Phrase Hound found 143 phrases and 100 compound words that contain cycle. The most common are listed below. Open cycle in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 143
- life cycleThe course of stages through which an organism passes from fertilized zygote until maturity, reproduction, and death.
- cell cycleThe life cycle of eukaryotic cells from a quiescent beginning, growth, duplication of DNA followed by mitosis and division.
- menstrual cycleThe recurring cycle of physiological changes in the uninseminated females of some animal species that is associated with reproductive fertility; especially the cycle in a human.
- business cycleA long-term fluctuation in economic activity between growth and recession.
- water cycleThe natural cycle of evaporation of water from the oceans etc, and subsequent condensation and precipitation as rain and snow
- cycle timeThe total elapsed time to complete an operation or set of operations.
- carbon cycleThe physical cycle of carbon through the Earth’s biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere that includes such processes as photosynthesis, decomposition, respiration and carbonification.
- duty cycleThe ratio between the amount of time in which the clock's signal is high and the clock's period.
- break the cycleTo act so as to end a repeating pattern of harmful or otherwise negative behavior.
- breaking the cyclepresent participle and gerund of break the cycle
- news cycleThe reporting of a particular media story, or news in general, from the first instance (breaking news) to the last, often including reporting on public and other reactions to the earlier reports, now especially via social media …
- clock cycleThe time between two adjacent pulses of the oscillator that regulates the tempo of the computer processor.
- vicious cycleAlternative form of vicious circle: A situation in which the response to one problem creates a chain of problems, each making it more difficult to solve the original one.
- cycle pathA path, segregated from other traffic, for the use of riders of bicycles
- Election cycle
- Development cycle
- Fuel Cycle
- solar cycleThe nearly periodic 11-year change in the Sun's activity, measured from a minimum of activity to the next.
- broke the cyclesimple past of break the cycle
- cycle rickshawA rickshaw, mostly used as taxi, with two wheels in the back for the carriage and one wheel for steering in the front (or sometimes vice versa), propelled by the action of a driver’s feet upon pedals.
- limit cycleA closed trajectory in phase space of a dynamical system having the property that at least one other trajectory spirals into it either as time approaches infinity or as time approaches minus-infinity.
- Epic CycleA collection of Ancient Greek epic poems, now mostly lost, telling the story of the Trojan War and its participants.
- four-cycleAny four-stroke cycle, such as the Otto cycle, for an internal combustion engine.
- love cycleA cyclical pattern to a love relationship.
- power-cycleTo turn a device off and then back on again, usually to restore proper function by forcing a malfunctioning or unresponsive device to reset or reinitialize, or as a step in troubleshooting the device.
Compound words 100
- motorcycleAn open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel, and having two (or sometimes three) wheels.
- cyclistA person who rides a cycle, especially a bicycle, or who habitually engages in cycling.
- unicycleA pedal cycle that only has one wheel.
- cyclocrossA form of bicycle racing consisting of many laps of a short course featuring pavement, wooded trails, grass, steep hills and obstacles and requiring the rider to quickly dismount, carry the bike whilst navigating the obstruction and …
- cyclerAnything with a cyclic (repetitious) behaviour. Something that cycles between different states.
- cyclaseAny enzyme that catalyzes the cyclization of a compound
- cyclewaycycle path, cycle lane
- cocycleA cochain that is in the kernel of a coboundary map.
- upcycleTo convert (waste materials, etc.) into new materials or products of higher quality and greater functionality.
- quadricycleA four-wheeled pedal cycle.