cycle

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All he got for his cycle was a scrap of paper, stating that it had been requisitioned for army use.

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  1. noun An interval of time during which a characteristic, often regularly repeated event or sequence of events occurs: Sunspots increase and decrease in intensity in an 11-year cycle.
  2. noun A single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon: A year constitutes a cycle of the seasons.
  3. noun A periodically repeated sequence of events: the cycle of birth, growth, and death; a cycle of reprisal and retaliation.
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  • Part of what causes the downward side of the cycle is the onslaught of sights and sounds and people and experience that comes with the upside. —  Daily Financial News
  • "I think I can go a little further, but my cycle is a little bit heavy right now." —  KentNewsNet.com
  • If your cycle is a few days longer, you probably ovulated after day 14, and your baby may arrive a few days after your estimated due date.
  • Admittedly, the corporate default rate until recently in this cycle was at an all-time low, so comparisons are bound to make for scary headlines. —  New York Sun - All Articles
  • When I entered university the cycle was at the top, and when I graduated it was at the bottom. —  Sramana Mitra on Strategy
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process ·  phase ·  pattern ·  rate ·  strategy ·  period ·  development ·  sequence ·  trend ·  component

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cycle:   cycling ·  cycles ·  cycled
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  1. Middle English, from Late Latin cyclus, from Greek kuklos, circle; see kwel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French cycle = Spanish Italian ciclo = Portuguese cyclo, from Late Latin cyclus, from Greek κύκλος, a ring, circle, wheel, disk, orb, orbit, revolution, period of time, collection of poems, etc., prob. contr, from *κ#567εκλος = Anglo-Saxon hweogl, contr. hweól (later English wheel, q. v.), = Sanskrit chakra, a wheel, disk, circle; prob. redupl. from a root *kar, *kal seen in Greek κυλίειν, roll (later ult. English cylinder, q. v.).
  2. from cycle, n.
 

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/ˈsaɪkl/
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