cycle

cycle is a 5-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
2. noun. An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year.
3. noun. An age; a long period of time.
4. noun. An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
5. noun. The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins.
6. noun. One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves.
7. noun. A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede.
8. intransitive verb. To pass through a cycle of changes; to recur in cycles.
9. intransitive verb. To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle.
10. noun. a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals

    Synonyms: bicycle, bike, wheel

11. noun. a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon

    "a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons"

    Synonyms: oscillation

12. noun. a periodically repeated sequence of events

    "a cycle of reprisal and retaliation"

13. noun. a series of poems or songs on the same theme

    "Schubert's song cycles"

14. noun. the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second

    Synonyms: cps, cyclessecond, hertz, hz

15. noun. an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs

    "the never-ending cycle of the seasons"

    Synonyms: rhythm, round

16. verb. recur in repeating sequences
17. verb. ride a bicycle

    Synonyms: bicycle, bike, pedal, wheel

18. verb. ride a motorcycle

    Synonyms: motorbike, motorcycle

19. verb. pass through a cycle

    "This machine automatically cycles"

20. verb. cause to go through a recurring sequence

    "cycle the laundry in this washing program"

Synonyms

bicycle, bike, wheel, oscillation, cps, cyclessecond, hertz, hz, rhythm, round, pedal, motorbike, motorcycle

Common word forms

cycled, cycler, cycles, cycling

Words from these letters

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