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CYCLING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The sport of traveling on a bicycle or motorcycle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("cycling" is a kind of...):
athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cycling"):
bicycling (riding a bicycle)
motorcycling (riding a motorcycle)
dune cycling (bicycling or motorcycling on sand dunes)
Derivation:
cycle (ride a bicycle)
cycle (ride a motorcycle)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb cycle
Context examples:
But after cycling and cycling and cycling, tens of millions of cycles, it breaks.
(Discovery may lead to osteoporosis treatment, National Science Foundation)
The team saw a shift in the genes tied to this nutrient cycling as temperatures differed across sites.
(From tropical to boreal ecosystems, temperature drives functioning, National Science Foundation)
NHEJ is operational throughout the cell cycle but may be more important during G1, prior to DNA replication, or in cells that are no longer cycling.
(Nonhomologous DNA End Joining, NCI Thesaurus)
In the colder periods, nitrogen dominated the atmosphere, raining down and cycling through the icy crust to collect in pools just below the surface.
(New Models Suggest Titan Lakes Are Explosion Craters, NASA)
Although these materials, known as niobium tungsten oxides, do not result in higher energy densities when used under typical cycling rates, they come into their own for fast charging applications.
(New class of materials could be used to make batteries that charge faster, University of Cambridge)
As a result, loxoribine induces cycling B cells to proliferate and differentiate non-specifically and recruit antigen-reactive B cells to undergo differentiation to antibody production, markedly amplifying the underlying response in the process.
(Loxoribine, NCI Thesaurus)
The cycling of CDK activity in the cell cycle regulates the two states of replication origins, the licensed state in G1-phase and the unlicensed state for the rest of the cell cycle.
(CDK Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
"This is a clear demonstration of a unique mechanism by which biological communities can alter the environment, with fundamental consequences for carbon cycling," Schade said.
(Scientists discover new mechanism for how soils store carbon, National Science Foundation)
CDK4 inhibitor P1446A-05 specifically inhibits CDK4-mediated G1-S phase transition, arresting cell cycling and inhibiting cancer cell growth.
(CDK4 Inhibitor P1446A-05, NCI Thesaurus)
The cycling of material between the ocean and ice shell could potentially provide sources of chemical energy that could sustain simple life forms.
(NASA Issues 'Remastered' View of Jupiter's Moon Europa, NASA)
