Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
cycling |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Cycle, The act, art, or practice, of riding a cycle, esp. a bicycle or tricycle. |
cyclide |
noun |
A surface of the fourth degree, having certain special relations to spherical surfaces. The tore or anchor ring is one of the cyclides. |
cyclist |
noun |
A cycler. |
cycloid |
noun |
A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane., Of or pertaining to the Cycloidei., One of the Cycloidei. |
cyclone |
noun |
A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour. |
cyclops |
noun sing. & pl. |
One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna., A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda., A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc. |