hit for the cycle

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cy⋅cle

[sahy-kuh

noun, verb, -cled, -cling.

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–noun

1.	any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.

2.	a round of years or a recurring period of time, esp. one in which certain events or phenomena repeat themselves in the same order and at the same intervals.

3.	any long period of years; age.

4.	a bicycle, motorcycle, tricycle, etc.

5.	a group of poems, dramas, prose narratives, songs etc., about a central theme, figure, or the like: the Arthurian cycle.

Physics.

a.	a sequence of changing states that, upon completion, produces a final state identical to the original one.

b.	one of a succession of periodically recurring events.

c.	a complete alteration in which a phenomenon attains a maximum and minimum value, returning to a final value equal to the original one.

7.	Mathematics. a permutation of a set of elements that leaves the original cyclic order of the elements unchanged.

Computers.

a.	the smallest interval of time required to complete an operation in a computer.

b.	a series of computer operations repeated as a unit.

–verb (used without object)

9.	to ride or travel by bicycle, motorcycle, tricycle, etc.

10.	to move or revolve in cycles; pass through cycles.

—Idiom

11.	hit for the cycle, Baseball. (of one player) to hit a single, double, triple, and home run in one game.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME cicle < LL cyclus < Gk kýklos cycle, circle, wheel, ring, disk, orb; see wheel

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Word Origin & History

cycle

1387, from L.L. cyclus, from Gk. kyklos "circle, wheel," from PIE *kwel-, *kwol- "to roll, to move around, wheel" (cf. Skt. cakram "circle, wheel," carati "he moves, wanders;" Avestan caraiti "applies himself," c'axra "chariot, wagon;" Gk. polos "a round axis" (PIE *kw- becomes Gk. p- before some vowels), polein "move around;" L. colere "to frequent, dwell in, to cultivate, move around," cultus "tended, cultivated," hence also "polished," colonus "husbandman, tenant farmer, settler, colonist;" Lith. kelias "a road, a way;" O.N. hvel, O.E. hweol "wheel;" O.Rus., Pol. kolo, Rus. koleso "a wheel"). The verb meaning "to ride a bicycle" is from 1883; cyclist in this sense is from 1882; cyclical is from 1817; cyclorama is from 1840.

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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: ²cycle
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Forms: cycled; cycling
: to undergo the estrous cycle cycling>

Medical Dictionary

cycle cy·cle (sī'kəl)
n.

An interval of time during which a characteristic, often regularly repeated event or sequence of events occurs.
A single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon.
A periodically repeated sequence of events.

Science Dictionary

cycle (sī'kəl) Pronunciation Key

A single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon. See also period.
A circular or whorled arrangement of flower parts such as those of petals or stamens.

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