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English

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a bicycle
a bicycle in use
an electric bicycle in use

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European*dwís
Proto-Italic*dwis
Old Latinduis
Latinbisder.
Frenchbi-
Proto-Indo-European*kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European*kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greekκῠ́κλος(kŭ́klos)der.
Late Latincyclusder.
Middle French
Frenchcycle
Englishbicycle

    Borrowed fromFrenchbicycle (modernbicyclette), frombi-(“two”) +cycle(“cycle”). Bysurface analysis,bi- +‎cycle. First attested in English in 1868, and in French in 1847.

    (promiscuous woman): From double meaning ofride ("to transport oneself upon" vs. "to mount someone to have sex with them"). A communal bicycle would have many riders.

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    bicycle (pluralbicycles)

    2. Avehicle that has two primary wheels, one behind the other, a steering handle, and asaddleseat or seats and is usuallypropelled by the action of a rider’s feet uponpedals.
      Synonyms:(clipping)bike,pushbike,two-wheeler,(historical)velocipede;see alsoThesaurus:bicycle
      Hypernym:cycle
      • 1882, “Principle in Small Things”, inPopular Science Monthly, volume22, page274:
        In most English villages, as we are informed,bicycles are not allowed on the sidewalks; and the hand-books issued by English manufacturers ofbicycles caution their customers that it is a forbidden practice, while in many places bells have to be attached to thebicycles even when ridden in the streets.
    3. (by extension, sometimes proscribed) Any similar vehicle powered by human pedaling or steered with ahandlebar, regardless of the number of wheels.
      • 1980, United States. National Park Service,Trends, page40:
        The small, three-wheeledbicycle-type vehicle is probably the lowest-cost set of wheels for routine, in-park patrol use.
    4. A traveling block used on acable inskiddinglogs.
    5. The best possible hand inlowball.
    6. (British, Australia, New Zealand) Amotorbike.
    7. (vulgar slang, usually in compounds specifying a context) Aslut; apromiscuous woman.
      • 2002,Minette Walters,Fox Evil, Macmillan, pages162–3:
        ‘What sort of bullying does this sergeant go in for?’ ‘Character assassination,’ she said in a matter-of-fact tone that belied the very real difficulties it was causing her. ‘There’s a lot of whispering about slags and tarts behind my back and sniggers whenever I appear. Half of the men seem to think I’m a dyke who needs curing, the other half think I’m the platoonbicycle. [...]’
    8. (climbing) A stabilizing technique in which one foot is pushed down while the other is pulled up.
    9. (pokerslang) Thewheel: either the loweststraight (A-2-3-4-5) or the best lowhand inLowball orHigh-low poker.
    10. (organic chemistry) Abicyclic molecule.
    11. (biochemistry) Two interconnectedmetaboliccycles.
      • 2021, David L. Nelson, Michael M. Cox, Aaron A. Hoskins,Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, Macmillan Learning, page636:
        The fumarate produced in the argininosuccinase reaction is also an intermediate of the citric acid cycle. Thus, the cycles are, in principle, interconnected — in a process dubbed the “Krebsbicycle”.

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    vehicle
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    Verb

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    bicycle (third-person singular simple presentbicycles,present participlebicycling,simple past and past participlebicycled)

    1. (ambitransitive) Totravel orexercise using a bicycle.
    2. (television, historical, transitive) Tophysicallyship (a recordedprogramme) to another broadcasting entity.
      • 2002, Roger Phillips Smith,The Other Face of Public Television, page56:
        “Bicycling” defeated the possibility of topicality, a prime production habit of the network-trained production executives staffing the new entity.
      • 2014, Horace Newcomb,Encyclopedia of Television, page177:
        In turn, two-inch tapes of these could be “bicycled” from one place to another across the country, thereby altering and improving production economies.

    Translations

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    to ride a bicycle

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    Etymology

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      Frombi- +‎cycle.

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      Noun

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      bicycle m (pluralbicycles)

      1. bicycle
        Synonym:bicyclette

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