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cycle
English
Etymology
From Middle English cicle (“fixed length period of years”), from Late Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kúklos, “circle”), from Proto-Indo-European *k?ék?los (“circle, wheel”). Doublet of wheel; see there for more.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sa?k?l/
- Rhymes: -a?k?l
Noun
cycle (plural cycles)
- An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
- 1795, Edmund Burke, Thoughts and Details on Scarcity
- Wages […] bear a full proportion […] to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years.
- 1795, Edmund Burke, Thoughts and Details on Scarcity
- A complete rotation of anything.
- A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
- The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
- (music) In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class.
- A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.
- A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
- A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
- Hyponyms: motorbike, motorcycle, unicycle, bicycle, tricycle, motortrike
- (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
- (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
- (topology, algebraic topology) A chain whose boundary is zero.
- An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Burke to this entry?)
- An age; a long period of time.
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall
- Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall
- An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
- (botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gray to this entry?)
- (weaponry) A discharge of a taser.
- 2014, R.T. Wyant, Thomas Burns, Risk Management of Less Lethal Options, CRC Press (?ISBN), page 211:
- Officers have made the mistake of applying many Taser cycles, expecting the suspect to relent.
- 2014, R.T. Wyant, Thomas Burns, Risk Management of Less Lethal Options, CRC Press (?ISBN), page 211:
- (aviation) One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.
Usage notes
- (baseball sense): As in the example sentence, one is usually said to hit for the cycle. However, other uses also occur, such as hit a cycle and complete the cycle.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (saikuru)
Translations
Verb
cycle (third-person singular simple present cycles, present participle cycling, simple past and past participle cycled)
- To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
- To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
- (electronics) To turn power off and back on
- Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
- (ice hockey) 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.
Related terms
- recycle
Translations
Anagrams
- leccy
French
Etymology
From Middle French, from Late Latin cyclus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sikl/
Noun
cycle m (plural cycles)
- cycle
- (Switzerland) middle school, junior high school
Derived terms
- cycle de l'eau
- cycle du carbone
Further reading
- “cycle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Noun
cycle
- vocative singular of cyclus
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revolution
English
Etymology
From Middle English revolucion, borrowed from Old French revolucion, from Late Latin revol?ti?nem, accusative singular of revol?ti? (“the act of revolving; revolution”), from Latin revolv? (“roll back, revolve”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???v??l(j)u???n/
- Rhymes: -u???n
- Hyphenation: re?vo?lu?tion
Noun
revolution (countable and uncountable, plural revolutions)
- A political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change.
- The removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action.
- Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis, one complete turn of an object during rotation.
- 1912, P. M. Heldt, The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction, Volume II: Transmission, Running Gear and Control, The Horseless Age Co. (1913), page 147:
- The ratio between the speeds of revolution of wheel and disc is substantially equal to the reciprocal of the ratio between the diameter of the wheel and the diameter of the mean contact circle on the disc.
- 1864, D. M. Warren, The Common-School Geography, Revised Edition, H. Cowperthwait & Co., page 6:
- The Earth has two motions: a daily revolution (or turning around) upon its axis, and a yearly course around the sun.
- 1878, George Fleming, A Text-Book of Veterinary Obstetrics, Baillière, Tindall, & Cox, page 123:
- Numerous cases are recorded which incontestibly prove that during pregnancy, the uterus perform a half or even a complete revolution, on itself, producing torsion of the cervix […]
- 1912, P. M. Heldt, The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction, Volume II: Transmission, Running Gear and Control, The Horseless Age Co. (1913), page 147:
- In the case of celestial bodies - the traversal of one body through an orbit around another body.
- A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.
- A round of periodic changes, such as between the seasons of the year.
- Consideration of an idea; the act of revolving something in the mind.
Usage notes
- Astronomers today do not use revolution to refer to the turning of an object about an axis: they use rotation for that, and revolution only for the traversal of a body through an orbit (which also happens around some axis). (This may be somewhat customary, however, strictly speaking, using either word for either process would not be incorrect.)
Antonyms
- (sudden, vast change): evolution
Derived terms
- Revolution
- revolutionary
- revolutionize
- Compounds
- agricultural revolution
- French Revolution
- Industrial Revolution
- information revolution
- palace revolution
- Russian Revolution
- solid of revolution
Related terms
- revolve
Translations
Further reading
- "revolution" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 270.
Danish
Etymology
From French révolution.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r?volusjo?n/, [??volu??o??n]
Noun
revolution c (singular definite revolutionen, plural indefinite revolutioner)
- revolution (political upheaval)
- revolution (removal and replacement of a government)
- revolution (sudden, vast change in a situation or discipline)
Inflection
Derived terms
- revolutionere
- revolutionær
Further reading
- revolution on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /revolu?t?sjon/
Noun
revolution (plural revolutiones)
- revolution
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r?v?l???u?n/
Noun
revolution c
- a revolution (upheaval, replacement of government, sudden change)
Declension
Related terms
- revolt
- revoltera
- revolutionsgardist
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