cycle
/ˈsaɪ.kəl/ noun B1- 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
- A complete rotation of anything.
- A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence. · electoral cycle menstrual cycle news cycle
- The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
- 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.
- A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device. · Put the washing in on a warm cycle.· the spin cycle
- 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.
- A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
Plural cycles
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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A cycle map of the county lay on his bedroom table.
Presumably he at once concealed his cycle among the laurels where it was found, and possibly lurked there himself, with his eye on the house, waiting for Mr.
His Pall Mall lodgings, the Diogenes Club, Whitehall—that is his cycle.
Even if we do not wake up completely, noise disrupts our deep sleep cycles.
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