hits for the cycle

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsaɪ.kəl/, [ˈsaɪ.kɫ̩] (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈsaɪ.kəl/, [ˈsʌɪ.kəl] (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈsɑe.kəl/, [ˈsɑe.kɫ̩] (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈsaɪ.kəl/, [ˈsɑe̯.kɫ̩], [ˈsɑe̯.ko], [ˈsɑe̯.kʊ] Rhymes: -aɪkəl Hyphenation: cyc‧le === Etymology 1 === From Middle English cicle (“fixed length period of years”), from Late Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”), from Proto-Hellenic *kúklos, *kʷókʷlos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“circle, wheel”). Doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, chukker, cyclus, kike, and wheel (see there for more). ==== Noun ==== cycle (plural cycles) An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed. A complete rotation of anything. A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence. The members of the sequence formed by such a process. A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy. A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device. (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game. (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed. (topology, algebraic topology) A chain whose boundary is zero. An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres. An age; a long period of time. An orderly list for a given time; a calendar. (botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire. (weaponry) A discharge of a taser. (aviation) One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage. (sports) A scheduled period of time of weeks or months wherein a performance-enhancing substance or, by extension, supplement is applied, to be followed by another one where it is not or the dosage is lower. (usually plural) A hertz; cycle per second. ===== Usage notes ===== (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. ===== Hyponyms ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== → Japanese: サイクル (saikuru) ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== cycle (third-person singular simple present cycles, present participle cycling, simple past and past participle cycled) To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle. (electronics) To turn power off and back on (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 ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== recycle ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From -cycle (in bicycle, monocycle, and tricycle), perhaps associated with etymology 1. Compare French cycle in the same sense. The verb is either from the noun or a clipping of bicycle (verb). ==== Noun ==== cycle (plural cycles) A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels. Hyponyms: motorbike, motorcycle, unicycle, bicycle, tricycle, motortrike (specifically and now usually) A bicycle. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== cycle (third-person singular simple present cycles, present participle cycling, simple past and past participle cycled) To ride a bicycle or other cycle. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === References === === Anagrams === leccy == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French, from Late Latin cyclus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sikl/ Homophones: cycles, sicle, sicles === Noun === cycle m (plural cycles) cycle cycle de l'eau ― water cycle cycle du carbone ― carbon cycle (Switzerland) middle school, junior high school ==== Derived terms ==== bicyclette cyclique cyclisme cycliste ==== See also ==== cercle === Further reading === “cycle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Latin == === Noun === cycle vocative singular of cyclus