cycle
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2.8
- noun
- /ˈsaɪkəl/
:
ciclo
- You can see how the vicious cycle would take place.
- life cycle
- menstrual cycle
- vicious cycle
Now, what would be the cycle for Miller's story?
- Now, what would be the cycle for Miller's story?
- When this graph starts to repeat a cycle, right?
- And that's where the debt cycle starts for for kids.
- Deal with it, move on and continue the cycle the next day.
- And we're going to keep that cycle going for what?
- It's about creating a virtuous cycle of self-confidence.
- The idea of stepping out of that cycle can feel overwhelming.
- You catapult yourself into a new cycle and you never finish.
- I don't think that that the nasal cycle is an olfaction story.
- You know, the news cycle loves a lost child.
- These changes take place in this cycle of bundling and unbundling.
- Wow, what a day we have for you, the news cycle and the guests.
- DoD look, the procurement cycles are much longer.
- And I think we're in an election cycle, obviously.
- How victimhood can keep us locked in cycles of pity and guilt.
- You'll stop experiencing those same samsara cycles once you stop judging it.
Examples
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Movement is essential for the successful life-cycle completion and persistence of populations of all animal species.
Academic text (2017) -
Students play the provided rhythmic cycle several times until they are familiar with the basic pattern.
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Let me just look at the cycle of five steps.
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Deal with it, move on and continue the cycle the next day.
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Where is John in the cycle of his life?
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We speed up the natural cycle of life and death.
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It's just the natural cycle of life.
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The idea of stepping out of that cycle can feel overwhelming.
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For those of you that did your homework, today, we are going over the life cycle of the frog.
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The planet completes its cycle around the sun every year.
Synonyms
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2.1
A length of time with a clear start and end, like a class or game segment
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3.3
A regular pattern of sounds and movements, often in music or dance
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3.2
A planned schedule where things happen in turn, like crops or staff shifts
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5.1
A repeated version of something that aims to improve it
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5.0
An event or problem that happens again, often at regular times
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7.0
One complete back-and-forth movement, like a pendulum swing
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5.8
Something that happens again
One repetition in a process, for example one step in a loop
A pattern where something happens again at fixed times
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
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3.4
A natural monthly change in a woman's body that prepares for pregnancy
- Literature
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7.6
A process of being born again after death many times until you become free
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3.9
A small three-wheeled vehicle that a person pedals to carry passengers for money
- Specialized
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5.1
A series of chemical reactions in cells that make energy, carbon dioxide, and water
- Specialized
Events in the heart from one beat to the next, including the upper and lower chambers tightening and relaxing
- Specialized
An ideal engine process that shows the highest efficiency a heat engine can reach
- Specialized
A model of a perfect machine that turns heat into work to show the highest possible efficiency
- Specialized
A series of chemical reactions in the mitochondria of cells that make energy
- Specialized
An action that runs for a set number of regular time steps in machines or computers
- Specialized
A system where energy and nutrients move between plants, animals and tiny living things that break down dead matter
- Specialized
A series of reactions in the cell's mitochondria that change food molecules into energy
- Specialized
A series of chemical reactions in cells that make energy from food
How Repetitive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cycle comes from the Greek word kyklos, which means 'circle' or 'wheel'. So a cycle is like events moving around a circle and returning to the start, which is why we use it for things that repeat.