A Quick and Simple Dictionary

cycle

1. Noun.  An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
2. Noun.  A complete rotation of anything.
3. Noun.  A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
4. Noun.  A series of poems, songs or other works of art.
5. Noun.  A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
6. Noun.  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. Noun.  (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
8. Noun.  (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
9. Verb.  To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
10. Verb.  To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
11. Verb.  (electronics) To turn power off and back on.
12. Verb.  (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.