதிவண்டி/சைக்கிள், ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட வரிசையில் நடக்கும் நிகழ்வுகளின் தொடர், ஒன்று மற்றொன்றைப் பின்தொடர்கிறது… See more साइकिल, चक्र, साईकल की सवारी करना… See more સાયકલ, ચક્ર, સાઈકલ… See more cykle, cykel, cyklus… See more cykla, cykel, kretslopp… See more mengayuh basikal, basikal, kitaran… See more radeln, radfahren, das Fahrrad… See more syklus [masculine], kretsløp [neuter], sykle… See more بائیسکل, گردش, چکر… See more їздити на велосипеді, велосипед, цикл… See more цикл, велосипед, ездить на велосипеде… See more సైకల్, ఒక ప్రత్యేకమైన విధానముగా ఒక సంఘటనల జట్టు జరగడం, ఒకదాని తరువాత ఇంకొకటి జరిగటం. చాలా వరకు ఈ సంఘటనలు మళ్లి ఈ విధానంగానే అవుతూ ఉంటాయి… See more يَرْكَب الدَّراجة… See more একটি সাইকেল, চক্র, একটি ঘটনা একটি নির্দিষ্ট ক্রমে ঘটে… See more jet na kole, kolo (jízdní), cyklus… See more bersepeda, sepeda, daur… See more ขี่จักรยาน, จักรยาน, วัฏจักร… See more đi xe đạp, xe đạp, chu kỳ… See more cykl, rower, jeździć lub jechać na rowerze… See more 자전거를 타다… See more andare in bicicletta, bicicletta, ciclo… See more Need a translator?

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• carbon cycle
• vicious circle
• job cycle
• cash cycle
• cycle clips
• cycle count
• cycle count verb, at cycle count

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  • Noun 
    • cycle (BICYCLE)
    • cycle (SERIES)
    • cycle (LITERATURE/MUSIC)
    • cycle (BASEBALL)
    • hit for the cycle
  • Verb 
    • cycle (RIDE BIKE)
    • cycle (REPEAT)
• American   
  • Noun 
    • cycle (BICYCLE)
    • cycle (SERIES)
• Business   Noun
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