Definitions for cycles

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cycles cy·cle

Spelling: [sahy-kuh l]

IPA: /ˈsaɪ kəl/

Cycles is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in cycles (ccelsy).

Definitions for cycles

noun

1. any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.
2. a round of years or a recurring period of time, especially one in which certain events or phenomena repeat themselves in the same order and at the same intervals.
3. any long period of years; age.
4. a bicycle, motorcycle, tricycle, etc.
5. a group of poems, dramas, prose narratives, songs etc., about a central theme, figure, or the like:
6. Physics. a sequence of changing states that, upon completion, produces a final state identical to the original one. one of a succession of periodically recurring events. a complete alteration in which a phenomenon attains a maximum and minimum value, returning to a final value equal to the original one.
7. Mathematics. a permutation of a set of elements that leaves the original cyclic order of the elements unchanged.
8. Computers. the smallest interval of time required to complete an operation in a computer. a series of computer operations repeated as a unit.

Idioms

1. hit for the cycle, Baseball. (of one player) to hit a single, double, triple, and home run in one game.

verb (used without object)

1. to ride or travel by bicycle, motorcycle, tricycle, etc.
2. to move or revolve in cycles; pass through cycles.

Origin of cycles

1350-1400; Middle English cicle Late Latin cyclus Greek kýklos cycle, circle, wheel, ring, disk, orb; see wheel

Examples for cycles

Even Republicans who opposed a federal wage hike in this cycle were often supportive or silent about state and local increases.

The three works will serve to complete each other, and they complete a cycle of the theme.

The cycle of beauty and eternal hope, and, incidentally, the good of trade.

Eventually, the mistletoe bush grows, blooms, and forms berries, and the cycle begins anew.

That cycle of intelligence-gathering and capturing or killing fighters helped turn the tide of combat operations.

My sixth a cycle of revolving time,Which visits every nation, age, and clime.

In general it appears that practice has moved and still moves in a cycle.

Then he mounted his cycle and rode away from me down the drive towards the Hall.

For Republicans, the 2016 cycle will show us whether old dogs have learned new tricks.

It almost mirrors the Buddhist cycle of life, death, and rebirth.