cycle vs succession

cycle

noun
  • A complete rotation of anything. 

  • One entire round in a circle or a spire. 

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

succession

noun
  • Rotation, as of crops. 

  • In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another. 

  • An act of following in sequence. 

  • A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order. 

  • A right to take possession. 

  • A race or series of descendants. 

  • A sequence of things in order. 

  • A passing of royal powers. 

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