cycle – English noun declension

English noun forms of cycle

Noun: cycle
Singularcycle
Pluralcycles

Sample Sentences

  • the cycle of the seasons, or of the year
  • VVages have been tvvice raiſed in my time, and they bear a full proportion, or even a greater than formerly, to the medium of proviſion during the laſt bad cycle of tvventy years. [1795 November (date written), Edmund Burke, Thoughts and Details on Scarcity, […], London: […] [T. Gillet] for F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J[ohn] Hatchard, […], published 1800, →OCLC, page 6:]
  • electoral cycle    menstrual cycle    news cycle
  • No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again. [2013 August 10, “Legal highs: A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:]
  • Ice is one of a slate of young, idealistic candidates for Move Forward who have joined mainstream politics in the hope that this election allows Thailand to break the cycle of military coups […] [2023 May 8, Jonathan Head, “Thailand election: The young radicals shaking up politics”, in BBC News (World):]
  • The Ring of the Nibelung is a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner.
  • Put the washing in on a warm cycle.
  • the spin cycle
  • Jones hit for the cycle in the game.
  • With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb [1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • There appears to be no absolute cycle in the universe; all is change and progression. No planet ever revolves twice precisely in the same orbit. [1858, [anonymous], “Appendix”, in Edmund Burke, The Inherent Evils of All State Governments Demonstrated; Being a Reprint of Edmund Burke’s Celebrated Essay, Entitled “A Vindication of Natural Society:” […], London: Holyoake and Company, […], →OCLC, page 54:]
  • Thro' the shadow of the world we sweep into the younger day: / Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. [1835, Alfred Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 110:]
  • [H]ere we endeavour to preſent our Gard'ners with a compleat Cycle of what is requiſite to be done throughout every Moneth of the Year: […] [1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], “Kalendarium Hortense: Or, The Gard’ners Almanac; […] [Introduction to the Kalendar.]”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, page 56:]
  • a cycle or set of leaves [1857, Asa Gray, First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology:]
  • Officers have made the mistake of applying many Taser cycles, expecting the suspect to relent. [2014, R.T. Wyant, Thomas Burns, Risk Management of Less Lethal Options, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 211:]
  • The deterioration of his physique may be a result of his being off cycle.
  • […] the Plan incorporates in proper combination every available modern technique, including extensive electrification on the new standard high-voltage a.c. system at a frequency of 50 cycles; main-line diesel traction as a half-way house to electrification; lightweight diesel trains for secondary and branch services; and a smaller wagon fleet doing more work by the use of continuous brakes in conjunction with modernised terminals and marshalling yards. [1958 January 26, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 15:]

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”).
2. Doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, chukker, cyclus, kike, and wheel (see there for more). See: Middle English Nouns 'cicle', Ancient Greek Nouns 'κύκλος'.

Verbs referencing "cycle"

Danish Nouns cykel, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns sykkel, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns sykkel, Polish Nouns koło, Finnish Nouns sykli.