different between recycle vs cycle

English

Etymology

From re- +? cycle.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???sa?k?l/, /???sa?k?l/, /?i?sa?k?l/
• Rhymes: -a?k?l

Verb

recycle (third-person singular simple present recycles, present participle recycling, simple past and past participle recycled)

1. (transitive) To break down and reuse component materials.

2. (transitive) To reuse as a whole.
   • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

     Jokes are recycled so frequently, it’s as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.
3. (transitive) To collect or place in a bin for recycling.
   • 1990, Laurence Sombke, The Solution to Pollution: 101 Things You Can Do to Clean Up Your Environment, Sandy, Oregon: MasterMedia, p 22:

     Most cans, bottles, and jars need to be rinsed, so recycle while you are doing dishes.

   • 2003, The Complete Guide to Easy Woodworking Projects: 50 Projects You Can Build With Hand Power Tools, Minneapolis: Creative Publishing International, p 270:

     Recycling is no longer a chore when this convenient recycling center is a fixture in your kitchen.

   • 2006, Elaine Martin Petrowski, Design Ideas for Home Storage, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Creative Homeowner, p 133:

     You'll find many configurations, including models that hide behind a single cabinet door and conceal from one to three bins, so you can recycle at the same spot where you dispose of trash.

4. (intransitive, ergative) To be recycled.

5. (US) To discard into a recycling bin.
6. (US, military, transitive) To put (a person) through a course of training again.
   • 2006, Barbara Schading, Richard Schading, A Civilian's Guide to the U.S. Military (page 102)

     Recruits cannot fail this portion of their training and become a Marine. Anyone who fails may be “recycled” through training up to three more times to try again, but will be sent home if success in this program is not achieved.

Hyponyms

• downcycle
• upcycle

Derived terms

• recyclable
• recyclability
• recycle bin
• recycling

Translations

Noun

recycle (plural recycles)

1. An act of recycling.
   • 2011, C. P. Leslie Grady, Jr., Glen T. Daigger, Nancy G. Love, Biological Wastewater Treatment, Third Edition (page 189)

     First, there will be little reaction in the settler so that the concentrations of soluble constituents in the recycle stream are the same as those in the bioreactor. Because all soluble concentrations are the same, the recycle of soluble constituents around the system has no impact on system performance.

   • 2020, Gary Gray, MUD on MY BADGE

     If the agency does not approve recycle of the cadet who failed to qualify, the cadet is sent home and is not hired by the department who sponsored him or her in the academy.

Further reading

• recycling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.sikl/

Verb

recycle

1. first-person singular present indicative of recycler
2. third-person singular present indicative of recycler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of recycler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of recycler
5. second-person singular imperative of recycler

German

Pronunciation

Verb

recycle

1. inflection of recyceln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

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)

1. 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.

2. A complete rotation of anything.
3. A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
4. The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
5. (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.

6. A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.

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

8. 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

9. (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.

10. (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
11. (topology, algebraic topology) A chain whose boundary is zero.
12. 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?)

13. An age; a long period of time.
    • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall

      Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

14. An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
15. (botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Gray to this entry?)

16. (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.

17. (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)

1. To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
2. To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
3. (electronics) To turn power off and back on

   Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.

4. (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)

1. cycle
2. (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

1. vocative singular of cyclus