clout vs cycle

clout

noun
  • A home run. 

  • A clout nail. 

  • The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head. 

  • Influence or effectiveness, especially political. 

  • A blow with the hand. 

verb
  • To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout. 

  • To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole. 

  • To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree. 

  • To hit, especially with the fist. 

  • To join or patch clumsily. 

cycle

noun
  • A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game. 

  • One entire round in a circle or a spire. 

  • A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed. 

  • 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. 

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

  • A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels. 

  • A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy. 

  • An orderly list for a given time; a calendar. 

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

  • A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device. 

  • A chain whose boundary is zero. 

  • An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres. 

  • The members of the sequence formed by such a process. 

  • A discharge of a taser. 

  • A scheduled period of time of weeks or months wherein a performance-enhancing substance or, by extension, supplement is applied, to be followed by another one where it is not or the dosage is lower. 

  • One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage. 

  • A complete rotation of anything. 

  • An age; a long period of time. 

verb
  • 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 

  • To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle. 

  • To turn power off and back on 

  • To ride a bicycle or other cycle. 

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