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発音

• IPA: /saɪkəl/
• 韻: -aɪkəl,

語源

From Late Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kyklos), reduplicated form of a Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“circle, wheel”). Cognates include Sanskrit चक्र (cakrá), Latin colus, 古期英語 hwēol (English wheel), English ancillary

名詞

cycle (複数形 cycles)

1. An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
2. A complete rotation of anything.
3. A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
4. A series of poems, songs or other works of art
5. A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.

   Put the washing in on a warm cycle.

6. A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle; or, motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels, such as a motorbike, motorcycle, motorized tricycle, or motortrike.
7. (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.

   Jones hit for the cycle in the game.

8. (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.

使用する際の注意点

• (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.

派生語

• cyclic
• acyclic

動詞

cycle (三人称単数 現在形 cycles, 現在分詞 cycling, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

関連する語

• recycle

アナグラム

• leccy

Latin

名詞

cycle

1. vocative singular of cyclus