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to cycle

to cycle

15 3.0
To move something through a series of repeating stages
  • verb
  • /ˈsaɪkəl/
translation icon : pasar por
  • For each feeding period, the reactor cycles through four phases: feed, react, settle, and decant.
  • cycle through phases
  • cycle back

In fact, when I said that, some voice probably passed through or cycled through your imagination.

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Examples

  • Tap the side and it should cycle through all the cameras.

  • But when you long press it, you can cycle through the different modes.

  • And people will just continue to cycle through and, and, and, and not be well.

  • And so this now starts to cycle down the wrong path.

  • So how how would you how would you cycle through the different versions?

  • Although I could cycle through the other emotions quickly, fear never left me.

    Academic text (2015)
  • We have to cycle through about 27 more poses.

  • Next, a rider cycles through the course in as straight a line as possible.

    Academic text (2013)
  • It's a very wet ecosystem and that rain and the water cycles through it.

  • To test the new software, we will need to cycle through different configurations until we find the right one.

Synonyms

to recur
vsto cycle
68 5.7

Happen again, often after some time

describe passing through a planned sequence of stages rather than mere repeated occurrences
to iterate
vsto cycle
  • Specialized
4 7.2

To do the same steps again, often on a computer

go through a series of linked stages rather than repeating single instructions

Idioms

To stop poverty passing from parents to children

Phrasal Verbs

To stop a repeated harmful pattern by choosing to change

Compounds

25 2.6

A series of stages a living thing or product goes through from beginning to end

14 4.8

A situation where one problem causes another and makes things worse

business cycle
  • Specialized
12 3.5

Repeated periods when an economy grows and then shrinks

menstrual cycle
  • Specialized
9 3.4

A natural monthly change in a woman's body that prepares for pregnancy

carbon cycle
  • Specialized
3 3.9

Movement of carbon between the air, living things, soil, and oceans

2 4.1

A unit for frequency equal to one complete cycle in one second

cycle of rebirth
  • Literature
1 7.6

A process of being born again after death many times until you become free

A small three-wheeled vehicle that a person pedals to carry passengers for money

Krebs cycle
  • Specialized
1 5.1

A series of chemical reactions in cells that make energy, carbon dioxide, and water

carbon cycle
  • Specialized
6.7

A process in hot stars where carbon helps hydrogen join to form helium

cardiac cycle
  • Specialized
4.2

Events in the heart from one beat to the next, including the upper and lower chambers tightening and relaxing

Carnot cycle
  • Specialized
9.6

An ideal engine process that shows the highest efficiency a heat engine can reach

Carnot's ideal cycle
  • Specialized
9.9

A model of a perfect machine that turns heat into work to show the highest possible efficiency

citric acid cycle
  • Specialized
7.3

A series of chemical reactions in the mitochondria of cells that make energy

fixed-cycle operation
  • Specialized
6.7

An action that runs for a set number of regular time steps in machines or computers

food cycle
  • Specialized
4.2

A system where energy and nutrients move between plants, animals and tiny living things that break down dead matter

6.9

A series of reactions in the cell's mitochondria that change food molecules into energy

nitrogen cycle
  • Specialized
4.2

Process that moves nitrogen through soil, plants, animals, and air

5.4

A pattern of rises and falls in the economy, like growth and recession

5.2

A series of chemical reactions in cells that make energy from food

How Regular

to cycle
15 3.0
to rotate
60 2.3
alternate
34 3.9
to swap
119 2.1

Surface Forms

cycle infinitive
cycled past
cycled past participle
cycling present participle
cycles third person singular

Etymology

Cycle comes from the Greek kyklos meaning 'circle' or 'wheel', so to cycle is to go through stages that repeat or to make something go round again. That's why we say a machine or program 'cycles' when it repeats the same steps.