different between session vs cycle

English

Etymology

From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessi? (“a sitting”), from sede? (“sit”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s???n/
• Rhymes: -???n
• Homophone: cession

Noun

session (plural sessions)

1. A period devoted to a particular activity, e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislative body (that together comprise the legislative term) whose individual meetings are also called sessions.
2. A meeting of a council, court, school, or legislative body to conduct its business.

3. (computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.

4. (cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
5. (obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien

     But Vivien, gathering somewhat of his mood, […] / Leapt from her session on his lap, and stood.

6. (music) Ellipsis of jam session
7. (education) An academic term.

Hyponyms

• bull session

Derived terms

• parasession
• sessionize
• sessionless
• session musician
• session-replicated

Related terms

Translations

Verb

session (third-person singular simple present sessions, present participle sessioning, simple past and past participle sessioned)

1. (music) To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.

Anagrams

• essoins, osseins

Finnish

Noun

session

1. Genitive singular form of sessio.

French

Etymology

From Old French session, borrowed from Latin sessi?, sessi?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.sj??/

Noun

session f (plural sessions)

1. session, period
2. (computing) session

Related terms

• seoir

Further reading

• “session” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sessi?, sessi?nem.

Noun

session f (oblique plural sessions, nominative singular session, nominative plural sessions)

1. sitting; session (of a court, a committee, etc.)

Descendants

• French: session
• ? Middle English: session
  • English: session

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