cycle

1. cycle (noun) — sense 1

Definition: An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.

Example: the cycle of the seasons, or of the year

2. cycle (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A complete rotation of anything.

3. cycle (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.

Example: electoral cycle    menstrual cycle    news cycle

4. cycle (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.

Example: When my wife and I heard a plaintive whinny from our laundry room the other day, we knew that our old dryer had cycled its last load.

5. cycle (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To turn power off and back on

Example: Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.

6. cycle (verb) — sense 6

Definition: 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

Example: They have their cycling game going tonight.