“cycled” is a form of
cycle
/ˈsaɪ.kəl/ noun, verb
Forms cycles cycling cycled
- noun An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed. “the cycle of the seasons, or of the year”
- noun A complete rotation of anything.
- noun A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence. “electoral cycle menstrual cycle news cycle”
- noun The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
- noun A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy. “The Ring of the Nibelung is a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner.”
- noun A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device. “Put the washing in on a warm cycle.”
- noun (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game. “Jones hit for the cycle in the game.”
- noun (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
- verb To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
- verb (electronics) To turn power off and back on “Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.”
- 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 “They have their cycling game going tonight.”
- noun A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
- noun (specifically and now usually) A bicycle.
- verb To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
Synonyms
rhythm round hertz Hz cycle per second cycles/second cps oscillation bicycle bike wheel motorbike motorcycle pedal
Etymology
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).
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).
Webster’s 1913
- noun An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres. Milton.
- noun An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cucle of the seasons, or of the year.
- verb To pass through a cycle of changes; to recur in cycles. Tennyson.
- verb To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle.
Etymology [F. ycle, LL. cyclus, fr. Gr. cakra wheel, circle. See Wheel.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “cycle”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details