cycle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈsaɪ.kəl/|[ˈsaɪ.kɫ̩]    美 /ˈsaɪ.kəl/|[ˈsʌɪ.kəl]|/ˈsɑe.kəl/|[ˈsɑe.kɫ̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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
  2. A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
  3. A complete rotation of anything.
  4. A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.; A bicycle. specifically,usually
  5. A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
    — electoral cycle    menstrual cycle    news cycle
  6. The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
  7. 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.
  8. A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
    — Put the washing in on a warm cycle.
  9. 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.
  10. A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
  11. A chain whose boundary is zero.
  12. An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
    — With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb
  13. An age; a long period of time.
    — Thro' the shadow of the world we sweep into the younger day: / Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
  14. An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
    — [H]ere we endeavour to preſent our Gard'ners with a compleat Cycle of what is requiſite to be done throughout every Moneth of the Year: […]
  15. One entire round in a circle or a spire.
    — a cycle or set of leaves
  16. A discharge of a taser.
    — Officers have made the mistake of applying many Taser cycles, expecting the suspect to relent.
  17. One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.
  18. A scheduled period of time of weeks or months wherein a performance-enhancing substance or, by extension, supplement is applied, to be followed by another one where it is not or the dosage is lower.
    — The deterioration of his physique may be a result of his being off cycle.
  19. A hertz; cycle per second. plural,usually
    — […] the Plan incorporates in proper combination every available modern technique, including extensive electrification on the new standard high-voltage a.c. system at a frequency of 50 cycles; main-line diesel traction as a half-way house to electrification; lightweight diesel trains for secondary and branch services; and a smaller wagon fleet doing more work by the use of continuous brakes in conjunction with modernised terminals and marshalling yards.
动词 v.
  1. To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
    — When my wife and I heard a plaintive whinny from our laundry room the other day, we knew that our old dryer had cycled its last load.
  2. To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
    — Sometimes I would cycle over to Beckenham to watch the boat trains and Kent Coast expresses of the London, Chatham & Dover Railway, which seemed very superior to its future partner.
  3. To turn power off and back on
    — Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
  4. To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal
    — They have their cycling game going tonight.

词形变化

cycles plural cycles present,singular,third-person cycling participle,present cycled participle,past cycled past cycles plural cycles present,singular,third-person cycling participle,present cycled participle,past cycled past

词汇关系

下位词
aerocycle allocycle anthracycline anticycle anticyclic barocycle Bethe-Weizsäcker cycle Bethe–Weizsäcker cycle biocycle biogeochemical cycle Born-Haber cycle Brayton cycle break the cycle business cycle cadmium cycle Calvin cycle carbocycle carbon cycle carbon-nitrogen cycle carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle Carnot cycle Carnot's cycle carrier cycle cell cycle citrate cycle citric acid cycle clock cycle CNO cycle cocycle combined cycle Condorcet cycle Cori cycle cybercycle duty cycle ecocycle endocycle estrous cycle Eulerian cycle execution cycle exercise cycle fairy cycle four-cycle gigacycle glyoxylate cycle Hamiltonian cycle Hampson-Linde cycle handcycle hemicycle hermeneutic cycle heterocycle hexacycle homocycle hovercycle hydrocycle hydrogen cycle hydrolic cycle hype cycle hypercycle instruction cycle Jespersen's cycle Joule's cycle Juglar cycle kilocycle Kitchin cycle Krebs cycle Kuznets cycle life cycle limit cycle love cycle lunar cycle lysogenic cycle lytic cycle machine cycle macrocycle megacycle menstrual cycle mesocycle metallocycle Metonic cycle microcycle midcycle Milankovitch cycle moon cycle motor cycle nasal cycle nitrogen cycle operating cycle ornithine cycle Otto cycle ovarian cycle pedal cycle phosphorus cycle power cycle pseudocycle quasicycle Rabi cycle Rankine cycle Siemens cycle software life cycle solar cycle Sothic cycle stretch shortening cycle subcycle sulfur cycle sulfur-iodine cycle sulphur cycle supercontinent cycle supercycle TCA cycle teracycle tetracycle time cycle topping cycle trade cycle tricarboxylic acid cycle urea cycle uterine cycle vicious cycle virtuous cycle Walden cycle walk cycle water cycle Wilson cycle
衍生词
acyclic cyclase cyclecar cycle chord cycledom cycle group cycleman cyclene cycle of fifths cycle per second cycle polo cycle shorts cycle sort cycle sport cycle threshold cycle time cyclewear cyclic cyclin cyclism cyclize cyclogaine cyclol decycle downcycle in cycle intercycle intracycle monocycle motor-cycle multicycle outcycle oxacycle pentacycle pericycle photocycle polycycle power-cycle push-cycle sixty cycle hum skycycle two-cycle up-cycle cyclability cyclable cycle off e-cycle precycle upcycle cycler cyclist
相关词
bicycle cycle clip cycle lane cycle path cycle rack cycle rickshaw cycle track cycleway motorcycle quadricycle tricycle unicycle recycle

词源

词源 1
From Middle English cicle (“fixed length period of years”), from Late Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”), from Proto-Hellenic *kúklos, *kʷókʷlos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“circle, wheel”).
Doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, chukker, cyclus, kike, and wheel (see there for more).
词源 2
From -cycle (in bicycle, monocycle, and tricycle), perhaps associated with etymology 1. Compare French cycle in the same sense. The verb is either from the noun or a clipping of bicycle (verb).
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