The difference between Cycle and Motorcycle
When used as nouns, cycle means an interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed, whereas motorcycle means an open-seated motor-powered vehicle with two wheels.
When used as verbs, cycle means to ride a bicycle or other cycle, whereas motorcycle means to motor around on a motorcycle.
check bellow for the other definitions of Cycle and Motorcycle
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Cycle as a noun:
An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
Examples:
"the cycle of the seasons, or of the year"
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Cycle as a noun:
A complete rotation of anything.
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Cycle as a noun:
A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
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Cycle as a noun:
The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
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Cycle as a noun (music):
In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class.
Examples:
"The interval cycle C4 consists of the pitch classes 0, 4 and 8; when starting on E, it is realised as the pitches E, G# and C."
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Cycle as a noun:
A series of poems, songs or other works of art.
Examples:
"The "Ring of the Nibelung" is a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner, the famous nineteenth-century German composer."
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Cycle as a noun:
A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
Examples:
"Put the washing in on a warm cycle."
"the spin cycle"
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Cycle as a noun:
A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels, such as a motorbike, motorcycle, motorized tricycle, or motortrike.
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Cycle as a noun (baseball):
A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
Examples:
"Jones hit for the cycle in the game."
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Cycle as a noun (graph theory):
A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
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Cycle as a noun (topology, algebraic topology):
A chain whose boundary is zero.
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Cycle as a noun:
An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
Examples:
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Cycle as a noun:
An age; a long period of time.
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Cycle as a noun:
An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
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Cycle as a noun (botany):
One entire round in a circle or a spire.
Examples:
"a cycle or set of leaves"
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Cycle as a verb:
To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
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Cycle as a verb:
To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
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Cycle as a verb (electronics):
To turn power off and back on
Examples:
"Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily."
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Cycle as a verb (ice hockey):
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
Examples:
"They have their cycling game going tonight."
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Motorcycle as a noun:
An open-seated motor-powered vehicle with two wheels.
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Motorcycle as a verb:
To motor around on a motorcycle; to ride.