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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
cycle
cycle AW [cycle cycles cycled cycling] noun, verb BrE [ˈsaɪkl] NAmE [ˈsaɪkl]
noun
1. a bicycle or motorcycle
• We went for a cycle ride on Sunday.
•a cycle route/track
see also ↑bike
2. the fact of a series of events being repeated many times, always in the same order
•the cycle of the seasons
• They could not break the cycle of harvest failure, food shortage, price increase and misery.
see also ↑life cycle
3. a complete set or series, for example of movements in a machine
•eight cycles per second
•the rinse cycle (= in a washing machine)
Word Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin cyclus, from Greek kuklos ‘circle’.
Thesaurus:
cycle noun C
•This cycle of events continually repeats itself.
pattern • • rhythm •
a/an regular/irregular cycle/pattern/rhythm
a natural cycle/rhythm
break a cycle/pattern/rhythm
the cycle/rhythm of the seasons
Cycle, pattern or rhythm? Pattern is used especially to talk about people's work and behaviour; cycle is used especially to talk about events in the natural world; rhythm is used especially to talk about how people's bodies adapt to changing conditions.
Example Bank:
•Cars are not allowed in the cycle lanes.
•Life is a natural cycle, just like the changing seasons.
•Male and female adults mate, the female lays eggs, and the cycle begins all over again.
•The European market is simply going through an economic cycle.
•The number of young produced per breeding cycle varies from species to species.
•They completed their journey by cycle.
•This cycle of events continually repeats itself.
•To complete the cycle, oxygen is necessary.
•We're going for a cycle ride this afternoon.
•a diagram of the water cycle
•at this point in the cycle
•caught up in a vicious cycle of bingeing and dieting
•lots of people in cars or on cycles
•part of the cycle of birth and death
•the 76-year solar cycle
•the annual cycle of church festivals
•the life cycle of the butterfly
•women with irregular menstrual cycles
•They could not break the cycle of harvest failure, food shortages, price increases and misery.
verb intransitive (+adv./prep.) (especially BrE)
to ride a bicycle; to travel by bicycle
• I usually cycle home through the park.
compare ↑bicycle, ↑bike
Verb forms: 
Word Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin cyclus, from Greek kuklos ‘circle’.
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