cycle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim A complete rotation of anything.
3. isim A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.

   “electoral cycle    menstrual cycle    news cycle”

4. isim The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
5. isim 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.”

6. isim A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.

   “Put the washing in on a warm cycle.”

7. isim 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.”

8. isim A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
9. isim A chain whose boundary is zero.
10. isim 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”

11. isim 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.”

12. isim 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: […]”

13. isim One entire round in a circle or a spire.

    “a cycle or set of leaves”

14. isim A discharge of a taser.

    “Officers have made the mistake of applying many Taser cycles, expecting the suspect to relent.”

15. isim One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.
16. isim 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.”

17. isim A hertz; cycle per second.
18. fiil 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.”

19. fiil To turn power off and back on

    “Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.”

20. fiil 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.”

21. isim A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
22. isim A bicycle.
23. fiil 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.”