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How to pronounce cycle
Say it like this: /ˈsaɪ.kəl/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.
What does cycle mean?
nounAn interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
“the cycle of the seasons, or of the year”
A complete rotation of anything.
A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
“electoral cycle menstrual cycle news cycle”
verbTo go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
“When my wife and I heard a plaintive whinny from our laundry room the other day, we knew that our old dryer had cycled its last load.”
To turn power off and back on
“Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.”
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
“They have their cycling game going tonight.”
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