cycle
Academic Word List, sublist 4.
About 40.34 uses per million words.
Meaning
- 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
- noun A complete rotation of anything.
- noun A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
electoral cycle menstrual cycle news cycle
- noun The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
- noun A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.
The Ring of the Nibelung is a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner.
- noun A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
Put the washing in on a warm cycle.
- noun A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
Jones hit for the cycle in the game.
- noun A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
Similar words
bike motorcycle bicycle pedal wheel round cps hertz hz rhythm
Often followed by
of is and in time to the for was
Word family
cycled cycler cyclers cycles cyclic cyclical cycling
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