{
    "term": "cycle",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "image": "data/images/ve/vehicles_cycles.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a bicycle or motorcycle",
            "sensetop": "on a cycleby cycle",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was riding his cycle home when he was hit by a lorry."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We went for a cycle ride on Sunday."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Lots of people arrived in cars or on cycles.",
                    "contextForm": "on a cycle"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They completed their journey by cycle.",
                    "contextForm": "by cycle"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Transport by car or lorry", "Sports: other sports"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["motor", "pedal"],
                "verb + cycle": ["ride"],
                "cycle + noun": ["ride", "helmet", "lane"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the fact of a series of events being repeated many times, always in the same order",
            "sensetop": "cycle (of something)cycle of somethingin a cycle",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Every business goes through cycles."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the cycle of the seasons",
                    "contextForm": "cycle of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The argument is that reprisals simply perpetuate the **cycle of violence**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They could not **break the cycle** of harvest failure, food shortage, price increase and misery."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Front runners generally establish themselves early in the **election cycle**.",
                    "contextForm": "in a cycle"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The percentage of companies being downgraded was typical for this point in the economic cycle."
                },
                {
                    "text": "different phases of the **cell cycle**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Life is a natural cycle, just like the changing seasons."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Male and female adults mate, the female lays eggs, and the cycle begins all over again."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The European market is simply going through an economic cycle."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The number of young produced per breeding cycle varies from species to species."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This cycle of events continually repeats itself."
                },
                {
                    "text": "To complete the cycle, oxygen is necessary."
                },
                {
                    "text": "at this point in the cycle"
                },
                {
                    "text": "caught up in a vicious cycle of bingeing and dieting"
                },
                {
                    "text": "part of the cycle of birth and death"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the 76-year solar cycle"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the annual cycle of church festivals"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money", "Biology"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["annual", "daily", "monthly"],
                "verb + cycle": ["follow", "go through", "complete"],
                "cycle + verb": ["begin again", "continue", "repeat (itself)"],
                "cycle + noun": ["length", "time"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the cycle", "per cycle"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a cycle of abuse, poverty, violence, etc.",
                    "part of the cycle (of something)"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a complete set or series, for example of movements in a machine",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "eight cycles per second"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the rinse cycle *(= in a washing machine)*"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Engineering"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["annual", "daily", "monthly"],
                "verb + cycle": ["follow", "go through", "complete"],
                "cycle + verb": ["begin again", "continue", "repeat (itself)"],
                "cycle + noun": ["length", "time"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the cycle", "per cycle"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a cycle of abuse, poverty, violence, etc.",
                    "part of the cycle (of something)"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsaɪkl/",
                "audio": "cy/cycle/cycle__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsaɪkl/",
                "audio": "cy/cycle/cycle__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin cyclus, from Greek kuklos ‘circle’."
}