to recycle
- verb
- /rɪˈsaɪkəl/
- Many cities provide special bins so residents can easily recycle their materials.
You know, I'm somebody who doesn't like to recycle used up cliches.
- You know, I'm somebody who doesn't like to recycle used up cliches.
- But it's information and that's recycled through collective consciousness.
- A second thing you need to do is that nature recycles the ubiquitins.
- The faster you can do that, the faster you can recycle that signal.
- And that's, you know, I guess they, they just thought they'd recycle the name or something like that.
- And I think the ideas are the same ideas recycled over and over and over.
- So did you know that Disney recycles cartoons?
- It's the real you that recycles as body mind.
- This life problems continue to recycle is what I've noticed, and her solutions hold.
Examples
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First, take your old queries that never won assignments and recycle them.
Academic text (2008) -
For example, participants could share ideas about ways to recycle or experiment for the science fair.
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And there are ways to make it easier to recycle this stuff.
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Now you say, but I recycle and yeah, you know, we recycle.
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So yeah, I think I will recycle these clamps.
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We continue to reduce our carbon footprint and to recycle evermore waste.
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What we want is to urge Singaporeans to recycle for purpose or for reuse.
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It turns out ubiquitin is recycled inside the cell.
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The existing PLS recycles funds back to the paying entities to be used for pollution control projects.
Academic text (1998) -
Representations of black females in the media tend to recycle familiar stereotypes and slightly alter them in a contemporary context.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
Take useful materials from waste to use again
To use something again after cleaning or fixing it
To take useful materials from waste so they can be used again
Treat something again so it can be used or made better
Change old things people would throw away into new, more useful things
To use something again after fixing it or for a new purpose
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word recycle comes from re- 'again' and cycle 'a circle or repeated process'. So to recycle an idea or a process is to make it go through the same cycle 'again'.