Reply #60: Really? So you're saying the word "cycle" refers to a woman's [View All]

[Kahuna]

menstrual cycle and that's all it could possibly mean? How stupid is that statement? According to the dictionary, it has no specific reference to a period. You're just making it up. I guess you can now take up your poutrage with the dictionary publishers because apparently, they believe the word to have the same meaning as moi.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cycle
cy⋅cle  /ˈsaɪkəl/ Show Spelled Pronunciation Show IPA noun, verb, -cled, -cling.
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–noun 1. any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.
2. a round of years or a recurring period of time, esp. one in which certain events or phenomena repeat themselves in the same order and at the same intervals.
3. any long period of years; age.
4. a bicycle, motorcycle, tricycle, etc.
5. a group of poems, dramas, prose narratives, songs etc., about a central theme, figure, or the like: the Arthurian cycle.
6. Physics. a. a sequence of changing states that, upon completion, produces a final state identical to the original one.
b. one of a succession of periodically recurring events.
c. a complete alteration in which a phenomenon attains a maximum and minimum value, returning to a final value equal to the original one.

7. Mathematics. a permutation of a set of elements that leaves the original cyclic order of the elements unchanged.
8. Computers. a. the smallest interval of time required to complete an operation in a computer.
b. a series of computer operations repeated as a unit.


–verb (used without object) 9. to ride or travel by bicycle, motorcycle, tricycle, etc.
10. to move or revolve in cycles; pass through cycles.

—Idiom11. hit for the cycle, Baseball. (of one player) to hit a single, double, triple, and home run in one game.