Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
An age; a long period of time.
- 4noun
An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves.
- 7noun
A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede.
- 8intransitive verb
To pass through a cycle of changes; to recur in cycles.
- 9intransitive verb
To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle.
- 10noun
a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals
- 11noun
a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon
"a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons"
Synonyms
- 12noun
a periodically repeated sequence of events
"a cycle of reprisal and retaliation"
- 13noun
a series of poems or songs on the same theme
"Schubert's song cycles"
- 14noun
the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second
Synonyms
- 15noun
an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
"the never-ending cycle of the seasons"
- 16verb
recur in repeating sequences
- 17verb
ride a bicycle
- 18verb
ride a motorcycle
Synonyms
- 19verb
pass through a cycle
"This machine automatically cycles"
- 20verb
cause to go through a recurring sequence
"cycle the laundry in this washing program"
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