Cycle
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To ride a bicycle or other cycle. To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle. To turn power off and back on 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
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed. A complete rotation of anything. A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence. A series of poems, songs or other works of art A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device. A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle; or, motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels, such as a motorbike, motorcycle, motorized tricycle, or motortrike. 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.
Example sentence: You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
Oscillation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: the act of oscillating or the state of being oscillateda regular periodic fluctuation in value about some meana single such cycle
Example sentence: We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years. It actually goes back a lot further than that, but the ice core records show a million years. So, nature has this normal oscillation within this zone, and all of a sudden, we're forty percent outside that zone.